The evening world. Newspaper, May 26, 1922, Page 3

> MRS. ROBERTSON [ad Hatter Winning the Metropolitan Handicap As Society Attend * PLANNED HOLDUP ATMPALPN HOTEL Witness Swears Fake Rob- bery Was to Have Been Staged in Hostelry. SHY OF GOTHAM COPS. John Bailey, on Stand, Says He Refused to “Pull Job” Here. | (Special From Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) FREEHOLD, N. J., May 26,—John Bailey, who has confessed he was em- ployed. by Mrs. Sarah 1, Robertson of Deal to hold-up her and her guests Feb. 18 so-she might make a $52,000 claim for insurance for the loss of her Jewels, went on the stand here to-day in the Monmouth County Court as a witness for the State in Mrs. Robert- son's trial on charges of larceny and conspiracy to defraud Lioyd's of Lon- don. He testified that last November Samuel Gasn engaged him to enact the part of a hold-up man, using a Pistol to ‘force’? Mrs. Robertson and other guests to ‘shell out.’ He said it was planned to make the robbery’ Nov. 80 or Dec. called off. "There was to be a key under the mat for me to get in with,” he test!- fied. ‘Mrs. Robertson was to hand mo her bag. One other guest, a man © from Belmar with an arm broken, : would offer no resistance; he was in * On it.’’ In the middle of December, Bailey testified, the plans were changed to hold up the apartment of Mrs. Flor- ence E, Pelletreu at No. 225 West 86th Street, pose as a real estate agent threatening also to’kidnap Mrs. Pel letreu's son “I would. not tackle that. I didn’t want to try it In New York. I also refused to try a job in the Hotel Mc- Alpin, where Mrs. Robertson was to be."’ he testified. The plans then were made to rob the house at Deal on the night of Feb. 18, he said. “I got to the house and saw every: body laughing; that was the signal, he continued. ' When he got in the house, where “ D. F. Meyer, Edward Lazarus, H. C. Taber and Miss Olive Robinson were guests of Mrs. Robertson, Bailey said hhe pointed his gun and commanded everybody to “shell out.” ‘Mrs. Robertson threw her pocket- Book at me," he testified. “It had paper in it. All the money T was to get was to go to me. I told Meyer to ‘shell but,’ but Mrs. Robertson shook her head. She raised her hand and 1 left.” The witness testified he carried revolver and wore a mask. The re- * volver was a .25 calibre automatic, the mask a handkerchief with two holes cut in it The witness put on the mask and Mrs. Robertson joined in the laughter of the courtroom. Irs. Robertson didn’t night of the hold-up, d Prosecutor Sexton. he opened the door wide, grinned, but her grin changed to a frightened expression," Bailey re- plied. He said he got $35 from Meyer and that he was to get $1,000 from Mrs. Robertson when she collected her in- surance. Mrs. Robertson seemed no more disturbed by his testimony than she did yesterday when Samuel Gasn was testifying to virtually the same st She wore a new costume consisting of a brown crepe dress embroidered with beads, brown shoes and stock- ings and a bandeau of tulle of the same color about her auburn hair A brown scarf was hung over hey , shoulders and she wore a bouquet of #weet peas fastened onit, Unlike yes terday, when she wore many jewels, she wore only one ring. She smiled radiantly at acquaintances. On cross-examination Bailey ad- mitted he told Andrew J. C. Stokes, Mrs. Robertson's counsel, that he knew everything was “all right” {when he saw that Meyer and Taber were at the house. He also admitted he never saw Mrs. Robertson before tthe night of the hold up. Bailey was asked if he met a man ‘ named Jackson Heming on the train the day after the robbery and said to 4 but both were laugh on the did she?" ask him, “I wish T had the haul Mey made last night.’ “No,"'’ the witness answered “Did you know Meyer and Taber were to be there at the house?’’ Mr. Stokes asked “T didn't know Meyer was to be there, but I knew Taber was," re- plied Bailey Mr. Stokes was attacked by Pros- ecutor xton and reprimanded by Judge Lawrence for his method of cross-examining the witness when he asked Bailey how many men he had killed, Sexton objected, and declared Mr Biokes to be ‘ignorant’ of law “That was highly improper, Mr Stokes,’ said Judge Lawrence, “If you do it again I'll discipline you." On redirect examination Bailey test! - fied that Stokes came to him in jail and asked him to write Meyer, saying }ihat if he didn’t get him out of jail he would “tell all.” He said he didn't write the letter Mrs. Harriet Weiss of Long Branch testified Mrs. Robertson had used her § telephone on the night of the robbery fo notify the insurance company that she had been held up. Then, she continued, Mrs. Robertson stayed and played cards. The witness suid they Ii had a pleasant evening. Mrs. did mot acem upact, she a MRS FRANK C HENOERSON. FASHION DISPLAYED At WHY ASK WIVES TO “OBEY;” NEVER DO, SAYS JUSTICE “Love, Serve, Honor Keep,” Is Marriage For- mula of Magistrate. NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y., May 26. Judge Charles H. Piper has elim- inated the word "obey from the marriage ceremonies performed by him as Police Justice. “Wives never obey bands, anyway," their hus- said the Judge, “so why make the ceremony ridic- ulous tion?"* The Judge requires the bride to promise that she will ‘love, serve, in by including that injune- honor sickne nd keep her husband is and in health,"’ continued, but Mr. Meye what nervous. H. C. Taber of Belmar, one of Mrs. Robertson's guests on the night of Feb, 18, testified he had been asked by Gasn if he would participate as a witness for a fake hold-up to be held at Mrs, Robertson's house Dec. 1. “I hofd him I wouldn't do it,” Taber testified. He was asked by Mrs, Rob- was some- ertson to come to her house Feb. 18, continued, the message coming through Gasn, who said Mrs, Robert- son wanted to see him on business. It was not believed Mrs. Robertson woul dtestify in her own defense to- day as the Prosector announced that he had still ten witnesses to call for the State ASKS CITY TO PURCHASE THE LITCHFIELD PLOT Kings County Histertenl Soctety Proposes Battle Memo: Charles A, Ditmas, President of the Kings County Historical Society, and George A. Tiffany appeared before the Board of Estimate to-day to urge the acquisition by the city, as a memo- rial park, of the block bounded by Fourth Avenue, ‘Third Street and Fifth Avenue and Fifth Streets, Bbrooktyn, known as the Litchfield property. “The greaiest fighting of the Bat- tle of Long slang took pl this spot,” said Mr. Ditmas pat rlots are buried there. should be preserved by the city a memorial park or playground Brooklyn Borough Prosident Rlegel- man said the only step that be can taken now to acauire the Litchileld property ts to appeal to lot purchasers there not to build until the city has decided whether or not the land should be acquire. —_ TWO BROOKLYN CHURCHES TO CONSOLIDATE, Justice Faber in Supreme Court, Brooklyn, to-day signed an order au- thorizing the consolidation of the Bed- ford Heights and Sumner Avenue Bap- tist churches under the designation of the Trinity Baptist Church, The site of the new congregation was not indi- 1 in the petition, which stated that congregations of both churches de- the change. at the sire COAL STRIKE CO AWAY FOR WE Union officials and anthracite opera- tors, conferring attempt to end the coal strike to-day, adjourned next Friday without a further Jon of the miners’ reply to the of the operators a 21 per cent. reduction, in a until diseus- for wage cowl FREES FATHER OF 30YS CONFESSION MURDER CHARGE Clarence Schmei Admits He Saw Brother Drown Himself After Fleeing Home. John Schmei is back on his farm near Tuckerton, N. J., to-day, having been exonerated of the death of his ten-year-old son, Henry, through the story of Clarence, his sixteen-year- old son. The father had been arrested Tuesday after the body of Henry was found in a little lake near his home. Clarence was taken as @ witness yesterday and after he had told how Henry jumped into the lake, Prose- cutor Jayne of Lakewood ordered the