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2 arrested five times, Including his pres- ent st, and Patrick three times John jas arrested four times for grand tarceny, ‘The last time was in ’ December and at that time he was out on bal on a grand larceny charge @ating from last July. The charee stil) pending. Patrick was arrested fn 1916 and in 1921 on grand larceny charges and discharged each time Crone was shot as an innocent by stander in « thief chase. The autopsy to-day showed that the bullet was of .B8-calibre with a steel jacket. It have been fired from a police i . aittometic or revbiver, It entered) Robbers Escape With Payroll Crone’s left breast about an inch and] ; fn . : t halt from the median une, pierced| in Wine-Colorad Car—State the aorta, passed through the right tae |, Sui lung and lodged in the shoulder Police in Pursuit. Crone was on his way to the Grand ~ = *| Central Terminal to join his wife q She watted beyond the ‘ appointed hour and then began to hear reports of a shooting and the name of ber jusband. She went to the East Sist Street Station and learned that he ‘was the victim. J. D, Osborn, a Princeton student, drove his car with a fellow student to || New York tast night and they were dining at the Biltmore. The car was parked in 434 Street west of Madison Avenue. Policeman John Duffy of the East Gist Street station saw two men take a tire off the rear of the Osborn oe toward Madison Ave-1 16 armed, and John Meehan, a clerk, i unarmed, drew the money from a bank t nasties ee eu aoicsaas {ft by| three blocks away from the factory. prearrangement. The stolen tire was] 00 their return toward the plant, two hurled into {t amd the car sped on.| well dressed young men, who had Dutt; pulled his revolver and|been standing close to the abutment nog ran har the of the bridge which carries the New | One shot was fired from Haven Raliroad tracks over North } Duffy then started after the two] Main Street, stepped forward with thieves who had tried to get into] revolvers drawn and stopped them. the car as it passed but had been pre-| The thieves ordered the employers wented by the aprearance of Duffy. |to face the wall and, while one dis- Two men ran toward Fifth AvenueJarmed Meyers, the other, covering fm 43a Street with Duffy firing into] Mechan, took the bag containing the ‘the air as he closed up the gap be-|money. Immediately the thieves ran tween them. Dennis Ryan, a uni-|to the waiting limousine and in an | formed private watchman, on patrol|instant had sped away. in the block, joined Duffy, both men} All that either Meyers or Meehan firing. Traffic Policemam Moran and} could say of the robbers is that they Detective Newman, at Fifth Avenue,| seemed to be young men. It was re- heard the shots and started toward] ported to the police that an auto- the approaching fugitives. mobile answering the description of Nobody appears to have seen Crone, | that in which the thieves made their who seems to have been up clase to] escape had been secn passing through The weekly payroll, amounting: to $2,500 of the Mint Products Company, of Port Chester, was stolen to-day by two thugs who robbed the compxuny's two messengers ht revolver point less than one hundred yards from the en- trance to the plant. The thugs then got imto a wine-colored limousine, piloted by a third, an@ made their escape. Detachments of State Police set out in automobiles to seek the thieves as soon as the alarm reached them. Lucas Meyers, the paymaster, who e building, watching tho chase. The] Peckskill at 11 o'clock, two hours] West 140th two men who had been running were] after the robbery. i son, No, 216 caught when the pursuers, from two] The Mint Products Company was,| rested afte directions, closed im on them. according to the police, the only large Crone was found & title later lying} concern in Port Chester which has not against the bottom step of the Chris-|asked police