The evening world. Newspaper, February 27, 1922, Page 10

DROWNS HISBABY | IN TUB 10 BRING WFETO SENSES ‘ | 4 Bear Through Life, Says Liddle. William Liddie, the nincteen-year- 4 husband and father who delib- ‘erately drowned his seven-month-old ‘son, William, in a bathtub In his mother’s home at No. 607 East 179th Street, the Bronx, yesterday, said * \to-day when arraigned in West Farms ‘Police Court that he committed the “ lerime to get even with his cighteen- ‘year-old wife, Margaret Corrigan * tLiddte. | “Our second wedding anniversary lis coming in a few days,"’ he sald. |“All during our marriage we fought * \mmd scrapped and it was mostly her {|fault. She'll always remember the ‘ baby and how he died and she'll be sorry to the end of her life.” Liddic was held without bail. His case will be presented to the Grand , Jury to-morrow. { The young couple separated a month ago, the wife taking the baby fo the home of her parents at No. 397 Willis Avenue, the Bronx. Liddle, lived at his mother's home. Yesterday he telephoned and asked her to bring the baby to his apartment for dinner. She refused but agreed to let him take the baby for a time, | and met him and handed it over. He sald later the idea of drowning the baby had come to him as he was rid- ing down to meot his wife. ‘Alone in the apartment, he put 1 pillow in the tlb, weighted it down with flatirons, turned on the water, gat tho baby on the pillow and left him to drown. Ho returned to his wife's home and told her he had drowned the baby, but she thought it ‘was a ruse to get her to return to his apartment, and wouldn't believe him. He met a policeman and told him, and the incredulous policeman ad- vised him to “tell them at the Tre- mont Station” about it. He next met his wife's brothers, Edward and The- _ Gore Corrigan, and they did not be- Heve him, but agreed to return home , With him, They found the body in the bathtub. | Doctors and police agreed it Is a strange case. Liddle is a nice loo! © tng, well reared youth, a good neigh- . borhood boy who had never been in . real trouble. He is 6 feet 1 Inch tall, and was a railroad messenger when he marvied. He never seemed to get @ man’s job, was sick from influenza a great deal, and idleness led to dis- agreements with his girl wife and her * family. After Liddle had been booked on a charge of homicide he talked freely. At times tears came from his eyes. , There are no outward signs of in- | sanity. When a detective asked him why he didn’t commit suicide he replied: “] thought (a leave that for the electric chair. I fully ex electrocuted. “Are you sorry you did it’ “No, I'd do it again if Bill was alive «now. I loved him better than any * one in the world and I wanted him all for myself. I've been thinking for a ) month {t would be a good thing to get rid of myself. I wanted to be sure he went, too. — . FREED OF ALL BLAME IN BOMB EXPLOSION Woolnough Exonerated of Ma- Hectous Mischief and Arson Charges NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., Feb. 27.— Ralph Woolonugh, charged with having get a bomb which damaged the house In which he lived at Woodbridge Ave- nue, Highland Park, last week, was freed of charges of malicious mischief ..and arson to-day and exonerated from * all blame. Salvatore Van Chere, owner of the * house until he sold it six weeks ago to Licausi, was arrested on a mischief and held 1 W. Larason of Highland Park in 0 for the Middle~ wex County Grand Jury. It is alleged ; that Van Chere admitted he bought a quantity of dynamite two weeks ago, ‘Wanted to Give Her Cross to, HRSHFELD BEGNS CRUSADE TD REVS AMERICAN HSTRY (Continued From First Page.) “Oh, be a sport Ike Washington. © a chance," pleaded Commis er Hirshfield, “I'd like to hear “I shall hand jt to the Commis- sioner after the hearing,’ said Mr. Wakeman, smiling his refusal, and went on to say that the story of the ‘cherry tree ought to be amended to show that While Washington's father forgave George for chopping down the tree he licked him afterward for refusing to make the tree into kin- dings. “Besides, Washington could lie,” said Mr, Wakeman. , ‘We have his letter saying that when he was cam- paigning in New Jersey the mosqui- toes were so viclous and so large the: bit through his heavy riding boots.” “Well, now,” interrupted Mr. Hirsh- fleld, “I have been in Now Jersey and I know the mosquitoes over there and Tam not sure Washington led about them.” Finally, the children ought to know, said Mr. Wakeman, that the surgeons killed Washington by bleeding him excessively. “Coming from Wall Strect,” ob- served the Commisstoner, “You ought to be an authority on bleeding people.” Mr. Wakeman, waving the insinu- ation aside, said that John Hancock was a smuggler in spite of all de- nials. His ship, the Liberty, came to port with a cargo of finc wine. The Port Officer went aboard and sompled this wine with the master and his friends. He told Hanccek the wine could not be landed because it was not on the manifest—at least not with his consent. So they locked him in a stateroom and took it ashore anyway. “Nowadays,” said Mr. Hirshfield, “one who brings ashore a single case feels that he has deserved the honor of the community. Thomas Payne outlived his wis- dom, sald Mr, Wakeman, and added, “It is a wise man who knows when to die.” “It is a wiser man," said Mr. Hirshfield cheerily, ‘‘who knows when he is dead, There's a lot of them around who are dead and don't know it.” In a discussion of the Boston Tea Party, Mr. Hirshfield said he under- stood the raiders of the tea ships were rebelling against the Port Au- thority for levying a tax without con- eent of the citizens, * just as Outei bridge and Al Smith and Lewis H. Pounds are imposing a tax on the peo- ple of New York without their con- sent."” : Mr. Wakeman said that the story of Paul Revere had been tremendous- ly exaggerated and that the Revolu- tion began in New York with a bat- tle three months before