The evening world. Newspaper, April 17, 1922, Page 11

tl el hak eee TOFATRALS BEGUN FOR MURDER IN WHISKEY RAD Collins Faces Court for Death of Watchman on Staten Island. Raymond C. Collins, thirty-three Years old, of No, 1634 Hight Avenue, oklyn, was to-day placed on trial fore County Judge Harry Tiernan in » George, S. T., the first of ur men indicted for the murder on the morning of March 1 of Michael Connor, night watchman of the Tan- mer-Goss warchouse at the foot of Jer- my Strect, New Brighton, 8. I. Con- Mor was sixty-seven® years old and d ut No. 482 Richmond Terrace, Brighton, 8. 1. ’ A motorboat drew up at the dock on morning mentioned and four men Went from it to the warehouse, and )when Connor responded to their knock attacked him with blackjacks, ‘His cries were heard in a house nea: by and a window was raised, fright- ening the assailants, who ran for their oat and started for the Brooklyn @hore. Connor died five days later ‘without regaining consciousness. In the warehouse was stored $35,- 000 worth of pre-prohibition whiskey, fe atid the authorities concluded that the igang that killed the watchman were rooklyn bootleggers. They arrested mes Conigal, nineteen years old, of fo. 9 Carroll Place, and Frank sown, thirty-two, of No. 120 Henry t, both of New Brighton, 8. I. Dn their alleged confessions there fol- lowed the arrest of Collins and James mm, alias James Flynn, twenty- fo. 1072 Gates Avenue, Brooklyn, four were indicted for murder in Bhe first degree. rf bree more were indicted for con- piracy to murder, it being alleged they were in the motor boat. Frank Pickford, 31, No. , and Rensselaer Car- xo. Park Pince, both of Brooklyn, and Eugene Merrill, a tug- dont captain, of No. 1592 Richmond ayénue, | Richmond I, who, “is claimed, was in charge of the tor boat. tach defendant demanded a rate trial and the authorities say will take six weeks for the seven friats, at a cost to the borough of $150,000. Collins is being defended by former District Attorney Frank In- ness. > |] FAMILIES FLEE FIRE IN LAKEWOOD, N. J. ,Reach Street in Safety as Blaze of Unknown Origin Causes $50,000 Damage. Fire of unknown origin drove thr families into the street and caused damage estimated at $50,000 in the two-story frame building owned by Forman T. Johnson at Main Street and Clifton Avenue, Lakewood, N. J., : re early to-day. The fire started a lunch room on the ground floor ef the building, and was discovered By policeman John Soden, who turned fm the alarm. A large part of the stock of the Regal Shoe Company, also on the ground floor, was destroyed. Apartments on the second floor of building were occupled by Mr. and ; Forman Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. BH Jesse Johnson and Mr. and M ; Martinson. Al! reached the street in safety. The fire spread rapidly and ormpletely destroyed the rear section ef the building. cshta Me eS CHARGED WITH PICKING POCK- © BTS IN SYNAGOGUE. Theodore Rosenman, twenty-eight, and Jacob Topper, forty-eight, both "aid to have police records as pick- Pockets, were arrested last night in the mynsgogue at Bedford Avenue and er Strect, Brooklyn, where the ‘Congregation w holding a money raising festival to enable them to burn & mortgaze. According to Detective Stanley of the Pickpocket Squad, the two men were pushing through the @rowd when he saw them attempt to lift a wallet from the pocket of a mem- ber of the congregation. ee EASTER FINERY » DOUSED IN FUN ON t “DUCKING DAYS” | Tension Relieved by Imported |. Custom of Pennsylvania Striking Miners. HAZELTON, Pa., April 19. “Ducking days’ started to-day ‘with the foreign speaking miners ef the anthracite coul fields and ‘will afford considerable sport as & relief from the monotony of the suspension, The custom prevails @mong the Lithuanians, Poles, Galicians, Slavs, Russians and Rumanians und’ is generally ob- served as an after Easter event. On Easter Monday the men have the right to throw water by bucketsful on the women and girls. To-morrow the women will enjoy the privilege of doing kewise with the men and boys. and ‘second’ Easter is to wear the best hence the additional fun “dousing’’ to spoil either a ww dress or sult as case may The ‘ducking’ usually is m good naturediy by those AL off Lheir Buard, Victims o° $10,000 Day the Band of Five T “Customers” From America. Governor’s “Review” Taken] Population in 19-Mile Area] in 1920, 6,680,048, According to the] Committee to Get His Views Feapectabillty qurrounding these tay ne ean tt ' vi Sy naade Ths she commit y “La ¢ y ers. you ha regret to. sity, as Indication He Will Exceeds That of the British | Yay"yus.s atements tot wan} O1 State Regulation of been ehiumpioning such overt ete oF a n Ht 3,926,99 Ini layt Bet ft as the exchange among thee posuvre,, A auaint feature ofthe rot] Stand for Re-Election. Metropolis. 