The evening world. Newspaper, May 27, 1922, Page 1

a a hae aaa — ss ES HAPPENS IN NEW YORK IT’S IN THE EVETIING WORLD” yet ? E SS MRS. ROBERTSON CONFESSED, MAN SWEARS ON STAND Insurance gent ‘Testifies Widow Admitted, Then De- nied Plotting Holdup. GEM RECOVERY TOLD. Gerard Luisi Declares Accused Woman Revealed Where Jewels Were Hidden. (Special From a Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) FREEHOLD, N. J. Me Mrs. Sarah 1.. Robertson mfde a confes- sion and repudiated it the same day that the robber: faked, it was w of her jewelry was tifled to-day in the Monmouth Cgunty Court by Gerard Luisi, investigator for Iloyds of London, who charged Mrs. Robertson conspired to defraud them of $52,000 oinsurarce The alleged confession was made Feb. four days after the hold-up in Mi Robertson’s home at Deal, the witness stated. He testified that he told her his investigations showed she was in collusion with the hold-up XTRA VOL. LXIr. No. _92,060—DAILY. said, ‘Why were you so cruel and mean not to tell me you suspect- ed me? I would have withdrawn the ot * he testified. Then,’ Mr. Luisi continued, “she said, ‘If I'd tell you where the Jew- eiry is would you drop the claim against me?" “I told her I had made no charge and asked her why she didn’t. “She sald a man tn New York had put up the whole job. She said he was a New York man, and wanted to know what would happen to her if she'd take us to where the jewelry was.”” The witness stated Prosecutor Sex- ton was along, but would make no promises she jas arrested, he con- tinued, and while Mrs. Robertson was trying to make arrangements over the telephone at the Coleman House, As- bury Park, for bail. Mr. Luisi testi- fied she told him Samuel Gasn had suggested the robbery six months previously. She said, he continued, that she at first laughed at the sug- gestion but finally consented, ‘not thinking Gasn would pull it off," he quoted her. ‘They were interrupted, he went on, by a telephone call for Mrs. Robert- She went to no’ son. + Hye" the phone, said several times and and (Continued on Fifth Page.) _ “EVERY SING ‘SING CELL NOW FILLED : BY CRIME WAVE Prison Overerowded Owing to Numerous Convictions From This City. So many new guests have regis- tered with Landlord Lewis E, Hawes of Sing Sing this week that there are no more accommo- dations to be had‘at the prison. Rarely In late years have there not been cells and bunks enough to accommodate every prisoner in Sing Sing. As a result of the in- flux of those recently sentenced in this city, there are 1,216 pris- oneré in Sing Sing to-day. There are sleeping quarters for 1,200. Charles F. Rattigan, Superin- tendent of Prisons, will have, forty or more prisoners trans ferred to an up-State prison to relieve the congestion in Sing Sing. New arrivals have been av- eraging about six a day for two weeks the a DIES AT REPUTED AGE OF 120 YEARS. GLOBE, Ariz, May 27.—Mrs. Ignacia Vasquez, said to be 120 years old, died here yesterday. She was six feet tall and in her youth was noted for her beauty and physique. The eldest of her three sons is eighty-seven. The Copyright Publis! BEATRICE HOLT WEDs TO-DAY AT COUNTRY HOME MISS BEATRICE HOLT. Daughter of Hamilton Holt Will Become Mrs. Brand- reth Symonds Jr. Miss Beatrice Holt, daughter of Mr. und Mrs. Hamilton Holt, will be mar- ried this afternoon to Brandreth Sy- monds jr. at Sunset, the country home of her parents in Woodstock, Conn. Mr. Holt, the bride's futher, is & well known editor and publisher and one of tho founders of the Wilson Foundation. The Holt city home ts No. 163 West 73d Street. “ANSWER DUNDEE,” ULTIMATUM GIVEN JOHNNY KILBANE Commission Says Champion Has Been Properly Chal- lenged by Contender. H. P. Burchell, Secretary of the State Athletic Commission, announced to-day that the commission has de- cided that unless Johnny Kilbane, challenged legitimately py Johnny Dundee (chalienge dated Feb. 23, ac: companied by proper forfeit), knowledges such challenge properly, the featherweight championship shall be declared open for competition to all boxers who qualify. “In fact,"’ says the statement, “any champion licensed by this commis- ac- sion who fails to comply with the conditions of challenged and chal- lenger, made under proper auspices, will forfeit all right and title to his championship, and his license as a boxer in this State will be suspended. “The commission is determined that al Irecognized champions must defend their titles at least once in six months as the rules require, “Championship titles lost or for- feited under these conditions are open for competition between afl boxers whose weights qualify them for the respective classes,”’ phat: SPECTATOR DROPS DEAD AS HOLDERNESS WINS ENGLISH GOLF TITLE. PRESTWICK, May 27 (Associated Press).