The evening world. Newspaper, May 5, 1922, Page 24

& 8 a 4 Fi e ' SIPS eT! SRLS 24 Chinese Slayer Of Best Friend Pays With Life Ah Fook Gets Wish by Passing Away in Newark Jail Ah Fook, the Chinese who was al- Jeged to have killed his friend, Ab ‘Ben, with a meat cleaver, in Newark ‘when Ah Ben refused to return to (China with him, has had his wish, for he died to-day. Immodiately after his arrest in con- nection with the crime, Ah Mook, in order to expiate the death of his friend, according to an old Chinese belief, went on a hunger strike. He was taken from the Essex County Jail to the Newark City Hospital, where he remained on hunger strike for eighty-three days, but to no avail, as he was forcibly fed So he finally gave it up, and then contracted pneu- monia. He recovered, however, and when he was about to be taken back to the Jall he became jubilant, thinking that his release from the hospital meant his complete release. When he learned thet he was to go back-to jail he collapsed. At the jail the Chi- nese lost al! interest in things and said he wanted to die. Soon he contracted pameumonia again, and death followed With Ah Ben, Ah Fook lived on the third floor at No. 200 Mulberry Street, tm the Chinese quarter of Newark ‘The men were close friends and when Ah Ben failed to share Ah Fook's longing to return to their native rice fields, the murder resulted, according to the police epics J. SHARPLESS WORTH. COATESVILLE, Pu. May 5—J Sharpless Worth. prominent iren and steel manufacturer, diet at bis Lome here last night. He was seventy-one years old and was one of the owners of Worth Brothers & Co, which sob its Costesville plant to the Midvale Steel Sempany some years ago. HARDING INTERVIEW| BUT SENTENCED AS ‘VAG’ Head of Miners Here Re- Divulge Any- thing About Conference. President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers of America on his return to New York to-day said that by agreement with President Harding he could not publicly com- fuses to ment on the subject covering the national coal strike discussed at the White House yesterday. The visit. he said, had been anged by the President, and any revelations as to the purpose and outcome of the meet- ing must come from Mr. Harding. Lewis Dwyer, State organizer of the United Mine Workers of West Vir- ginia, arrived in the city today to confer with President Lewis. The subject of the conference was not made public. The Anthracite Wage Scale Confer. once met to-day at the Union League Club for the final session of the week. > FAILS TO PROVE THREE HAD 95 CASES OF RUM Government Lo Action Involving Whiskey Found After Shipwreck. Thecdore Symett, Joseph Lazarich and John Bucieh were freed by United States Commissioner E, E. Hennessey in Brooklyn to-day when they were ar- raigned before him on a charge of vio- lating the Uquor laws. They were al- leged to have had liquor on thelr boat, Krazy Kat No. 2, which went ashore recently at Jones Inlet, near Freeport, bL. 1 Ninety-five cases of whiskey were found on shore by the Coast Guard, wnu rescued the crew, but none was on the craft. ‘The Government was unable to show to-day that the whiskey from the boat. came — YALE CLUBS’ CONCERT TO-NIURT, The annual concert of the combined Yale Glee, Banjo and Mandolin Clubs, at the Astor to-night, will be attended by most of the “Yale families in New York. A dancé and midnight supper, under the auspices of the Yale Club of New York City, are to follow the con- Aged Beggar Has $58 tn Pennies, Miekels, Dimes and Quarters. Although literally weighed down by his wealth, August Braun, elghty-three, of No, 317 Bowery, guilty of vagrancy Magistrate Moses R. Ryttenberg in Es- sex Market Court to serve three months in the Workhouse. Braun's wealth was only $58, but It was represented in 800 pennies, 400 nickels, 100 dimes and 80 25-cent pieces Braun told the court he came to this country two years ago, and since then his son died, making is necessary for him to depend on himself for his livell- hood. He was begging on the Bowery when arrested by Patrolman Timothy O'Nell, of the Fifth Street Station. The money that was weighing him down, he maid, he wanted to save for the hard winter that was coming. occomncenieipeeianialis THEFT OF TIME GETS HIM TIME IN PRISON Jeweler's Clerk Sent te Reforma- tory for Stealing Twe Clockn. Irving Margolis, No. 592 Powell Street, Brooklyn, was sentenced to-day in the Court of Special Sessions to an indef- nite term in the city reformatory on his plea of guilty to the charge of stealing two clocks from his employer, J. J Scrulker, a jeweller at No. 133 Canal Street. A probation officer reported that Magnolis’s pay was $36 a week and that he had received $900 bonus Christmas. Tt was said that he had stolen large quantities of goods from his employer and had kept two bank accounts. He said he spent the money In cabarets and horse races. — AMERICAN MARINES SENT TO GUARD TOWN Peking DAachment to Prevent Vio~ lence by Fleeing Army. WASHINGTON, May 5.+A detach- ment of American marines has been despatched to Tung Chow, about fifteen imfles from Peking, to guard against possible violence by retreating Chang Tso Lin troops, American Minister Schurman at Peking notified the State Department to-day. 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