protection during the | tan Science Church, No. 19 East 494) transportation of its payroll Street, shot through the heart. At) secscsses sees cece Belleyue Hospital the doctors said he police set out to find Latimer and F MISS GERTRUDE CANDITES.; OUNDERW OOD ANE ONDERWOOD ey saree THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, APRiL 8, 1922. o of Hunter College Swimming Champions Who Won the Honors in Close Conte MISS LAURA WIN BERG. @ Kno ERW0OP_ ANE VNOERWOOR | ight Street, and Louts, Harri- ENRIGHT AND MAYOR Writth Sanford's Two blackjacks were found. > NEGROES ROB STORE AS HUNDREDS PASS A nue, instant Two Thu woane, had dled Instantly 0 proved to be the| Reardon, to see whether they could} 7”? "Yue" wan Camtare she priscmers, whe identify any of the prisoners as those McCallum brothers, denied knowledge Three Negroes showing i ‘ They aad’ they | "PO had done the earlier robbery, f - of the tre hago pater rs “Yi Cradin said he could not identify {held up Ernito Alonzo anc | caer Bees Pied vicinity | thom, because the thieves in the fist] tomer in his cigar store at t and-ran for safety when shooting} instance had used flashlights which |<, , . started, In Yorkville Court they st. holas Avenue, nex were beld without bail. iinet titan: Dr: #. J. Sands of the psychopathte om | ward staff of Bellevue was a witness }3 NEGROES CAUGHT ee tee. seen to rea te] IN PISTOL BATTLE i OVER HIGH ROOFS shelter on every side, Dr. Sands said, and the unpleasant whistle of bullets x $40,000 Silk Loot Saved as De- made him take refuge in a shop Stree pin Another robbers from last night and searched them, taking a watch and chain and $100. One of the diamond cigar man ran tow store, head, but the bullet lodged in a panel near a door. tried t Alonzo's rd the back of the fired at statement, With Loot— were ar- CONFER 2 HOURS ON CRIME SITUATION Cammissioner Declares His Rookies Will Be Put on Force Soon. 800 Police Commissioner Enright called at City Hall this morning and had a revolvers PLANE CRASH DEAD BROUGHT TO SEVEN, PLOT SUCCUMBS 1 a cus- (Continued From First Page.) No. 1506 |*Wo-hour conference with Mayor i Aan ir 1ssth |Hylan. At its conclusion the Com-| company, had only been in the Lon- missioner admitted he and the } don-Baris Bervice three days. had dis The ussed the crime situation. Commissioner said it was hoped, through the assistance of the Municipal Civil Service Commission, that the list of 800 eligible patrolmen would be promulgated as soon as pos- sible so that the new patrolmen may Goliath s least some w the English mac seconds bet o tear a tie; the Bruce Yule was found a Alonzo's sion. e It seems certain that those In the at re the crash, as when the body of Mrs. Christop! hand r was pressed to her eyes as though to shut out the sight of the impending colli- doorway. From this, he said, he saw Hundreds were passing the store| he placed on the force cven before} Besides Mrs. Yule, the dead are her hl i: exhibition of courage by A : and many women and children were | May 1,the original date set for their| husband, who was a New York ex- e ‘who stood and fired quietly and tectives Surprise Alleged 4. Jentering the Majestic Theatre, across | entrance. It is probable that the 800| porter: M, Bouriez, another passens bo trcgsraioed beh toad Burglars. 67S [the street, as the Negroes ran out. Vinay be in training in about two|ser; Pilot Mire of the Gotiath and his i The gag Gar Se dN epson ae] a eee The chase led east through 185th | weeks and, if possible, on the street|Mechanic, and Pilot Duke and the ' viclim of a hold-up who was i ves Patrick Flood, Peter|Strect. Patrolman Ringen saw the} sine 4. instead of July 1. Gahin Redon teberclatemehine. | «fully resisting his would-be Corcoran and Jobn Hooks in a Police | Negroes and sent several shots after] "Wien goo men to start with, the] In the investigation of the accident [sel abn ten tereee Sying up and