father's release. The Prosecutor is- sued this statement: The story told by Clarence was greatly different from that of his father, and 1 sent a country officer to Tuckerton, who brought the boy back to the County Jail at Tom's River, where his father was held, “There Ellis Parker, noted detec- tive from Burlington County, and | questioned the boy in the presence of his father. The youth broke down and, while sobbing, told the following sto’ “On the afternoon of Henry's dis- appearance, upon Henry's arrival home from school I told father a lie in order to-sco Henry, who I dis- liked, get a beating, Henry went to the house and changed his clothes and then came in the back yatd and father ran. after him ss the field. My brother outran d I took up the pursuit. 1 © into the woods near t vke and he van directly in, the disectiom of the water, é 1 was aovut feet be: hind Henry jumped from the bank of the lake and disappearsa beneath the hassocs. stayed att spot for some time and then el!mbed a tree overhanging t Ke, expect jing that { might brother's Hoody bene the muddy surface. However body failed to come to the top and I was afrail to go home for fear of my father and afraid that L would be arrested “‘T stayed out until after dark and then decided I would home and tell my parents [ did not see Henry I have stuck to the lie since the very beginning, but now I am telling the truth.’ ”” The boy related him he had visited the spot times since the day of the disappe on one of these trips t! of the Prose- cutor's office saw mb the tree. five > —_—- SLAIN AS HE SAT ON STOOP. James Tierney, sixteen, of No. 303 West lth Street, was shot and killed while he was sitting on the stoop of the National Bisewt Company Bullding. No. 420 West 16th Street, at 10.90 o'clock } last on ss tf N revoly © found in hallway of 9 } tenon treet } into w nia afer the shot was 6 jents of the bléck told the police. BELMONT PARK.. re THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, MAY 26, 1922, s the Opening of Belmont Park MAD HATTER . WINNI vitene POLITAN -SE8> = NG METRO HANDICAP + ++ Tries Cave Man Life at Tender “Dangerous Ages,” Show, to Be Given on June 2 and 3. Barnard College, June 6, it was Eve bacher of No. will be given, Edith J. Cahn gift to the college, following Beta Kappa elections. senior show ho® Th inciudes to be gi » June 2 and 3 M. Senior Evelyn Orne of No. 18 Clyde Street, Jamaica, will give the vale- dictory at the class day exercises at an- nounced to-day. M. Jacoby of No. 139 Claremont Avenue, senior class President, will give the saluta- Helen Warren of Perth Am y, N. J., is class historian Following the class history, 4 prophecy, arranged by Roberta Dun 628 West 151st Street ot Lawrence, L. I., will present the class which Vivian Tappan will announce the Phi ‘Dangerous Ages’ is the title of the en in Brincker he cast ve Jacoby, Margot Emerson, Robert Dunbacher, lva Hutchison, Isabel Strang, Eva (lo Louise Schlichting, Helen Helen Dayton, icanor Starke, Pearl ) Josephson, Veera and Elsie Johnson uerite Gerdau 14 Chairman Margaret Wach Sworts ot the show committee and Heien Day ton, Lila North and Jane Dewey have charge of tne staging, costur tronesses Students’ at Hall the senior June 6. dance FRANCE, Among those on board liner Rochambeau, which arrived f ng and Ughting, Margaret Talley is business manage President and Mrs, Nicholas Murra er, Prof and Mrs, Jacoby, M and Mrs. Cahn, Mr. and Mrs. Lowe br, and Mrs. Griffin, Miss Bird Lar son, Miss Myrick, Miss Wee ! Miss Abbott will be patrons and pa in = eterna tmace ACADIAN HISTORIAN BACK FROM Havre to-day, was the Rev. Ii Prince Beaude, a lecturer at § p |Hall, Montreal. Some time ago th priest took to France, to be pre Hl to the French Academy, his “His of the Acadians,” a work ¢ d after eight years of reseayc jrald to be the first complete lof the p ATOM jof shit ! \ r made a member of the French Lyi Uclewa, BUT OWNERS FLEE Thirty-Three Families Routed by Smoke and Fumes of Alcohol, ment Street al After blaze the BARNARD