26.008 and 1820, 1820 078 Unions Next Friday, | Wesaltz ee ie cxsonnts mmauy Rage defenseless, ‘Niquor-maxking commu-| nie nity, came to this country to-day from| eagerly invited the pirates, whom the Bahamas. they took for customers from Amer. fea, to come to their places and de So serious has the situation become, t with no bootlegger safe, and a black-| ™ drawers of numerous Grand Bahama Hquor dispensaries, in the offing, that an indignant committee of liquor deal- ers considers petitioning His Majesty's Government to send a cruiser for the islands’ protection. Five pirates in a small boat landed at Grand Bahamas recently, They carried out their operations in broad na of $10,000 was obtained in one day's at-| rn Brought Up as a G Concealed His Sex Brave Perils 0 OCRACOKE, N. C., April 17.— Charles Williams of Ocracoke, who lived the first twenty-ome years of his life as a girl on isolated Ocracoke Island and then Med from his first contact with the cruel, cold world, kn to he gone on a foreign cruise. ne When Charles was born his moticr Was so disappointed that he was not on! one. So under the name of Vera he grew up in the little community of fishermen which constitutes Ocracoke Island. jon not Ww He was u popular “‘girl."" Hel He learned the domestic art longed to girls’ clubs; I sweetheart: he be-|1tts WANAMAKER, AT 83, |C WINS ANGLING PRIZE IN FLORIDA WATERS W is re au next month at Washington, follows the action of Secretary Hughes, who made suggestions when the dispute became acute recently. Dr. Solar, who is mi waukee, who has been in South America since garbage disposal plants, with the idea] which defendants out on of installation of a similar plant in Milwaukee, returned on board the Santa Luisa. He brought with him two immense condors, which had been given him by his two sisters, who}; live in Mendoza, Argentina, for pres entation to the Milwaukee Zoo. iid calendar Venerable Merchant Proud of $5 Captured in Florida Contest. ST. PETERSBURG, Fia., April 17. —A check for $5, the prize for land- ing the first kingfish of the season, is a recent acquisition of which John Wanamaker, merchant of New York and Philadelphia, is very proud. The prize is awarded annually by Rdward Jewitt of Passagrille, a village on ono of the islands not far from here, Mr. Wanamaker, despite his eighty- three years, is an ardent fisherman. He is often seen in the waters about here with such old friends of his as Mr. Jewitt, Dr. Quicksall, J. Howel) of this city and, of course, the skip- per of his yacht, pide 2S aa MRS. ALFRED S. POST IS DEAD IN FRANCE Daughter of Late Henry Morgan Mrs. Alfred Setton Post, prominent resident of Flushing, L. I., died Friday in the American Hospital at Neullly, She had been in Burope week® ago while shopping in Paris, She was a daughter of the late Henry Morgan of Great Neck and a relative of the Pells and Livingstones. Mayor McClellan appointed her a School Commissioner. She was ac- tive in civic and charitable work, a member of the Board of Managers of the Home for Destitute Blind and of the Daughters of the American Revo- lution. She is survived by one son and three daughter: The son is A. Setton Post, Vice President of the Equitable Trust Company, of this city. Bootleggers Are Not Sale Now; |MILLERSUMS UP INEWYORKISNOW (:2:2S35825 LOCKWOOD SEEKS riquor Dispensaries in Behamas| TWOVEARS WORK | 344508 AHEAD OF (===) eoMpens ADVGE A tale of pirates and daring daylight to-day describes tie first pirate ma- looting of liqyor saloons, terrorizing a} D0euvre. A quaint feature of the rob- flagged craft, whose red-bandanacd | Tr 4 rags crew already has scuttled ‘the cash} Tom res ness with ‘our by-friends across the trade,’ oix revolvers in the hands of men whose value of life was discounted when placed in the balance with Miller as the “most notable achieve- moncy."