idepartment auto early to-day noticed ee een eee enae. tho them | Commisstoner will ask the Civil’ Ser-|thé theory is being advanced in some eo man a) 4 ys standing and shooting must have the door of the sixteen-story loft been one of the police, but which one | duilding at No. 36 West 25th Street he could not tell. was open. The door had been jim- She Hudson Boulevard police in Jer-] mea, seynCity some time after the shooting stopped an automebile with the New| With drawn revolvers and flash- York license number 706485, which is|lights the detectives crept up the On the eighth floor the said to have been the one used by the | stairway. door of Levy Brothers, ladies’ dresses, third man wanted. But the Jersey Suthorities Kaew mething then of thei .s been forced. Windows opening on the rear fire escape had been shooting. They found the driver, who gave the name of McMullen, had no raised ‘i and near by was some $15,000 cl feur's license. So they held the) Voit of silk. On the eleventh floor the loft of but let the man go. i the Crescent Cloak Company was open and $26,000 worth of cloaks and SIX ARRESTED EN ATTEMPT TO LOOT | iiisccve dioct axe ress men. on } BOOZE WAREHOUSE the fire escape above and started up after them. Three Negroes who were at the win- | Watchman Says He Found Four] dows or a loft on the twelfth floor } z : dashed up the escape, Mood firing ' Forcing Door — Place two shets at them | Robbed Before. Reaching the roof the Negroes | | Jumped across to the roof of No. 38, ~ Six men were arrested early this}and, firing as they ran, the detec- | morning when Robert Cradin, a} tives also made the leap | - hman, discovered an attempt to} Across the roofs from No. 38 to No. be ania doce ot the waschaase at{4® the Negroes ran, with the detec- fore the door of the warehouse at} tives at theip hecls, At No. 48 the No, 163 Pacific Street, Brooklyn, in| Negroes drofped to a fire escape which a large quantity of liquor is}and started down ' ’ 3, On the fourteenth floor the Ne- down the stairs, shoved through the Four of the six were at work upon crowd gathered by the noise and ran the front door, according to Cradin,| toward Sixth Avenue | afi he telephoned to the Butler Street] | The detectives fyed | sever: Station. In response, four detectives} *# the Negroes eergtelis and two patroimen were sent to the}? and they halted, with up Warehouse an dthe men around the} sed hands. At the station house they sald. they were Chester Whist, ogr were arrested. These were , : Jokeph De Georgi, No. 177 Mulberry | Wentyrmines & porter. of No. 140 St#eet; Marino Marro, No. 64 Eliza-] Wet 1424 Stree apes TOnARGD i S twenty-seven, laborer, of No. 13 beg Street; Joseph Iuso, No. 115] Went iggy Street, aad John’ Paree ElBridge Street, all of attan, and|)) 04 pe aR IR Lh Angelo Lombardi, No. 10 Ten Kyck | {irty-three Hireet, Williamsburg, At Court and Pacific Streets, the police found Sal- yatore Caffe, No, 225 Hudson Street, a chauffeur, of No est 142d Street fs Aan on NEGRO PRISONER ADMITS 16 as.chauffeur of a tavi, with its engine 15 ROBBERIES IN YEAR runing. Beside him was Julius Com- a fom, N 907 Greene Avenue, Brook 1 7 | Comfort was found to have al “""* oe LW ee 1 logded 38 calibre revolver in his rae mB pdeket, but with is he had a permit] The police announced to-day that ib the weapon, Henry Sanford of No, 16 West 1834 Caffe tolt the police that after tak- ing a fure .o Brooklyn he was on his Street, ¢ Negro atrested on a chu way back across the Manhattan] ° Shooting Policeman Patrick Mc- Bldee when one of tive men hailed} Hugh of the West 135th Street Sta- hit 2rd asked to be taken to Fourth| tion yesterday, has conf es 1 to fifteen the while aud Pacitic Streets, saying their ma ettine had broken down. He took them aljgard and was later directed to go hold-ups lust year trying to arrest three Negroes and store MeHu, robberies in h was shot ty Pacific and Court Streets and