PROGRAM FIRE IN TENEMENT ANNOUNCED FOR | DISCLOSES ILS, GLASS. EXERGSE Following an explosion that blew out all the windows of a thr on the second floor of the story tenement at No. 6 t noon to-day, firemen Policemen Gleason East 126th Street Station investi gated the apartment and found it bare and Age of 10 Years But Hoboken Lad Is Cured When Ilis Victuals Are Entirely Consumed. Michael Ribaudo of Hoboken start- ed out to be a cave man at the ten- jer age of ten and enjoyed the expe- rience for thirty-four hours, He ts at hig home, No. 314 Monroe Street, to-day, probably cured of his ond- 88 for running away He started for Public School No, 9 Wednesday morning, but thought better of it and wandered off to We hawken, making a stand at last In a rocky, wooded stretch knows as Wee- hawken Cliffs. He had bought some bacon, sausage and bread for the ad room apart- “ix Kast 117th fire started venture, and in the woods he made a a nave, which flooded the building with thick The adventure went very well until smoke and a strong odor of alcohol. |11 o'clock last mght when all the The thirty-three families in the build-]provisions save a sandwich were ing were driven from their apart-]gone, Then he ventured into the iments, those on the upper floors es-|street, munching last few iping by way of the roof. rumbs, John Schuster, who lives in had extinguished the] Kingwood Avenue, found him and took him to Weehawken Police Head- jarters. His father was notified HETTRICK CASE and Leary of of furniture, but equipped with two galvanized stills about four feet high TO JURY TO-DAY twenty flve-gallon cans of alcohol, a : barrel of Hauid that smetied like aleo-|Counsel on Both Sides Sums hol and the remnants of about a dozen Up in the Conspiracy ans that had contained alcohol and rie 4 had contributed their contents to the Prial { fire rtuatly all of today's session in The tenants were unanimous in say- | ne eee Gane i annae ieee ing that they did not know who occu-land others ‘on indicunents pied the apartment. Two strange men [conspiracy to: ¢ avant have been seen entering id loaving, [fitters into joinir Hett hey said. yractice" system, was sper Seen nel in the caso in 7 i case probab! 1 go to th DON’T HURL BRICKS, we DES DAD Ly yl ) ufternoon , LAY ’EM, SAYS HAYS] Max D. Steuer sir 1 his summa wal tion shortly before noon, a ad Movie Dictator Sees Pros- sing the Jury ea of Hib 5 : nt. Charles G, Witherspoon, and perity for Country Just other four de Former Ahead of Us. Henator Martin Sheridan, represent ng Martin Mecux John M. tins PITTSBURGH, Pa. May 26.—Il not two of the defemanta, followed ‘prosperity is right ahead of us and it] Mr. Steuer s time togoout and meet it, Will H.] Deputy Attorney General Chambers Hays, President of the Motion Pic-|!!! sum up’ for the 1 Dn this sfternoo: us esti [ture Producers and Distributors of /ANCTHOMN. Justice | aa | America, declared to-day in Carnegie |take about forts. ti - institute here — ‘Let us lay belcks, not throw | GIRES F NBR (BLAST ES 7 NEWARK GAKAGE them," he sald, “I cry continnally| pire caused at rm for the common sens ace;| garene Ot Hamel OPPOSE “DEAD END OF NEW SUBWAY AT POLO GROUNDS Washington Heights Wants B. R. T. to Extend Along St. Nicholas Avenue. Considerable opposition “dead ending” at the Polo Grounds the B R. T. Central Park West proposed ex- tension of the Broadway subway was expressed to-day by representatives of several associations of Washington Heights, who want the extension to ko up Eighth Avenuo instead of Sev- enth from 110th Street to 12ist Street, Nicholas Avenue 176th eet and up Fort Washington Ave- fo 187th The Washington Heights represen- tatives, whom Mayer C. Goldman, Reginald Pelham Bolton, Henry Pasternack, former Alderman James Forest, Charles 8. Lubin and along St. St nu Street among were others, ull favored the Transit Com- mission's plan, but opposed the. 7th Avenue and 155th Street terminun. They were a unit in advocating that the B. R. T. extension from Colum- bus Clrele should serve Washington