—E. W. Holderness of Walton Heatfi, to-day won the British ama- teurigolt championship be defeating Joh& Waven of Cochran Castle, Scot- land, one up in the final round this afternoon. The closeness of the competition be- came s0 nerve-racking during the af- ternoon round that one of the specta- tors, overcome by excitement, drop- ped dead near the sixty green. ww York World) by Press ing Company, 1922. BROADWAY DINERS FLEE AS DRYSBEGIN As Caplaty, tn Repent : bi RAID ONM MURRAY’ 5 Sympathetic Attitude of Washington Fans As- sures Bambino of Warm Welcome—Man- ager Huggins Silent About Successor. White Light ‘District in Tur- moil as Police Search Many Restaurants. WASHINGTON, May 27.—The line- up of the New York Yankees for to- day's game here included Babe Ruth SS ey = , |but no field captain. Manager Hug- sf 5) SOME FOUND EMPTY.Jeins nas made no announcement of Ruth's successor us fleld leader. News Travels Fast, but Ten], Te New York manager, on recely- ing word late yest of the penalty imposed on Ruth ‘by Ban Johnson, ident of the American League, for allenging to combat a speptator ut ame in New York Thursday, in addition to his removal as of the team carried a $200 declined to discuss his probable ction of a successor. esident Johnson's ruling auto- matically removes the suspension which kept Ruth out of the game hers yesterday, which he watched his team mates lose, 8 to 1, by failure to cope with Zachary’s twisters. Manager Huggins announced at once that the home run king would be back in the ame to-day The sympathetic attitude evinced by Washington fans when Ruth ap- peared at batting practice yesterday assured him of a warm welcome on his return to the line-up Babe Ruth {s repentant worrled to-day. “['m sorry I lost my temper,’ said RESOLUTE DOCKS WITH HEAVY LIST TO HER PORT SIDE Luggage and Passengers Are Shifted to Starboard to Aid in Balance. Prisoners and Much Liquor Fall Into Net. which captain fine, Crowds in restaurants and alleged “speak easies’’ last night and early to-day in the bright light district be- tween 42d and 50th streets and Sixth and Eighth avenues got a surprise when detectives under command of Inspectors Underhill and Bolan staged a series of raids which netted several prisoners and much wine, whiskey and gin. In only one place did the detectives eticounter any troubie. © In Murray's Roman Gardens, Nos. 228-232 West 42d Street, an elevator operator re- fused to open the door of a room on the second floor. He was arrested and charged with interfering with an of- ficer executing a warrant The detectives had search warrants they had obtuined from Justice " ney of the Supreme Court. ~Amaze- ment on the part of the crowds and employees in the various places vis- ited greeted the detectives. News of the aids travelled 60 swiftly that when the detectives reached some of the places for which they had search warrants they found them empty of patrons and contra- band, Lawyers, bondsmen and others in- terested in restaurants, “speak easies” and saloons crowded West 47th Street Police Station to learn the reason for the sudden activity on the part of the police. The streets in front of the raided places were filled with late diners and belated homegoers. but un- er- The Resolute of the United Ameri- The first news the police had|can Line had suoh a list to port when search warrants and intended \to]ghe came up to her plier at the foot make raids came when Detectives of West 46th Street to-day from Hamburg that extraordinary ures were taken to shift weight to the starboard side. Starboard life- boats were swung out on their davits, luggage was shifted to star- board, and passengers, 492 of them, and Moran of In- spector Underhill's staff, entered Murray's Roman Gardens. There were about 500 diners tn the place. Detective Lavender, who had a “J. Doe’ warrant for the arrest of a waiter who he alleged served him with a half pint of whiskey for $7 Lavender, Rinche meas- last Wednesday,.while he was dining | Were ordered to remain on star- with a woman detective, sat at aj board. table. He says he