wait| jad charged with trving to held tum ten minutes, All got out save Com-| up, ‘Though shot In the temple, it 1s fort, and while he was waiting the] peljoved the policeman will reco arrest came Sanford ¢ essed to Detective " Phe sume warehouse was robbed! rieut, Schoenich to many crimes he x eeriarch 33 last, 160 cases of liquor, | hag operated under the alias of a Valued at $7,000, being stolen, At} Roniy Hach Datective Kocrath 1 that time Cragin and another watch-| found he held a warrant tor hit tor j med Kobert Reardon were | pobiery, March 194 | bound and thrown into an automo-| On the evening wf that date Richard din the building. Thomas | Nichols was held up and robbed a citize: who passed and Kaward Clark, twenty-two, of No Went to sce what was going on in}25 West 12: enti Marnien i the place Pobbers, who made their escupe. The was similarly bound by the thinty-tw c Wi others Ajsappeared Rivere, thi Street. man, South First Street, Thursday night. thieves gained entrance by forcing u rear window with crowbars, and es- caped with they missed more than $6,000 put up opes for paying the employees The robbers evidently the payroll. A safo was robbed in the photograph studio of Jacob Brandfon at No, Greenpoint Avenue, near point Police Station, opened up yesterday he fou upset on the floor fe off. 50 missing. ing, in enve off y: were aft plate oved overlouked §: oe TWO PRISONERS ADMIT HOLD-UP, POLICE SAY reached Ringen’ y-th, Speedway, captive a $6,000 PAYROLL MISSED BY BROOKLYN BURGLARS Yark and vice Commission to hold another ex- amination for police candidates in or- action of the propelle quarters that air suction, due to the ‘8, Was a factor 9 . ,|in preventing the pilots from avold- ald he was John} HF that the full 1,192 quota may be |ih PUGOU aE Ime Blots from ovola ‘ 9 East 195th | Pealized as rapidly as possible. phinee ieee Dhe Baardiat /Purchase,) of Which | "nhs. ais booking agencies annuonced Commissioner Grover A. Whalen 48} to aay there had been no cane Chairman, will obtain the six high-}o¢ pookings on account ef eee powered automobiles which Commis-| font ihre are cicht aiephice ook sioner Enright is to add to his bE] oonies operating batwern y cone flect of bandit chasers. At next] Tondon, with a combined fies ane ‘Tuesday's meeting of the Board of : ‘ ol ‘Two Safes Found Rifled by Police of Borough, The Brooklyn whole: or late erday. drilled in the ripped ¥ Candy Store Owner, Sh men, Wentifies Th $180 police are trying to run down tho robbers who ripped open the safe in the store of Reiser & Hy- ale grocers, in cash, t When Holes door Gy Bra The th 000 in Liberty bonds, sixty machines, with in each machine for twelve persons. All conduct a daily service that a resolu- Board of Pur- rs without pub- lic letting will be adopted. Commis- Aldermen it tion chas is likely empowering the to secure the ¢ ‘om the ( flying two airplanes a day at No. 26]sioner Enright will appear before the | Yovawitnesses im theo ilaze yesterday morn-| Aldermen and explain why he wants | 6g many planes, tel 0 The} the new cars, the collision; ———»——__. Ww commodations two companies some of them to vho this etory of “Suddenly a hug machine ap- sand es |BOY HELD AS ABDUCTOR | peared as if coming out trom beatnd OF 14-YEAR-OLD GIRL a curtain at a height of about 150 ts stil metres, proceedin In the direction of London, Hardly had it when a smaller machine from behind toward Paris. Morgan ‘Tells art Josephine, Sheehy Went to Jersey, Charles A. Morgan, twenty, of », $40 ngton Avenue, Brooklyn, Was held istrate Walsh in Ave ‘ooklyn, to-day on a charge of abduction in nection with the disappearance of Josephine Sheehy, fourteen, who lived with her widowed mother, Mrs, Anna § y, at No. 1507 Fulton Street, that borough, went on a Joy ride on Mareh the fox screen, A sinister ¢ 145 he Green- B thing they si —broken wood and hurtling to the ground planes had telescoped each and after