Heights so 4s to give to that section both a B. R. T. and I. R. T. service. Mr. Bolton, an engineer, who ap- peared for the Washington Heights Chamber of Commerce, sald the present plan of terminating the ex- tension at 155th Street near the Polo Grounds would benefit the 120,000 Negroes in Harlem and the transients who go to the Polo Grounds. Ho said he was not adverse to serving the Negroes in Harlem, but added “L think there are some things more !m- portant than ‘baseball parks” John J. Walkee of the Bedford Heights (Brooklyn) Board of Trade was also against the 155th Street terminus, Mr. Walker said that Brooklynites wanted to get quick access to the au- tomobile section along Central Park West, north of Columbus Circle, and he thought, too, that they wanted to go to Washington Heights more than to Harlem, and ‘‘the only ad- vantage in the Seventh Avenue ter- minal will be to our colored friends in Harlem, who want to use the B. R, T. service to Coney Island." Copeland Townsend, President of! the Central Park West and Columbu: Avenue Association, favored the pro- posed route up Central Park West, but thought the terminal should be in Washington Heights. Mr. Town- send was not in accord with the pro- posed trunk Hine up Eighth and Am- sterdam Avenues, for the reason, he said, that the Broadway line served the territory to be served by the pro- posed west side trunk line. Harry Pasternack, a department store owner in Washington Heights, said the Chamber of Commerce of Washington Heights had circulated a petition and obtained 100,000 signa- tures pleading for the St. Nicholas Avenue route instead of the Polo Grounds terminus. Dudley Harde favored the west side trunk line up Eighth and Amsterdam Avenues, but wanted the terminal ex- tended from 181st Street to Dyckman Street At the conclusion of the hearing, Mr. Goldman thanked the Transit Commissioners for holding the public hearing and said the Commission was approaching the problem of rapid transit in the right spirit, He sald the criticisms directed at the plan were constructive only, and not in any sense against the general scheme of unification of the traction systems. CRAIG WINS VICTORY FOR QUEENS PEOPLE Reduces 40 Per Cent. Tax to 20 for Extension of Northern Boulevard. Vomptroller Craig was given ovation by residents from Queens to lay when he succeeded in reversing 4 report of the Committee on Assess- ments which would have imposed 40 ber cent. of the cost of the widening and improvement of the Northern Houlevard on the {mmediate neighbor- hood. The Comptroller belleved that inasmuch as the people in the imme Hate neighborhood of the Improve ment are opposed to it, but would prefer assessments for sewers and other much needed developments they should not be taxed more than 0 per cent. for the boulevard, ‘The Estimate Board voted to sustain the Comptroller, The borough will pay 30 per cent. and the city at least 50 per cent 1 reversal of the assessors’ ro port was brought about by Mr, Craig after a large delegation of Queens ‘operty ownera had vigorously pro that the extending of Norther ward did not initiate with them; it benefited only Sunday who travel into Nassau County, and that they would be will ng to pay almost any amount for the laying out of streets and the on of up-to-date sewers an that in stalla in stead The extension otherwise known Rroadway-Jackson Avenue, will be 100 feet wide and will run from Ceme tery. Lane to the eastern (boundary the olty Saleen 5,000 POLICEMEN TO HAVE CoM MUNION BREAK 4S" ‘The branch of Holy Name Society of the Police Department, Brooklyn ani! Queens rections, will hold thelr annual communion breakfast on June 1. at Trommers, Bushwick Parkway and ¢ way Street. It is expected 5,000 polic 1) Will be tn attendance © polly + 1 rides, Broadway a@ Aberdeen Street. They will receive co ‘Harlem Offic munion and then go to the breakfast, wa UNTERMYER TELLS UNION ORGANIZER Hints at Criminal Proceedings in Alleged Conspiracy— Granite Body Dissolves. muel Untermyer interrupted the examination of Jacob Goldstone, eral organizer of the Bakers gen. and Con- fectioners’ Union of America to-day to make this threat “I will give you until to-night to close the union store in Avenue U."