* daylight, and when they rowed back!" ‘rhe ‘Tribune declared that several to their launch, loot from five liquor] otier establishments, at each of which establishments whose tills they had] ‘grim death” gleamed from black rifled went with them. More than] muzzles, were robbed in the same) been brought about through passage|line, extends in somo directions as] Judge Dail, about-a year ago for vio-| submitted at the session just brought tack, Nassitu is in a state of no inconsider- | sep, The Nassau ‘Tribune, on hand here | ah! He Now Goes Away to Be a Sailor “Vera” Charles Williams, Whose Mother |? tm § Stone. [emwemmttoconscs cremmell | UPTOWN, eabeblesvnn Farnitoe” na, pDONNTONN ls ; atthe deel apeeeeen venue an st Str kK ark Row an atham his twenty-first birthday, it was made Se ouie Finca trae Sea 2212 to 2224 Third Avenue Ask Your Grandfather 193 to 208 Park Row Sq former resident of Ocracoke, to whom not continue their correspondence be-|nad to be met. cause it wasn’t “manly,” The next * step was to provide himself with has disappeared again. It is thought] man’s attire and go out into the world. he may have become u sailor and] In Baltimore he got a job, but soon [$2,500,000 ‘and provided for extraor- months went home. He followed the nd became a fisherman, but In many a girl she decided to bring him up as]other ways his home island was changed. His friends, who had so even lad|world, and they believe he has do : for he is pretty. 80. Be Bt CAG; Then about a year ago, shortly after] want him to come home again. sador Extraordinary and Minister}he added, ‘‘the Legislature has laid which docked at Pier No. 33, foot of] The State water power bills, tl Humilton Avenue, Brooklyn. Dr. Solar} New York transit commission and Tacna-Arica dispute, which for many years has been the Alsace-Lorraine and three be at the Luis B. Feliu, who is to be Secretary feral Sessions und the three purts of thy of the Chilean Delegation, was also on board. THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, APRIL 17, 1923. absent himself from the sessions, In @ letter addressed to Hortert Hoover, Seeretury of Commerce, Mi Untermyer made a vigorous reply yesterday to some statements made by Mr, Hoover in defense of trad associations. In part he said: “To the utter amazement and enne fusion of those of us who are strud gling to exterminate these cancers ji our industrial life against obst already sufficiently formidable, due the perverted mental «ititude of the courts and the atmosphere of semi- chester and Nassau Counties and part population of the County of London IN ALBANY JOB LONDON'S CENSUS}. 2a) ON LABOR CONTROL light Robbery Invite aking Them for 7,476,168 in 1921, Tho population of the Greater New York area in 1891 was 2,507,414, and The committee points out that the " County of London has decreased at The New York City 1920 -rnusleach census since 1902 and that its} After an adjournment of more than Committes, through its Executive] population was passed by Greater two months which have been marked | &C . candidate for re-election was greatly | Se Dr Ww ‘otclaw, “= » |New York in 1908. During the decade] PY one of the bitterest legislative Atlat aston paniinedtn Bet pig strengthened to-day by his lengthy|Statement yesterday declared there|ffom 1910 to 1920, it remarks, the] Sruesien of recent years, the Lock- ’ price ee raat “Lat ‘ . *| wood Legtelative Committee will re-| Me and limitation of ontput, ‘They ‘tatement summarizing the accom-|Were 314,508 more persons within cca ee ata iis gieeee euity. sume its hearings in the Aldermanic] are the badges of illemality on which plishments of his Administration. He} nine on miles of +> City 1 * or lover and above “Greater London’s''| Chamber of the City Hall) at noon] We Prosecutors must rely to seen specified attainments made possible/Jan. 1, 1920, than there were in| growth, next Friday with Samuel Gompers as} Convictions. data showing production ¢ on hand, volume of order as legitionste. #, stoke contrnet in eacfi instance the victime ALBANY, April 17.