staggering blindly few short seconds crashed to the earth bent had been the oute n dispov- hieves had h for appeared hot forth flying re- sounded through the air, and the next W Was masses of debris metal— The two air oth Fe a burning 5 wil an and eight others, Mor- ee nitted to-day that after the ride | “One wing of the French machine, the girl bad spent the night with him| completely torn off, was hurled to in his rage and had left early in the | the roof of a nearby buildiag, smash morning to go to New Jersey has|ing the top complete while the heen missing sing reat of the machine f In a field in Abdo- —————S————— The smaller machine fell near it, 117 CASES OF BEER making a hole a metre and a halt K hota, twenty-five, of No deep. i th Street, und maton SEIZED AT BATH BEACH | "rrh the midst of the wreckage of unrdin, tw four, of No. 7 Adar iv French plane's kurloy c mrdios Tovoken, ‘have admitted they | Beverage Was Being Delivered at the Nae ly Rig ea ie mA held up Herman Pollach in his candy Early Hour to Hotel. lay the sitet a UAAtES bodies c shop at N Fast 7th Street Thur Police Sergt. Steihr and Pol HG DEREOH BEER, _p . mmsongalc day, the poce say. Pollach is in the} Jacoby of the Bath Keach Station, | 50 badly were thelr faces gashed and City Hospital with a bullet in his abdo-| Brooklyn, on automobile patrol, cut that they we rendered cor men and has identified both men ipon a motor truck unloading 117 cases] pletely unrecognizable. From the The men worse artested yesterday by] of what is believed to be unlawfully} wreckage poured forth heavy vol De tectiv ) Re ¥ of Hie. ma h trong beer at Semken's Hotel at the} umes of thick emok it the vil- soription given by Polluch, ‘The ob ae eee Street, Bath BH lagers were uble to remove the bodies say Pechota admits the TeretiG TP eaaIRAN“OR. NOL eK0l-AE | before the fire destroyed what wa he was drunk and w fOr ene, dears Wicuioe S Couret tieft of the ma AM in the Wauor, La yGuardia order P-VAvenue and Philip Ly of No, 617] Brench plane must been ed keeper to bold up his hands and e-] Greenwood Avenue, all of the Bronx, | instantaneously chota shot through nervousne the wero arrested and put under $500 bafll «Meanwhile other vil yollwe Kay. Both © arraigned to-day! py Mag iper 5 ay : Poe oreiia Fo t chargud with tee At bei ys otgland | drew the dead body of folonious assault was held in default of a § 1 from the wrec Re > Sc aoeecae plane. Tho pilot of t POLICE CAPTURE TWO $2,200,000 SUIT ON about, thirty tect away, ing was taken to ALLEGED SAFE ROBBERS TIRE YARN CONTRACT| —- - ~ CARDINAL BEGIN AKKIVES on seph Lipsch: tw Suit for $%200,000 was fied in Fed BRANCE, ath Fl ral Court at Newark to-day against] Cardinal Naz in of Quebec, acs mani, <aeneealys OF the Brighton Mills at Passaic by Har- | compan eretary, Cit Be edi di Penton & Co. and the Nyanga} Herge, and ¢ Father Vandre, ar and MeDermott ar Mil beth of Boston, breach off rived on the steamship Pyanee to-day ea contrat he complaint charged that] The Cardinal, who ts eighty-two sours No, 84 on fthe firm led to carry ou con- | old, will spend Sunday with the Fathers Maret tract made on May 4, 1919 for the} of the Blessed Sacrement i KO to open purchase of 2,500,009 pounds of tire} Canada on M ¥] yarn - 7 mea - PORT CHESTER RE DEPART. CLERK OUT OF WonRK exDs LaFE MENT 100 YEARS oF Iward Hartsone, twenty-four years} ‘The Port Fire Department a clerk, out of employment for} will be one € oll May & ‘ HOME trae, CoOmmétted sulett t might }and. arrar are being to nk } Hartsone host in thia | tertainment. A t be named a COAL STRIKE DUTY [BORAH TO REFUSED BY ARMY) DEPORTATION OF | FRON PENN TEAM DEMAND CAMBRIDGE WINS § °° UNTIL STATES FAIL} GEN. SEMENOFF) IN LONDON RELAY Weeks Consults Harding and Then Denies Governor’s Plea for Troops. ‘WASHIN! iTON, April 8. Weeks declined to-da yto' trogps into New Me —Secretary pnd Fereral response ico in to a\telegram from Gov. Mechem, who sald the might need them to preserve order 4n the Gallup coal fields, where martia& law was declared resu® of disorder incident a strike. terday as to the The Seeretary's telegram, sent and ade public’ after he had conferred ith President Harding, said: “Unless disorder develops to a point where State authorities rve order, Federal troops cannot used in connection with the coal pre t strike.’ The House amendment Justic to the Appropriation to-day re unable to passed an Department of Bill, guaran- teeing that the Federal Government will not proseaute oi operators or miners if they, come together for a conference GALLUP, companie ne. os National April 8.—Two Guard en- gineers and a cavalry squadron ar- rived here rioting and near here. N. M. of early disorders Martial law wa to-day to quell coal flelds enforced in by the troops on orders of Gov. Mechem. INDIANAPOLIS, April 8.—Strik- ing coal miners, starting to-day and continuing next wee! last pay, estimated union officiats and as a strike fund. The wage distribution, an important factor in the miners’ ability to con- tinue the strike ago, . receive their t $30,000,000 by rded by them that began a week is for the final half of March, fifteen working days. It is the only big cash payment that will come dur- ing chest not the suspension, permitting strike benefits. the union war any general STEAMSHIP AGENT FINED $25 FOR BACK TALK TO DETECTIVE Drove Port Commissioner With Cut-Off Wide Open and George Scouted Polic White, H. a steamship agent, of No. 17 East 82d Street, was fined $25 Cariton him Simon, by Yorkville Court back to detective fice of Sp Magistrate Renaud in to-day for attached to the of- talking cial Deputy Commissioner when they for deiving his car up Fourth rebuked Avenue, in the presence of Dr- Simon, with the cut out open. When Sergt. Boylan, who was es- corting the Commissioner, and Detec- tive Bremer, who was driving the car !for dered Mr nd 25th men, but “imitation reserve the Commissioner, wife and a friend White chauffeur's lice re it, He then drove off. The detectives overtook the car at Fourth Avenue as passengers, te show them se at Fourth Avenue § he didn't believe they were who had his or- his told them real poli boys. he and 33d Street and there was u wordy quarrel which led somebody hold-up going on. tc » telephone 86th Street Station that there was a The reserves were to the East sent and had plenty of work in dis- persing the crowd that gathered. OPEN NEW BRIDGE FOR BOSTON ROAD Officials of Cities and Crowds of Autoists at Ceremonies in Bronx. The new steel and granite draw bridge over Eastchester Creek in the Bronx, carrying the Boston Post Road, was formally opened at 3,30 o'clock this afternoon with speeches and music ‘owd ned je bridg cross. has served the heavy t alon} in the Hiundreds of automobiles were road at awaiting the he years will be Those Hylan, pr Department Mayor and city officials of und the Mt, Vernon and New Whalen missioner pr sence of a large both ends of the signal to old wooden bridge which affic for many demolished. esent Commissioner Plant of included necepted the bridg: Mayor Whalen of the and Structures Rochelle. Com from a representative of the contrac- the city through Ma ver the shove feet wide of an apartment house in Madison Av furn! new wate high tide. hed by bridge way the is 07 and The then formally presented it to Music Deépart- or Hylan Fire feet long is 17 feet roadway, is 63 ——>_—_ RLS ovr BY KALANG GLASS. A pane of glass fell from the window nue between 104th and 105th Street this afternoon and@ the fragments of it cut and bruised two litle girls who Were playing on the sidewalk. ‘They were Bessie Altenback, seven, of No, 1684 Madison Avenue, and Sylvia Myers, Mt were home. Sina GRIEF K Matteo Bronx, i 1 dressed. fospital . of No, 1645 Madison Ave- Lamour took them to where After that he took them their cuts ——————_—_- Bensman, efi wiat known Jewish composer, dled suddenly Yesterday at No. 1818 Stebbins Avenue, COMPOSER, forty-five, widely where he had lived since he came to the United States a year ago. Friends said to-day he died of grief be- cause of Amerfean for Ca hh de inability which was scheduled to finance his ureb 18, Senator Aroused by Charges Cossack Had “Butchered” Americans. WASHINGTON, April 8.