The evening world. Newspaper, February 24, 1922, Page 1

0, } To-Night’s Weather—FAIR, VOL. LXII. NO. 21,981—DAILY. Copyright (N York orentey Pubiiehing: Companys 1 J More Pailereh in “Bucket Shop WALL ST. FEARS © MIRS. LILLIAN DUKE LOSES | ms SM One of ive ral heoustes Flood of Withdrawals Over- of Broker Lindsay. whelms Concerns Without i Large Liquid Assets. ACCUSES BROKER OF GETTING $375,000 FROM HER BY FRAUD OTHERS FILE CHARGES.| NONE ON BIG ’CHANGE. Says Broker Disappeared With) © —— Fortune She Intrusted to His Care. Five More Indictments Looked for as Result of Investiga- | ‘ Duke, former wife) tion by Banton. qasitayropageal| — 5,000 in cash | were fraudu Alfred E. | has dis | Mrs. of Tame Lillian N B. Duke, alleges that $8: $50,000 in jewelry lently obtained from her by Lindsay, she declares, peared with them With the failure of twelve broker- Slt age houses in the last week, five ing to the wall yesterday after suspension of the firm of who, Burke, the second member of the irom ‘papers ate’ han ntedat Ken fatter firm having been Treasurer of Rockland County, it is suspected | fF the United States for clit ee ney at teunt $360.-| causes thousands of those who "ave C50 ¢rym more than a dozen welll accounts with Wall Street stoc « nown eoclety women. ‘They are un | fe firms to fear (hat euler do tood to have luld their complaints \ meee are to follow before District Attorney Banton here. | § | This way the belief expressed in | One actress is sald to accuse Lind- say of obtaining her entire fortune of $56,000. On Monday, Supreme Court | Miétice Lijur granted an attachment | $30,000 to Mrs. Elbaabeth, geraiota,: + widow, against “Lindsay, ‘ho she claimed had defrauded her out of that amount and was a fugitive. ‘The Lindsay estate at South Nyack, one of the finest show places on the some West shore of the Hudson, hus been ¢ seized by Sheriff Brown of Rockiand County, and an armed guard is kept over the $20,000 valuables there, The house furnishings may be worth double that amount, according to the Sheriff, who had to breuk in when he authority of the Wall Streét to-da Recent cxposure of operations has shaken ¢ of customers, and num Dave been. withdeawn ite @istrict. This wav udded .o the plexity of the situation and is likely) to make pre ious the continuation of the business of many smaller con- cerns While there had se mystery as to the Louis M. Kardos jr., head of the Kardos & Burke firm, it was stated this afternoon by Arthur L. I torney for the house, that the young man would be present later in the day bucket shop Mrs LAN B.DvUKE. FURS STILLMAN GAVE TO ACTRESS FOR XMAS STOLEN ver emed to be whereabouts took charge under at a conference ut Ross's office, No. | 206 Broadway, with Robert P. Steph. ae, ' \ See emets Mrs. Juke hus suffered a nervous euson, Federal receiver of the firm, Rantvica Later ; ee eee of the frm: | breakdown because of the loss of her Beatrice Keller, Anna Held’s been in communication with Chicago, Peonal fortune, according to her’ Fencing Girl, Has 2 Men attorneys for Kardos's father in: the | @*¥ers) Balliman & Groh, No. 85 and Wi a ted matter of the elder mun's aid in his Nassau Street, and {9 In seclusion. and oman’ Arrested, 5 Fie) iW Jes filling pupers restraining Lind. os n’s predicament. He would not us . we . disclose the result of the communi. *#¥ and his wife from selling or mort- Beatrice Keller of No. 336 West ordi guging their home, she has filed suit 95th Street, an actress who was with ‘here if likelihood that wot less '@ recover the money and jewelry, | Anna Held as the fencing girl some than five indictments will be found, Mrs. Duke alleges she firat guve| Years a0, was the complainant, to- to-day or to-morrow as a result of| Lindsay. w broker, $80,000 to buy the | day in the West Side Court against South Nyack estate und later $300,000/tWo men and a woman found with a the District Attorney's investigation 5 for investment on her account. She| fur cape and muff stolen from ‘her sertain stock selling houses. So | ms at OG Serkain etek “selling ‘kot. SYS she learned part of the $80,000 | “partment on Feb. 2, The cape and far twenty indictments against bucket Uday crrentnraerny OSH) shop brokers are reported found wus used to improve the estate, but |™Uff, which she values a ,500, were th ee ne jury. Thirty b investi. | Si" could never leurn what became of/ gift from James A. Stillman, the the rest of the money. She said Lind.