—The prevail- ing belief that Gov. Miller will be @ siness, e ‘They (the ‘pirates),"’ says the ibune, “were taken to a big bach tved for confidential busi- pve : the only witness, through teamwork between himself] *‘Greater London” on June 19, 1921. ‘0 sooner there than the man- a p . The President of the American Fed- Ne onion theres Tee tHe. HAD. | oa the pant two Lapiaatunia-waldle |! “Chater London’ incltiées not obiy| Ne J DRY BASIN EINDIS:. | yitce emcees ec resmmane tree aster with-a keen interest in ‘our| politicians concede, have been abso-|the County of London, whote Coun. MOONSHINE BREWERY | his views upon the question of impos. cil bas legislative and administrative eth ur tha ve faa sort of State regulation upon ities us hewn Pa _ | Patrick Rocks, former Chief of jabor unions. 4 sa y a @ Board of Al-| eth Amboy Fire Department, was are] The questioning of Mr. Gompers will lermen and Board of Estimate in the|rested, and a complete brewing outfit | be the first move toward the forma- Greater New York, but also an cuter es of beer were confls-| tion of a set of proposals which the ring, in which the Metropolitan Po- Hotel af-Old Bridge: | committee members plan to make to Brunswick, Ny Ju w lice has specified powers and duties, | raided this morning by a Federal Pro-| the next Legislature, whieh, it ts ox- cel ; ida "| hibition agent. pected, will be even broader and more Tts suburban area, Irregular in out- | "Rocks, who was fined $1,000 by County | sweeping in character than the bills it ed the disagreeable spect: death as seen down the barrels of lutely dominated by the Governor. Substantial reductions in the cost of government are indexed by Mr. ment,” coupled with his claim that “order, efficiency and economy” tn the administration of State affairs have anner, and that the industry at}of yarious bills suggested by him-|far as nineteen miles from Charing} lation of the now defunct Van Ness] ty a close. x State Prohibition Act, was arraigned 88, i te alarm, fee! Reset ihe par io before United States Commissioner John Oxpected ” Axsembs year, 16s Gouraud’s The Legislatures of 1921 and 1922] ¢, Purpose of comparison, the} 4, Delaney in Perth Amboy and held in ¥, Vice Chairman of the com-| (7am : ~ havallaubettited ation: for ae nsus Committee uses the term] si.o00 bell on & chares of violating the| mites, who was accused by Mr. Un-| ROM @Usian ol i Ola ckeban ‘Latgest New York’ to designate al Volstead act termyer of having brought about the’ asserts the Governor. “As the result a record of accomplishment, of fulfil- ment of promises is presented to the people in place o/ a list of excuses for non-performance."* Recalling that appropriations had 450 in 1910 to and that the de- COWPERTHWAIT & SON irl Till 21, $142,219,906 in 1920, S tions were more than ‘0,000,000 lower than the requests and $9,600,000 less thrn in 1920, despite the fact that wus almost engaged, th: e could |deficiencies amounting to $10,000,000 own that he was a man. He wrote a young man in New York, 4 A Dollar Delivers the Goods The airplane flies on the wings of the wind, cutting in frag- ments time and space, and bringing closer all kinds of pleasures. Swift as an airplane, Cowperthwait’s $1 Deposit Sale clips 18 months from the distance between the average family and the comfort of a completely furnished home, Bring a Dollar to either our Harlem or our Chatham Square Store this week, order whatever you want to beautify your home, a dollar’s worth or a thousand dollars’ worth, “and we will deliver the goods”—good substantial ones, too. Remember—$1 Deposit and eighteen months to make up the balance in small amounts. Harlem Store Open Monday Evenings i Both Stores Open Saturday Evening. y} “The Legislature of 1922,"" he said, “madé a still further reduction of became homesick and in a fewlginary and unusual requirements of roughly $10,000,000. t notable achievement is emphasized by the fact that in both years I signed the ap- propriation bills exactly as they came to me.” The task of “establishin ficiency and * in public ministration ‘omplished in equally signal ion, seless activit been eliminated and needed depart- mental reorganizations have been ef- fected or provided for. Provision has HILE’S ENVOY HERE been made for a perma organization under the ON TACNA DISPUTE] mate ana Contro!. The erntne va ea hs have been revised so as to secu ill Meet Peru's Representative oompetition. Already unnecessary ; printing has been eliminated to ie Following Mr. Hughes's amount of $650,000 annually.”