—Declaring he had received charges that Ameri- can men, women and children had been “butchered” in Siberia by Gen. Semenoff, Chairman Borah of the Senate Labor Committee arinounced to-day he would endeavor to bring aboua deportation of the Anti-Bol- shevik leader now under now under bail In New York after arrest in con- nection with a civil suit. FRANKFORT, Ky., April 8.—Col. Charles H. Morrow, brother of Gov. Bdwin P. Morrow, has sent a telegram to Secretary of State Hughes com- menting on the record of Gen. Gregori Semenoff in Siberia and charging that Gen. Semenoft ‘was a cowardly and unscrupulous enemy of America, conducting against the American troops a propaganda of slander and falsehood.’ The message continues: “The forces under his command were guilty of treacherous murder of American soldiers. He was known to be a murderer, robber and his crimes were unspeakable. He is the great- est monster of modern times,"" Col, Morrow, who commanded Am- erican ‘troops in Siberia, said that on one occasion Gen. Semenoff sent an armored train to attack the American camp at Polskaya, killing five and wounding others, although the Am- ericans finally routed the raiders, peach ial SEMENOFF DENIES HE’S RESPONSIBLE FOR THEFT OF GOODS General Served With Complaints in Suits for $208,000, Alleged Value of Merchandise. Gen. Semenoff was questioned to- day in the office of David W. Kahn, No, 120 Broadway, relative to his résponsibility for the theft of nearly half a million dollars worth of mer- chandise from the warehouse of the Yourovetta Home and Foreign Trade Corporation, a New York concern, at Manchuria. ‘The corporation, which is in bankruptey, is seeking to re- cover the value of the goods from Gen. Semenoft. With the aid of two interpreter Gen, Semenoff denied any responsi- bility for the loss of the merchandise. He said he was the military chief of the Republican army, directing only the fighting units; that he never signed any requisition for stores and that the matter of stores was s in charge of the quartermaster's department. Purtherm he suid, there are two commissions now sit- ting in Yarbin to settle responsibility for the mmitted during the war Semenoff’s attorney said that he would apply for a vacation of the order of arrest on Monday, Cen, and Mrs. Semenoff have arranged to sail for England on the Aquitania Tues day menoff was served with com- nts in two suits which have been the Supreme Court, One is for the recovery of $19,000 brought by C. B. Richards, the banker, for the value of goods alleged to have been stolen by Semenoft's army. ‘The other is for the recovery of $189,000, the value of goods alleged to have Leen stolen from one Natan olowezyk. ROBESON IN LEAD FOR GOLF TITLE Gains Three-Hole Advantage Over Henry Topping in North-South Finals. PINBHURST, N. C., April 8— Fillmore K. Robeson, Rochester, led at 3 up after eighteen holes of the final match with Henry J. Topping, Greenwich, for the North and South Mead championship had been 1 to-day ie cards were; Robe 644543648 6445444 4454637 6 64446 ——— $1000 BRIBE TO ACQUIT CONFESSED BY JUROR CHICAGO, April 8.— a juror in the trial of former President of the Chicago Bulld- ing Trade’s Council, on Bes of ox- tortion, confessed to State's attorneys to-day that he received $1,000 for voting for acquittal, enry J. Smith, on O'Donnell, > BOWIE SCRATCHES. SECOND. EH. CC. BASCH Courte cision, Perhaps. Warnote —Grasstree —_- BOWIS SELECTIONS. ——- BOWIE RACH TRAGK, April § The Evening World selections for morrow’s races are as follow FIRST RACE White Choose Entry, Carmen Pant SECOND RACE—Ace of Nephew, ‘The Decision HIRD RACE—King John, Applejack, SIXTH RAC! to- Entry, ‘Aces, The Ultra Gold. FOURTH RACE—Yasimak, Smith- son Entry, Ballot Mark FIFTH RACK—The Archer, ‘Tom Me Taggart Lamb. SIXTH RACE—Zouave, Searchlight, Bribed Voter SEVENTH RACE—Devil Dog. Ailiiro Smarty. on New English Mark of 18 Min- ules 72-5 Seconds Created in Four Mile Race. LONDON, April §.—Cambridge won the four-mile tnternational relay race to-day at the Queens Club, defeating the University af Pennsylvania and Oxford in the fenture event of the Achilles ‘Club ganas, Pennsylvania foneed the veteran Cambridge team to make a new Eng- lish timy did the dis- tance in 18 minutes 7 seconds. Oxford was third, The former rec- was 18 minutes & seconds, made at the Queens Clid) in 1920 by an American team composed of BE B. Curtis, J. J. Connolly, Jole Ray and Larry Shields. After leading all the was, from the start, Stallard, the or man of the Cambridge quartet, broke the tape record when with a lead of seventy-five yands over Larry ‘Brown, Captain and anchor man of Penn. Oxford was twelve yards behind Penn, The winning team consisted wf H. D. Stallard, W. G. ‘Tatham, W. R. Seagrove and E. D. Mountain. Stal- lard and Tatham ran with the Ox- ford-Cambridge team which made a two-mile world’s relay record at«the Penn relay varnival in 1 John Herr, Elmer McClane, Say- man and Larry Brown ran for Penn- sylvania. The world’s record for a four-mile relay team is 17.51 1-5, made in 1922 hy the Boston A. A feam and equalled in 1916 by Cornell, Cambridge was in the lead at the end of every mile of the race. The order of the runners at the end of the first mile was: Mountath, Cambridg Hewetson, Oxford; Herr, Pennsyl- vania At the end of the second mile Pennsylvania was second and Oxford third, the in order, being : Kerr, nd Weakley, Oxford. the end uf the third mile the in the same order, the Pennsyl- At teams were runners being Seagrove, Cambridge: McClane, Oxford At the finish StaQlard of Cambridge led Brown of l’ennsylvania by sev- enty-five yards, white Brown led Mil- ligan of Oxford by ten yards, _ on: U. S. TREASURY CLOSES MONEY PRINTING PLANT Indefinite Suspension Ordered ¢¢o ‘Take Inventory. WASHINGTON, April 8—Divisions Pennsylvania, and Bruxner, of the Bureau of Engrawing and Printing engaged in the production of bank notes, bonds and postage slamps will be closed to-night for an Indefinite period the purpose of taking an Inventory of the plant from which James L. Wilmeth and twenty- eight chiefs, superintendents and fore- men were removed by, Presidential or- der one week ago. The bureau employs about 6,000 persons and it was estimated that pout 4,000 of the total would be af- fected by the closing. tae MAYOR ASKED TO AID PEOPLE OF E, GALICIA for About 200 American-born children: of Ukrainian descent marched to City Ha! to-day and presented a petition to Mayor Hylan, protesting against alleged outrages committed in Ukrainian, Galicia, by Polish military occupants of that country. ‘The petition ends with a plea for the “freedom of the people of Ukrainian, East Galicia. Mayor Hylan was photographed and filmed with the children gathered about him, after which he told them that while his powers were considerable, they were not great enough to permit him Yo lend aid. He promised, however, to forward the petition to Washington. a DIED. —MARY AMELIA, dearly beloved her of Mary Amelia Bruce and Henry KUN m A Funeral services Sunday, P. M., at her late residence, ay., Tompkinaville, 8. 1. M'KENNA.—ARTHUR J, beloved husband of Agnes Murphy McKenna and father of Arthur, Eugene and Edward Mckenna, in his S4th year, on Friday, April 7, 1992, at his re 1007 Gates av., Brooklyn, Notico neral hereafter April 9, at 3 24 Central of FUNERAL DIRECTORS, Ah SNS ee When Death Occurs Call “Columbus 8200° (FRANK E. 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