| banker, as a Christmas present two gations are in progress and up to ie a tae to-day there have becn six arreate, |S) Tebresonted to her he knew Percy | 78krs 8% ie In addition to the wraps Miss Keller Rockefeller and George F. Baker, was connected with them in buying und| told court officers a pair of suede slip- | sclling on the Stock Exchange, and | pers had been stolen. In one of the conferred with them every night rela-| sijo5ers she | fi sgl . said sh . as known, had been under the Dis-| tive to the next day's operations, She 2 ‘4 a he had stuffed & says she has learned he did not even|#!f dozen letters from Mr. Stillman, Bick (Attorney's) investigetion, | know Mr. Rockefeller or Mr, Baker, | thinking that would ve a good place The only complaint before the Dis- | tousesp thems trict Attorney involving these frms| REJECT SALES TAX | None of the firms that failed yester- ti: had membership in the New York Btock Exchange and only one 80 fu w. inst Ruskay & Co, from In response to an advertisement as one aga’ tuskay . fr offering a reward of $200 and no Fe ee ia said ms haa ial IN SUB,COMMITTER| iaite © ferard 9¢ 4200 and no $985 for stock never delivered, ‘The ————— jfura louise Weldman, sixteen, a Ruskay concern, like Kardos & Burke, | (nly 3 Out of 8 Members Said to PeeHGRe ger iar A a Riverside had offices in other large cities, and partment, and’ ving, Bf No. Favor Means of Raising Bonus. WASHINGTON, 1420 Boston Road, and Mrs. Florence Denker, wife of a chauffeur of No. 121 West 95th Street, called last night nd asked her to describe the furs thousands of investors throughout the country are hard hit by its failure. Feb, 24,—A pro-| RUSKAY & On HAVE 815,000 18 posal to finance the soldiers’ bonus by| Sh@ did and they produced a dress BOSTON, p suit case with the furs and asked| BOSTON, Feb, 24.—Mark Hyman sales tax ts understood to have been sor the 9900, Miss Keller telephoned | New York, eiver for SS. Ruskay | "jected to-day by the special sub-|/the police and Detectives Donnelly & Company, was appointed to-day an-|commuittee of the Republican members!and Davis arrested the two. cillary receiver for the firm in this Of the House Ways and Means Com-| Mrs, Denker said she obtained the Htate, ‘The appointment wae made on{ Mt furs through her husband from a! Formania petition: ROCK ako proposition was said to have|man she did not know. The husband| the firm hb property including | been supported by only, three mem-| said he met the man on the street| securities in trust, valued at $15,000. l vers; Represe ives Longworth of} offering the furs for sale and as his! ao — |¢ Watson ‘ania and| wife wanted them. bought them. The | Bacharach of New | with five | three were held for examination March 3 in $1,000. | against it, It is understood that the | Miss Keller was mentioned as a pos-! | | proposal will be brought up again at a meeting of all of the majority mem- ADVERTISEMENTS sible witness in the Stillman case and bers of the Ways and Means Com-| 1s said to have had interviews with for the mittee, his attorneys, | eet, —_____ Sunda W rid MUST PAY FOR SUNK BY| LANDIS REINSTATES FLETOHER., y o | GERMANS, PHILADELPHIA, Feb. %4. — Art| Classified Secti The judgment for $778,854 awarded | Fletcher, former shortstop and captain ROD Five Gosni Kaisha Yamamoto Sohonton jot the Philadelphia National League against the France and Canada Steam-| team, who was out of the game last Should be in ship Company was to-day confirmed by| season, has been retnstated by Judge | the Appellate Division of the Supreme | Lan¢ is, according Court The defendan who sub-leased | ceived to-day by President Baker. Mr from the plaintiff a steamship belonging, Baker said he would get in touch with | to the Japanese Government, now must Fletcher imme diately and hoped that he pay the value thereof becaure the vessel | would be able to go South with the was sunk by a German submarine, |team March 7. to information re | The World Office To-Day NEW YORK, “FRIDAY, ‘FEBRUARY 24, ‘Little i |Strojohann and O'Leary, 1922. Post Office BOY, I], ADMITS GREAT BRITAIN’S MALYS GIVE Cie eu SY STH A RESISTING HOLDUP ssn tac <> PRINCETON MAN, oe | mony and King and Queen Police Arrest Youth’Who Is Give Another Reception iy te ing ray nensse| BELEVED SINGLE Othe Robberies, © |TO BE STYLE PAGEANT. “y SHOT DURING BATTLE. | Women Announce Gorgeous Gowns for Bridal, Mrs. ek SUED FOR DIVORCE | —— | | Wife, LONDON, Feb 24.