* Suggestion. Provision also has been made, the Dr. Carlos Alduhate Solar, Ambus-|central purchasing system, ly occupation possible on Ocracoke ng regarded him as a girl, could t treat him as they had before, and illiams became restless. cently told friends he would © to become a sailor and see the But they suy they like him and Governor said, for the evolut of Thus, nipotentiary from Chili on special }the foundation for the application « jon, arrived to-day on board tle|sound methods to the conduct of the ace Line steamship Santa Luisa, | pu business. port authority measu are pointed out as special accomplishments that promise great benefit to the public He also emphasizes the many void welfare” bills passed during the past two years, of A COURT CALENDAR HERE HAS EIGHTY ROBBERIES here to attend a conference with presentatives of Peru to discuss the Chair $9.75 Sofa $23.50 Rocker $9.75 Set Reduced from $75.50. $1 Deposit and 75¢ Weekly. s 2 Without Cushions—Chair $7.50, Sofa $19, Rocker $7.50 $ Q Excellent grade natural reed wicker, for sun parlor, porch or 269 ueen Anne living room, Reduced from $354, 10-Pc. Walnut Suite $1 Deposit and $3.25 Weekly. A well made suite, of design and little decoration, but with prettily curved lines. 60-inch Buffet, with mirror-baek and long linen drawer; 34- erver, with large storage compartment; Ching Closet, with latticed 48-inch Extension Table, 5 Chairs and Arm Chair, with genuine leather $1 Deposit on Any Suite in Either Store. uestion of South America. The Conference, which will meet $1, Deposit on all Summer Furniture, Couch Hammocks, etc. one of the oldest of Chile's diplo- ats, was accompanied by his wife}To-Merrow's Schedule ¢ hildren, and said he would Crimes of Violence ¢ Hotel Plaza for a week.]| Tho calendar for the Courts of Gen- Us for Supreme Court assigned to criminal trials contained eighty cases to-day in which the glefendants are charged with robbery or burg! Banton said h: would be mad George Stall, City Engineer of Mil- January, examining a autical charged with crimes of vi nine and probably ten’ courts eases as well as prison c trials. ice Devendort of n Mahogany Library Table : | $225 Queen Anne 4-Pc. Walnut Suite| “pair ve top vin handsome grain. Prot $89 ocker, Sofa and i pretty. Bedroom Suile, of wellmatched American Welnui:| ends Reduced $rorx $134. hea Dressers with Iarge mirror, unl serviceable Chitforebe, have dustproot | 412, ciiee, “Pus oad igegagey ye ney asaya ™"| inswide by 43 in. tong. | | Frame of Birch, Mabogsay-finished, upholstered in town Spanish Imperial Leather Substitute. Comfortabl Special Price, $19 | spring seats; sola has spring edge. png ci Reduced from $325. $1 Deposit and $3.00 Weekly | Yeneering, to show cases; Semi-Vanity, with one long mirror and two wings; full sized end Bed. $1 Deposit on All Other Suites for Small or Large Bedrooms. Spring Rug Bargains—$1 Deposit Velvet, 27 in. x 54; regularly.45.90......Now $3.98 Upholstery S Axminster, 27 in. x 54; regularly $7.50.Now 5.98 Dept. ; Tapestry Stair Carpet, reg. $2.95..... Now 1.75 Et) slaelaied Can You Remember These Old Time Prices? Special for Tuesday, Chocolate Covered Cocoanut $1 Deposit ‘ Seamless Velvet, 7.6 x 9; reg. $52.50...Now 29,00 | Other sizes of this rug in proportion, | | Special for Tuesday Old Fashion 4 Cretonne Bedroom Outfit | Tapestry Brussels, 8.3 x 10.6; reg, $34.Now 24.00 Bel Srceaeeen ene revere) All for her sizes of this rug in proportion, Gne bO-nch Beart. {7.25 | Seamless Axminster, 9x12; reg. $75,..Now 48,00 Wustabler Couch Cavece 52% | Wilton, 9x12, regularly #160........... Now 98.00 Cretonne Dutch Curtains 98 Inlaid Linoleum, regularly $2.25 ayd.Now 1.85 For Spring Trips Useful as a Wardrobe Fibre trunk, 40 inohes high, 1414 inches deep. 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