* The intimation was that criminal proceedings would be taken againet Goldstone and local officers of th Jewish Bakers’ union charging con spiracy to ruin Max Schlesinger of No. 29 Avenue C, and others Testimony to which prove the extent t: unton methods can go it tyranny and ruthiessness, with the Jewish bakers as an example, has been taken at length in order to im- press upon the committee the need for a state regulation of the finances of building trade unions and thelr actions which affect other than union members and employers Schlesinger yesterday said he had sought permission to discharge a baker because of the falling off of his business, When he became insist- ent ard took the matter before the Executive Board he said a strike was ordered on his place and a boyeott was enforced by a picket, made up of his former employees aided by hundreds of men, women and Boys. He obtained an Injunction and the union opened a rival bakery, in which it sold bread and rolls far below the cost of mannufacture, ruining him and other bakers in the vicinity, He was also informed that # heavy fine -had been imposed tipon, him, the amount of which, though kept secret, was so great that tt would prevent him earning his Mving as a journeyman baker should he try to re-enter the union after his bust- ness as a master baker had been ruined. Goldstone testified that the unton had rated a fund of $15,000 to es- tablish the punitive union bakery. He said the international union had tried in vain to persuade the Iqcal uniona to agree to arbitration with the master Jewish bakers and that the international union could not dictate to the locals, Daniel H. Brown, No. Avenue, Brooklyn, a granite con- tractor, testified that he was a member of the firm of John Brown é& Son of Peekskill, N. ¥., with loc: offices at 4ist Street and Ryder Avenue, the Bronx. He declared that a meeting Saturday afternoon of, the Butlding Franite Manufacturers’ As sociation, at which all members were 495 Eighth clther present or represented, by proxy, the association unanimously voted to dissolv> at once ind in struted its counsel to draw. up Ob necessary pape: Mr. Untermy the recar, a letter r ived Architer tural Iron and Bronze A tie which held a meeting May 18 ca (hi cago, with eight members present, and voted to dissolve Frank C. Perkins, Commissioner « Public Affairs of Buffalo, was the ng witness, He was called in conneecir with the matter of vari vor and recommendations for — public schools in Buffalo, Mr. erkins pant that a recommendation of the Bear of Education for $8,000,000 in 1919 for new school buildings was increased to $14,754,751 in 1921, Later, Mr. Per- kins said, with additional ajlowances for equipment and other changes, the amount was increased to $19,867,801 It was brought out that a substitute recommendation was later made to the City Council which amounted to between ten and eleven million dol- lars. Mr, Untermyer said that many bids were rejected following the last visit to Buffalo of the Lockwood com- mittee. ee UA “DIAMOND WORTH $400” PROVES TO BE BAUBLE ot No. Emil Valda 247 West 42d Street, Manhattan, was found guilty of grand larceny in the second degree bes fore County Judge MacMahon and a jury in Brooklyn to-day, ‘The eom- plainant was Joseph Gill, proprietor of and hotel at Brooklyn, 4 restaurar No. 355 Pure man Street, Gill said that on April 19 Vatda of. fered him a stone he sald @ din- mond worth $400 for $200. bought it. Later he learned it was a plece of glaes, he said. rhe next day Vatda telephoned Gill he had another s to sell. Gill told bring and when Valda called a man, Vaid will he sentenced Monday Until _you’ve tasted Ancre Cheese you can’t know how delicious a rich, cream cheese flavored with genuine Roquefort, really is. 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