—Among the wedding presents tor Princess Mary |ia w magnificent string of pearls from: | Louis Gardella, seventeen, No. 9) women of the British Empires, bear- |Henry Street, was arrested in bed ‘ing the nume of Mary. They sub. morning by Detectives Kent, | seribea 340.000, and half of this was 10 an-| donated to a Girl Guide's Training Children Attempt Hold Robber as He Runs From Store. Naming Woman, Says He Regarded Marriage as Boyish Prank, Mrs Ine was married to a Princeton freshman, Arthur Donald Bowman, Beatrice sowman, who | this in Janua nounced they had obtained |\ym him Home. It is not known as yet how|/1920, he being now a juntor in the confession that he shot d killed) muny Marys subscribed, junlversity applied to-day to Special Demosthenes Santus at 8 0’ ock last Princess Mary's bridesmaids re-| Master Richard Stockton at Newark, night in an attempt to re him in| hearsed at Westminster Abbey, with N. J. for a divoree on statutory his jewelry store at No. 2° Madison | Lady John Mulholland, lady in wait- | grounds Street. ing to the Princess, playing the part | The petitioner, who is twenty-four ‘The detectives said he hav) ulso con-| of the bride. They spent un hour! years old, a year older than her hus- essed three other robberies ,and they | nding out where to stand and whut| band, was formerly Miss Greene, her hom. 1 West 83d Street testimony being at No. According to her his family knows nothing of his mar- riage. ‘The ceremony w at Princeton Jan. 17, Rey. Beach of the terian Churen, * ‘ “We were married on the the Mrs added that an investigatio’ w:s be-| to do. | ing made of his possible ‘.2,ection! Another brilliant wedding reception with a fourth, in which Max G.sen, {Was held at Buckinghum Palace, Pre- 286 Kast Tenth | Mier Lloyd Gebdrge and Marquis Cur. Green's widow | Zon took occaston to present privately ‘and Informally to Princess Mary the gift of the Cabinet Ministers—three beautiful pieces of untique silver. Princess Mary expressed her thanks. | to-day, is performed 1920, the shy - a tobacconist at No. Street, was kjlled. will be asked if she can Identify the, prisoner Santus was confronted in his store, last night by a man with a gun, The| by Sylvester spur of moment," Bowman — testi two grappled and two shots were; ‘The King and Queen received the) fied. ‘And both of us have regretted fired. At the front door, as Santus/ guests in the great white and gold|it ever since. 1 didn't see much of fell dead, the slayer broke away from) ballroom, which, with its crimson bro-|my husband after marris He was two little girls, who were trying to|cade paneled walls hung with bro- | just a college boy and seemed to con hold him, and escaped. As he fled he! traits of former Kings, made a beau-/| sider our marriage a prank or a joke. was heard to shout to somebody in the} tiful background for so distinguished, It didn't restiseriously on his mind, gathering crowd: an assemblage. ‘The rich gowns of| His family doesn't know yet of our “Tell my brother."* | brocade or shimmering satin, trimmed | mar I have no immediate rela The detectives who arrested him| with rare old lace or fine hand em-| tiv quote him as having made the fol-| proidery, magnificent diamond tiaras! he evidence on which Mrs. Bow. lowing statement: and flashing jewels and uniforms of! man petitioned for divorce was given “T went into the store to stick the| every description blended in a scene Miss Helen Plechner of No, 9 man up. He showed fight and we] which will long linger in the memory| Park Avenue, this city, who stated struggled over the place. My revol-|of those present. More thun 1,000| that on Oct 12, 1921, she saw Bow ver went off twice. The first bullet} guests filled the ballroom and picture} man and an unnamed woman enter hit me in the left leg. I don't know! gallery and moved through the capu-| the Hotel Algonquin, where Bowman where the second struck. I ran home| ejgys corridors. | registered for both as man and wife and found my mother, I wouldn't) Reports circulated voth in this} The case was not defended let her call a doctor because 1 knew} country and in the