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| o 10 him, threatening to shoot her. He had) YEGGS CART AWAY +} +) She told the police that she fired — é ; Take Strong Box With $228 rom Erie Ticket Office. at her husband with a revolver that she got from her bed room, after he had turned remarks against Pitlock to herself, making innundoes which she resented, and making an advance tack; her, twenty-two years old, as a Yegemen stole a 700-pound safe from the Erie Railroad office at Ridgewood, an under treatment at a om time to time be- | truck. Interborough Expert Fixed Cost at $170,000,000 Away Over Actual Basis. tion, he was invited by the Hubbards] and driving away. to stay at their home, and had been a] ‘Thomas King, night station agent, guest there for four days. went off duty at 10.38 and closed the Mrs. Hubbard said she and Pitlock | office, leaving the money In It. Charles Overvaluation of $20,000,000 in the estimates submitted by the I. R. T. Co. for the cost of tunnel construction on contracts 1, 2 and 3 was charged to-day by Clarence J. Shearn, special counsel to the Transit Commission in its investigation of the yalue of the traction properties of this city. William ®. Gorsuch, bag Mak cok Serunechee cont ot tha earned The United Fruit steamer Santa work would be $170,000,000. Marta, here to-day from West Indian On cross-examination by Mr./ports, brought word that on the Iast Shearn, it was shown by estimates] voyage southward she had carried from for materials, labor and supplies, that! santiago, Cuba, to Kingston, Jamaica, ee. pesvaiiinie, pitoed for reared seventy-five Gypsies of the Demeter] ‘ Giov) tents eountedion com.|clan, said to be Poles, who spoke ny’s figures. Portuguese, One of them said he used wy caused Mr, Shearn to say to}to live in Brooklyn in a street through the witness: ‘‘You see, we are dealing | which the elevated ratlroad ran, It had been walking in the arborway for two hours yesterday, before they returned to her home, and found her] (},'piuce, ‘Thinking King was working husband awaiting them in an angry] inte Bueckhoud entered and foun? the mood. safe was missing. 2. SES > oT The yegss had pried open a window GYPSIES HAD $1,000,000 Seer goles tsteneh.tte loss 7 IN JEWELS AND COIN panic dasatni aes CONTEST RIGHT TO PUT SEMENOFF ON STAND Milew was passing the place about midnight Ship's Passengers See Former German Raider Ashore. he courts have jurisdic- inst Gen, ‘Gregory ing merchandise sales by quravetta Home and Foreign Trade defunct cory * here with dollars, not with rubles." | was figured out that this must have been eine ppb) — ho Hudson Avenue and years ago. et representing Sem AND ‘The Gypsies were reported as having under the bank- SHOOTS HUSB. with them $1,000,000 In Jewelry and AFTER THREATS} £212.02!" The, ship's officers also de Clared they were dressed in ay colored Sellen colthing, with bandannas about their necks, ‘The men wore swords and the] asserts tha Naval Lieutenant Whose At-| women were barefoot. When the vessel hed Kingston, it was said the tentions Caused Attack [Gypsies threw gold coins overboard to| SERGEANT’S PLEA FREES be recovered by diving Negro urchins. WIFE WHO WOUNDED HiM Surrenders. ‘On her way northward, the Santa id Marta officers said they saw the old Reserve Policeman ‘Tells Court TOSTON, May %—An all-night|German raider Moewe, now the Green-| Meserve nallveman Srll® | tos! search for Edmund Pitlock of Chicago ee a ee ee by police investigating the fatal shoot- ing of William B. Hubbard, manu- facturer of a vegetable germicide, by Carrie N. Hubbard, his wife, at thelr ° ° to-day when Pitlock surrendered at S l I. Police Headquarters for examination, pecia bd Pineapple Ss Although the shooting was said by Banded Mushroom Sport Hat .<<S by her husband on her return from . a walk with Pitlock, the latter had for Everyday or Sports Mrs. Hubbard, « woman of forty- Wear. Al Popular Colors. five, was photographed at Police Canton Crepe bands. $) 50 Ss Headquarters, and returned to the Satin Lined. ASS ‘West Roxbury Court for arraignment. through counsel, waived examination, ¢ ’ site So wioa a WOMEN’S SHOP. said Mrs, Hubbard had told him that Broadway at 49th St. her husband recently had put to her Roslindule home late yesterday, ended Mrs. Hubbard to have followed threats Regular $5.95 Value. Ideal fied when police came at her call. ‘When urraigned Mrs, Hubbard plead- 5 others ¢ed not guilty to a charge of murder, ‘Willard P. Lombard, her attorney, head the gun with which she killed lof No. 124 Bast 120th Street, c! with felonious assault in con with the shooting of her husband, Wi jam De Nolelle, © Police Reserve Ser- vue geant, was discharged from custody] Park Commissioner Defeats to-day, Sat Swoetser in Harlem Court, when ner} Recall and Friends Cele- husband informed the Mugistrate he was of the opinion that his wife had not intended to shoot him and that he FOR NEW SUBWAYS a been a guest at the | N: J. last night and carted it away i De Noletle, who is attached to the cial election here, at Long a did not want to press the charge. ck, ‘There was $228 in the safe, East 126th Street Station, was shot cording to road officials, The thieves|in the left shoulder, early Monday several months ago} ot to drill thelr way Into the station, |morning, soon after he returned home| vic to his wife and child at Chicago. Vis-| iit didn't waste time on the safe, merely |from four hours of patrol duty. He iting Boston again for medical atten-| rojting. it out, loading It on the truck | was taken to Harlem Hospital and this wife charged w Ae 110 OFF FOR EXERCISES W. Bueckhoud, the day station agent,| AT HAMPTON INSTITUTE 2,950 on his way home and noticed a light In} wew York thropic Leaders to Take Part, Prominent New York social and phi- lanthropic leaders left to-day to attend] of the night and was still tra! the 64th anniversary exercises of Hamp- by Magistrate William A brate All Night. ay jubilation early to-day f ner of Parks andPubli who was the subject ot shooting. —_ oclety and Philan-| «, jately a big celebrat s this morning nearly 200 hrown out at historic points on the 4] LONG BRANCH VOTE | CAUSES JUBILATION Scenes resembling the armistice J., which resulted in a x Samuel B, Zartman, com- balloting. Shortly before midnight y Clerk Elmer Lawyer announced under way that lasted the remainder followed ic Pros f recall against 756 in favor, This insur- at of J. Harry Davis, fon got Ming in ballots 134 West 34 St. °nxer'S Between Broadwa, and 7th Avenue. YOU ALWAYS PAY LESS A'T MAY'S—No charge accounts—no high rents—no heavy overhead expense —but VALUES BEYOND COMPARE. SMART SUITS The Season’s Latest Mode Greatly Reduced Sor Clearance. Fine hand tailored garments) of Twills and Trico- tine, from our _ regular stock. The Coats are full 88 inches long, having the wanted = slender lines. \ Formerly up to $52.50 Thursday and Friday Reduced to 3.4.50 Shades are Navy, Tan and Black. Heavy Brocade Silk lining. Women’s and misses’ sizes. Stern Brothers West 42nd St. (Between sth and 6th Avenues) West 43rd St. Most Exceptional ‘Values Thursday in Misses’ WRAPS and CAPES Heretofore priced from $75 to $110—NOW $49.75 @apes and wraps that will make an immediate appeal—each has so springlike an air and is fashioned of s0 rich a fabric. 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