asked James Mc- To laymen the list looked like thirty degrees, but Capt. Daniel Mal- man said it was only ten and was due to more fuel oil on the port side than on the other. A mishap at sea May 25 caused a delay of eleven hours. This was the splitting of two condensers. The Nieuw Amsterdam passed and sig- nalled her then, but the Resolute beat the Niuew Amsterdam in. Guire, thirty-nine 465 West 50th (Continued on Fifth Page.) WORLD FLYERS OFF FOR TURIN Leave Paris for Italy, Omit- ; S Mrs. T. Reade Ryan, whose hus- ting Stop at band is a member of the American Lyons. Reparations Commission, was a pas- - mG ann » aq |senger, with her daughter Virginia LE BOURGET, France. Say 27 snide esta to cinieaec) Mra. oey (Associated Press)—-Major W. T.} our B. Conger, wife of the Berlin Blake, the British aviator, and his}correspondent of the Philadelphia companions in the attempted fiight|Public Ledger, was aboard with her children, Seymour jr., Kyril and around the world took the air at 10.45 o'clock this morning for Turin, Italy, on the second leg of their journey, ‘The itinerary called for a stop at Lyons, but the airmen, three days be- hind their schedule due to delay here, decided to attempt a direct flight to Turin The DH-9 Was accompanied by « second plane, which arrived last night from England with spare parts for which Major Blake had been waiting, The DH-9 was thoroughly overhauled before taking the air, From Turin the aviators plan to fly to Rome. Wiliiam Another passenger was Mrs. Liflian Kohihammer, for two years with the American Relief Administration in Germany and Austria. “In Austria,’ she sald, ‘‘people are starving behind fine lace curtains 5 o’Clock * To-Day CLOSING TIME SUNDAY. "WORLD CLASSIFIED ADs. POSITIVELY NO ADVERTISEMENTS ACCEPTED AFTER 6 P, M. FOR TO-MORROW'S BUNDAY \WKLD. BRANCH OFFICES CLOSE EARLIER. > HE WORLD TRAVEL Arcades Pultzer (World) Birk How, N.Y. City. . Tel 4000. Check room for ba. open day and night, {ravellers' checks for NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 27, IN JAIL; WAITS $50,000 BAIL the Bambino, “but I'm not worrying about losing the captaincy. This captain business never got me any- where, anyway. I'm through worry- ing now. The only thing I want to do is to play ball and do my best to beat my home run record of last year.” CHICAGO, May 27 (Associated Press).—Babe Ruth was fined $200 and removed from the Captaincy of the New York Club by Ban Johnson, President of the American League, yesterday afternoon. Johnson's finding automatically re- moves the ruling that Ruth wis in- eligible to play, which was promul- gated by the American League head pending a full investigation. The full ruling follow “The Ruth incident in New York on Thursday is much to be regretted. The player's conduct was highly rep- rehensible, but when all the facts are weighed there is a measure of con- sideration for him, {Ruth*bad just finished a sentence of unprecedented severity, rinning through a period of thirty-nine days of suspension which disqualified him from practice with his team prior to the commencement of a (Continued on Fifth Page.) CITY MUST NOT RUN CROSS TOWN BUSES ON GOTH ST. ROUTE Justice Delahanty Rules There Is No Emergency for Com- petition With Belt Line. Justice Francis B. Delehanty of the Supreme Court this afternoon handed down a decision granting an injunc- tion restraining the City of New York, and particularly the Department of Plant and Structures, from operating a bus line on 65th Street in this city. The decision follows an application for the restraining order by the Belt Line Railway, acting as a taxpayer and railroad corporation. The matter was argued at length before Justice Delehanty in April last. Going into a history of the author- ization by the Board of Estimate and Apportionment to Commissioner Grover Whalen to arrange for the operation of the bus line, Justice Dele- hanty shows that the city receives no profit from the operation of the bus line but that it pays the salartes of Superintendents" and ‘starters’’ for their operation, the catual cost to the city bein gni the neighborhood of $46,- 000 a year. Justice Delehanty holds that no “emergency” exists whereby the police powers of the city can be called into play for the operation of the bus line. In his decision Justice Delehanty says, in part: “The only defense interposed by the city is the plea that an emergency exists In the traneit