United States | ——— 12 DEAD IN STORM THAT SWEPT WEST the cops would be looking for reports from any doctor that treated a bullet that Queen Mother Alexandra seriously {ll are untrue, it was de-| was wound. So my wound hasn't been! cared at Marlborough House, her attended. My mother called « taxi] residence this mornlug. On the con- for me and took me to the home ofliicy, t was sald, sie is enjoying/Property Damage Put at Millions my aunt, Mary Gardella, No. 109) sooq pealth —Wolves Driven Into Mon First Avenue, and 1 was in bed there!” ging George and Queen Mary to dena row all night." day entertained members of the ya!) AGO, Fen. o4—t wee The detectives say thal before I6@V-lpousehold, It was a private party a0); rth west to-day was begin ing his mother's home he Inirned DiS] nonor of the Princess | ng to recover Ms Circulation Books Open to Kisii Entered as Second-Class Matter WELS IN FAKE ROBBERY FO 9 To- Morrow's Weather—FAIR, New York, GEMS LOSTIN FOUND IN FRIEN WOMAN WHO ADMITS HOLDUP AND THEFT OF GEMS WAS FAKE MRS 4 SARAH ROBERTSON GERMS IN MILK COMMUNICABLE TC | High as 70 Per C Cent. Tubercue in Children D ived From Bovine Bacilli. INDIANAPOLIS, “eb. 2 tuberculosis losis Bo to an is communicable the human family, according to exact ex- permental results obtained by a num- ber of noted physicians not only in this country but in England and Seot- land Dr, 1. © Kigih +t the veterinary department of Pure University, In speaking before the a nual nesting of the Indiana Tubereu- Josis Assogiation. ‘Too small a num ber of people realize that tuberculosi may be contracted by a human bony declared : : aa is i |Somewhat from the blizzard which ap and a pair of trouse goth Cadiea who willie eucetel et the f ibe especially a child—drinking milk stove and tried to burn a cout also sent springtime temperatures to zerol from a cow suffering with tuberca because there was a bullet hole in it.) wedding in Westminster Abbey haveland below and scuttered heavy falls| losis,’ ey vi n house . wey pial Pentair ; oes furnished the press with detuils of|of ‘snow and sleet over a wide area] Dr Kigin presented reports from wir oer eo etew ed aver el their costumes. It is evident that the! from Montana, tie Dakotas, Minne. | *eVeral noted physicians showing thar brother John, twenty, on a charge | . Roney found from ten to seventy per of possessing it. wedding will be one of the most mag-| sota and Wisconsin down into the] cent their ‘tubeleulokia ‘ew Louis is alleged to have confessed] nificent fashion pageants in history.! northern part of ‘tT Arkansas} umong children derived from the bo holdups st No. 101 Monroe Street,| tiue and silver are the most popular{and Oklahoma. vine bacilli, Some rank as high us © NG A Haney Birestend roles 13 Las colors, Velvet wraps, plume-trimmed) The a orbtiwunt where the storm} per cent. and the uge con an (Stkaat, . o have | was greatest, ace ; to despatches | siderably above half, showin, clu- An ate ed toques will predo erably above half, rhowing conclu Identified in connection with the last] hats and draped toques will predom~) eosivcg here, reported a death toll| sively that tuberculosie In cattle tre one. | finate jot twelve and millions of ‘/oilars| quently is transmitted, to huma: The police say he has served 4) Mrs, George Harvey, wife of the damage to prop beings through the urinking of mii term in the Cathollo Protecto: American Ambassador, will wear a| Ip the Deep Crevk and Millegan| ¢rom infected animu's, he declared of Mont i) Inspector Coughlin sald he : : s | sections Ream Ganisiinin chute, Worth gown of soft brown crepo em. | G°elons Of Montana wolves in the boy had said the pre broidered with silk, and a velvet cloak | snow to populated 1 at robberies was less than § with a satin broche. |tacked domestic animals Seventy he got his revolver th 1 | head of cattle Ww: ted killed at zine advertisement. lone point When the questioning was over the] PRESIDENT BUYS | = youth was taken to Bellevue Hospital BLUEBEARD LANDRU to have his wound treated KENTUCKY BRED i aie SADDLE HORSE)! MUST DIE TO-MORROW 102,000 QUARTS OF RYE ON SEIZED SCHOONER | j{arbel Sold to Harding by Hluvey 4 a 8,000 More Been Taken Of Firestone, Akron Tire Manu Henri Bri el at Salem. facturer. Gambais.