the battle of Golden Hill in Massachusetts. At the close of the hearing, which was adjourned subject to the call of Mr. Hirshfield, there was a mixup in the hall Setween Thomas P. Tuite, a, Civil War veteran and President of the Star-Spangled Banner Associa- tion, and Francis Harrison Kennicut, an attorney residing at the University Club, which resulted in blows and in- terference by spectators and police. Mr. Kennicutt had said the Revo- lutionary War was a civil war be- tween Englishmen. He had been de. claured a pro-British propagandist by Tuite. In tHe hall Tuite says Kenni- cutt called him a liar, The next thing any one knew he had landed on the attorney and the attorney had come back with a wallop. Before they could mix it up any @oro the interference came and they left the building. ——<$<$<_____ AUTO HITS “L” PILLAR, THROWING POLICEMAN His Shoulder Dislocated in Try- ing to Stop Erratic Driver. When Policeman Christian F, Streck, twenty-seven, saw ar automobile zig- zagging through Atlantic Avenue be- tween fichnectady and Troy Avenues, Brooklyn, early to-day, he jumped on the running board to stop the driver, At Troy Avenue the car hit an cle- vated pillar and Streck was thrown off and his left shoulder dislocated. The driver, who was arrested, said he was John J. Webb of No. 435 63d Strept, |Brooklyn, After being attended by an jambulance surgeon, Streck was sent to his home, No. 389 Knickerbocker Ave- but denied he blew up the house. nue, Ridgewood, Look for the Announcement of the PRIMROSE SILK STORES Mc, IN THE WEDNESDAY EVENING PAPERS SOVIET TO CONCEDE ALL IF IT GETS LOAN Famine So Serious Lenine Regime Threatened Unless Huge Oredit Is Granted. MOSCOW, Feb. 27 (Ansociated Press).—The Soviet delegation to Genoa will carry instructions to grant all concessions demanded, a big reconstruction loan can be ob- tained. If this loan cannot be ar- ranged, then, from the Russian point of view, the conference has only the| moral value of recognition the} present Government. The basic reason for this attitude in the famine, The famine is now slowly but surely encroaching on and encircling the Soviet stronghold— Moscow—and representatives from every part of Russia, sent to get food, report there in less and less to be had, that beginning with March tne favored Red Army will begin to starve and that each succeeding month will be worse, until July, when harvests, more or less scant, may re- lteve the situation ‘The Soviet Governn.cnt’s fears ure indicated in another cirection. For or provided | copicaretgh teneehseeetnnrianmatenrembermeyesnipsoen ont THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1922. been thrown overboard, The recent conference of Far Eustern peoples, called by the Third Internationale to stimulate Communism in Japan, China ond elsewhere, was given but the xcantlest attention in Moscow. | ‘The delegates were poorly housed ait | turned over to Foreign Office clerk: | oe |IRISH BILL INSISTS ON EARLY ELECTION Amendment in Parliament Due to British Disquietude Over Fac- tional Differences. State Bill will be amended so as to provide for elections in Ireland with- in four months, Winston Churchill, Minister for the Colonies, announced in the House of Commons this after- noon. This change in the original bill pro- viding for the Free State, which did not specify when the election should be held, was made, it is understood, following conferences between Arthur Griffiths and Churchill yesterday, at which the British disquietude over the three months’ adjournment of the Ard Fheis was emphasized. The Brit ish Government is anxious to see the Irish started on their new Free State the time its entire Oriental policy har ©The American T: you can as soon as possible. LONDON, Feb. 27.—The Irish Free | SON AIDS MOTHER IN GETTING DIVORCE Testifies He Accompanied Detectives to Apartment Where They Found | His Father, Bank Auditor. | Supreme Court Justice Platt in |Special Term at White [liins to-day |granted an interlocutory decres of divorce to Mrs. Ethel @ Ensell of Mount Vernon, against Edwin Hay- ward Ensell, an auditor In the Chase National Bank of Manhattan, princi- pally upon the testimony of thetr son, Edwin Schuyler Ensell, nineteen years old. Charles W. Walter, No. 283 Broad- way, Manhattan, who appeared for Mrs. Ensell, produced an agreement whereby Mr, Ensell agreed to give his wife $5,000 in securities in lieu of alimony. They were married in| | Brooklyn on Oct. 18, 1901. William | Vonfricken, an investigator, testified | that on several occasions he had trailed Ensell from an apartment in| Brooklyn with a young woman. He said she went to a beauty parlor at Woodcliffe, N. J.. each morning. The son testified that he accompanied three detectives to the Brooklyn apart- ment on Jan. 21 last, and there they found his father with the co-respon- dent. Lawyer Walter said she was a manicurist at Woodcliffe. Justice Platt annulled the marriage FLAPPER BETTER THAN REFO SAYS EDUCATOR “Worse Things Than Dance, Rolled Hose and Short Skirts,” Declares Prof. F. M. Hunter. CHICAGO, Feb, 27. The reformer, not tho flapper, fs the peril of public cording to Prof. Hunter, attending the the Superintendence schools, ac- Frank M. meeting of Department of the National Education Asso- elation here. “There are the modern qvorse things than dance, rolled hose, short dresses and galoshes. “T would rather see day garbed in flapper the girl to- styles than in accordance with prudish ideas of radical reformers. “Cigarette smoking should be discouraged, but many, gitls can go right into their mother's boudoir and find several cigar- ette stubs. of Mrs. Amelia La Diana to Antonia | La Diana because at the time of thetr| marriage in Yonkers on June 16, 1916, | she was only seventeen Gentlemen In a new package that fits the pocket— At a price that fits the pocket-book— The same unmatched blend of TURKISH, VIRGINIA and. 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