situation in New York City and that requests have been made by citizens and organiza- tions located near the 65th Street crosstown line for the establishment of that line, and that there is a ne nessity therefor. “Counsel for the city calls atten- tion to the discontinuance of lines, and parts of lines, of transportation in different parts of the city, but there is no claim, and no proof, that the 65th Street cross town line of motor buses takes the place of any abandoned line in or near the street in question. Neither bankruptcy nor the disintegration of any transpor- tation line has affected this new line. No gmergency exists. An emergency is something sudden, unexpected, call- Ing for immediate action urgent and pressing, 1922, Office, INFIRE AS FATHER FAILS AT RESCUE sa gues Man Saves Wife; Unable to Re-enter Burning Home for Li ittle Ones. R CUE Stream of Water Played on Chief So He Can Search House. FIREMEN SIX. Paul Kypket and his wife, Mary, returned to thelr home in the two- story building at the rear of No, 62 Canal Street, City, Jersey from a party at 2 A. M. to-day and started a fire in the kitchen stove to make coffee. They saw that their four children were asleep, and went to bed. Soon after they fell asleep the wind blew some Wrying clothes against the kitchen stove and started a fire, At 4 A. M, Charles Brown of No, 326 Grand Street saw flames Issuing from the window and gave the alarm. Kypket took his wife and two of the children to the street, but when he tried to return and rescue Michael, nine, and Catherine, one year old, the fire had cut him off. One couple with their four children were curried down from the second floor on ladders by firemen of Truck No. 6, but Michael Sack, twenty- eight, didn’t wait and jumped from # second-story window Battalion Chief John Daly, under the protection of streams of water, worked his way into the Kypket apartment and found Michavl in a burning erib in the bedroom, ani Catherine in u blazing baby carriage in the kitehen. Both had been burned to death Paul Kypket, the father, was treat- ed for lacerations of the hand re- ceived while breaking a window to al’ his wife and the two surviving chil- dren. Sack was uttended for shock and minor injuries due to his jump, ‘The fire was confined to the one apartment, doing little property dam- age. sy sdipemintionen REPORT OF CRANE'S ARREST DE- NIED OFFICIALLY, WASHINGTON, May 2.—The State Department to-day officially denied re- ports that Charles R, Crane, former American Minister to China, had been conyicted by French military tribunal of attempting to incite rioting in Syria and sentenced to twenty yéars in prison. The American © Sonsul at Beirut reports the story entirely unfounded and the French High Commissioner at Beirut has issued a denial. New York, Entered ‘an Sevond-Ciase Matter ae _PRICE THREE ‘CENTS ‘Babe’ Ruth Is Back in Game in epentans Mood “Babe” Ruth fs Back in Lineup {TWO CHILDREN DIE $501000 SET AS WARDS BAL: CORONER PLANS REARREST ON THe CHARGE OF KILLING Judge Seeger, Who Ruled on Ques- tion, Hesitates as to Whether the Slaying of Peters Was “Murder or Manslaughter. ’ Justice A. H. FP. Seeger, in Special Term of the Supreme Court at Newburgh to-day set the bail of Walter 5. Ward, charged on his own statement with killing Clarence Peters, at $50,000. Ralph D. Ward, the defendant's brother, got word of the fixing of the bail and went at once to White Plains jail where his brother was in a cell, carrying cash and Liberty bonds to cover the amount Late this afternoon Walter Ward was still in jail waiting for the arrival of the Justice's order from Newburgh. OO Orme «Coroner Fitzpatrick; who had fre TWO AUTOISTS HELD FOR YOUTH’S DEATH College Point Boy Killed When Car Struck Tree. Henry Schwartz of No, 853 Second Avenue and John Schieler of No. 204 Second Avenue, both of College Point, were held in the Flushing Magistrates’ Court to-day for exam- ination on June 6 on @ short aMdavit charging suspicion of homicide. Schwartz was the owner and driver of an automobile In which Clarence Thumm, seventeen, of No. 626 14th Street, College Point, was killed last night, when the car swerved and struck a tree. Thumm was thrown through the side winc »w, and received a fracture of the skull, He c.ed on the way to the Flushing Hospital. MURPHY AND MADER ORDERED RELEASED Chicago Labor Heads to Be Freed on $75,000 Bail Each. CHICAGO, May 27 (Ansociated Press).