* will on th BOSTON, Feb, 24,—The WASHINGTON uillotine at Ver break to Feb, 24 | schooner Grace and Ruby, whirl rrow, it bou has selzed by the Revenue Cutter Tampa President Harding j mare off Baker's Island, is the mother ship ew riding horse from Harvey President Mille nthe of the small launch from wi on Pirestone, Akron tire manufac duy th ft : worth of Mquor was seized turer vieted man’ customs officials declared t The hofwe, a Kent Vandals artes iaeret A search of the veawel revealed that] sorrel named Hi Adi) ‘tan eeaninh rae tt the rye whiskey on board was of the by President Har an xame brand which was selaed at Sulem.| ser at Henry Ford's camp int . —— customs officers sald. The schooner’®| Qe ng pile eed ME WORLD rise original cargo contained about 110,100] Maryland hills. It was the first ibaee, CW i Quarts of rye, it was said, and at lcast| horse the President had ridden In $,000 quarts were seized at Salem, twenty years, Dr. Kigin added that ‘unless a un fled effort is made to stamp out thi fisease its final erauenton is impos: ble — EARL WINS DIVORCE, NAMING ANOTHER ONE FAKE ‘ROBBERY’ _ STAGED BY MRS, ROBERTSO D'S HOME HERE pea a Located in Sugar Bowl in China Closet After “Victim” Had Made a Confession and Authorized Their Surrender. “I Have no Symbathy for Her,” Says Mrs. Pelletreau, In.Whose House the Jewels Were Hidden. Owner Got Insurance After Theft Year Ago of Gems of Same Description as Those Found Here, Police Say. The jewelry of Mrs. Sarah L. Rob ertson now in the possession of ce ard Luisi of Lloyd's and Detectivé Lediard of Deal Beach, N. J., which they found last night in the closet of the apartment of Mrs, Mt ertson’s friend, Mrs. Florence Pell treau of No. 226 West 86th Street, by following the directions given to | them in a confession made by Mrs. Robertson, will be subjected to « careful examination to-day. At various times Mrs. Rober’ | son has referred casually to the jit 48 worth from $50,000 to $72,000 whey) discussing her resources with persons with whom she has had business rela tions at the Beach HUMAN FAMILY |vAtue TO PLAY BIG PART IN CONSPIRACY CHARGES. The actual worth of the jew will important ring on the consplracy charges which are now pending against Mrs. Robertson, Soni the telegraph cyerator go- between, and John Bailey, who acted as the robber, It may also be of in- to the Agricultural American Insurance Company, which is under= a burglary loss of Robertson last year that she was of jewelry describedt actly like those found in Mrs Pelletreau's apartment. At that time claiin of loss based invasion of burglars into the home of a relative in Colum~ y have an be Gasn, terest stood to have paid $10,000 to Mrs her st on nent robbed of as she presented a on a spectacular Indiseret Vroved Against Lady Catheart ta Londo | LONDON, Feb. 24 (Associated Press). | The Karl of Cathcart to-day was| ving his mar-| art upon proof Indincretions with | The sult was un-| uni a) | ser of Capetown Mow of apr, Del rf sofa 2 1 Hal n Cornelia Bradley Ma tin. ter of the late Bradley bus. The brokers in the Ohio insurance transaction were Joseph Morgan and Robert Maltbie, the same men who vcted in her behalf in getting the Lioyds policy American burglary insurance companies always ask at applicant for insurance whether a previous loss has been suffered. Lioyds, a British institution, does not exact this Information, und neither Mrs, Robertson, Maltbie nor Morgan volunteered it, Mr. Luist said, though Morgan admitted after Mrs, Robert. son's arrest he had acted for her in collecting the claim a year ag Mrs. Pelletreau was told by the in. vestigators that in tne course of ber confession Mrs. Robertson had said it was her intention to arrange wit’ real robbers to steal Mrs. Pette- treau’s jewelry on which the wido carries $100,000 insurance. “So that was why," they 1 Mrs. Pelletreau a» suying, woman was always ng me if f kept my Jewelry in vo safe place and | where. She couldn't leave the subs ject alone." It became known to-day that Inve tigator Luisi of Lloyd's did not have to wait for any information from Deal to rouse his suspicions regarding the genuineness of the Deal robbery story. Triday hefore the robbery Mr. Luisi met a business acquaintance, a jew- er, who told kim of the visit that y of “a Mrs. Robinson of Deal, whe wanted him to appraise $15,000 worth of jewelry at $55,000 because she had bi | ] } | | ] |