--""Big Tim’ Murphy and Fred Mader, described as the czars in what the police term a labor war, to- day were ordered released trom jail on bonds of $75,000 each. They had been confined in cells for eleven days after thelr arrest and indictment for the murder of Police Lieut. Terrence Lyons, one of two policemen shot to death May 9, while investigating bombings believed to be in protest of the Landis building trades wage award, McCormick-Baker Nuptials Put Off Until September Fiancee Again Has Wedding Postponed, After Several Delays Here and in France. PARIS, May 27.--The McCormick- Baker wedding has been deferred again. Allister McCormick announced to-day that the ceremony had been put off until September. Mary Tandon Baker, his fiancee, who left him “waiting at the church” in Chicago and asked for several other postponements in the nuptials, will go to London May 30, according to McCormick. “I will follow her ton later,"* he sald. “Everything is all right This will be better for us. McCormick followed Miss Baker to Europe after one of the numerous postponements in the United States. For some time after his arrival in Paris it was rumored that Miss Baker would request another delay, but both of them denied it and declared they would be married at once. Wedding arrangements were tenta- tively made. McCormick, who has followed his fiancee from town to town and made arrangements for the ceremony time after time, did not appear to be down- cast, He nanerted the engagement was not broken, that they loved each other and that they expected to be married—next September, sure. pared a warrant for the rearrest of Ward on a murder charge, as soon us bail is accepted, had a conference with District Attorney Weeks un dappar ently abandoned the plan and left for home. Ward remained in jail while his lawyers, Elwood M. Rabenold an‘ Allen R, Campbell went to Newburgls where Justice Seeger is sitting in Speolal Term. Justice Young in dis missing Ward's writ of habeas corpus in White Plains yesterday 1¢- ferred the case to Justice Seeger, who had first admitted Ward to bail in $10,000 and then ordered his arrest on the ground that the bail was in- sufficient, Mr, Campbell did the talking. He said that on the defendant's volun- tary admission that he shot Peters Coroner Fitzgerald had issuec a war- rant for manslaughter on which Jus tice Seeger fixed his ball at $10,000. For three days, Mr. Campbell said, the defendant kept in constant com- munication with the Sheriff. who lit erally knew where he was every hour One night he stayed away from home because he was annoyed by news paper reporters, but the Sheriff knew where he was. Nevertheless Mr Campbell sald, that one absence from home over night was probably the explanation for the insufficieney of ball. WARD'S STORY NOT SO GooDo Now. District Attorney Weeks, in reply. said that when Ward was first admit ted to bail there seemed to be no rea- son why his story of the killing of Peters should not be accepted, “Since then," he said, “that story has not looked so good to us. Whe we asked for explanations and ampli fications of his version of the killin: we were given to understand we couli take it or leave it. “This case Is as mysterious now it was the morning body was found on near the reservoir, “We are beginning to think that if the chance suggestion that Peters might be an ex-service man had not been followed and if it had not re sulted in the picking of his finger prints out of 500,000 on file at Wash ington, so that the body was proved on May 19 to be that of Clarence Peters, that we might never have heard of Mr. Ward, whose lawyers on that day made arrangements to meet us."* Mr. Weeks followed this direct thrust by saying that he thought bat! ought not io be less than $50,000. “Is the defendant able to furnish bail in that amount?” asked Justics Seeger. Mr. Campbell rose to reply, but sat down without saying anything, “It 1s impossible to say," continued the Justice, “whether thie in a case of murder or of manslaughter. Ti only witness is the defendant bh self and his statements must na! ally be considered with care bet they are accepted in full. I do wish to make the amount exces: but it must be sufficient to insure appesrance.- I think it should be sn! stantial. When the defendant was first arrested ball was fixed at « nominal sum, $10,000, because there was no reason to doubt his state- ws the unidentifie: the lonely roa: