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eet Re MEH ET: — + Night's Weather Weather—Showers. CLOSING Wii’ TABLES. “ Circul: ation Books Open to All” enn an mrnnnem eo + — —— —-- = LXII. NO. 22,086—DAILY. Copyright Tey York World) by Prese VOL. Publishing Company, 192%. i IF IT HAPPENS IN NEW YORK IT’S IN THE EVENING WORLD’ a BYSTANDER KILLED IN THUGS’ GUN ik NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 1922. Fost Office, Entered as Second. Class Matter New York, N. ¥. ‘Te-Marlew ‘. EWING Bh nt EDITION Like PRICE EB THREE CENTS Weath —thewe PAYROLLS OF CONGRESS — OF RELATIVES OF MEMBERS Wives, Sons, Daughters Split the #@ Appropriations for Secretary and Clerk Hire — Only a Few Do Any Real Work—New York Mem- bers Dig as Deeply Into the Pie as Members From Other Sections. North Water ter-Gap Uk (Pa.) Store- keeper and His Bride Found Shot in Heart. HER CLOTHI BURNED. Mrs. de Munt Was Miss Moore of Catskill, N. Y.—Had Lived in Weehawken. (From a Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) NORTH WATER GAP, Pa., June Frederick de Munt, thirty-five years old, and his bride of last April were found murdered this morning in their cottage adjoining the general store which they conducted for vaca- ) tion campers on the River Road. | N. B. de Munt, father of the store- (From a Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) WASHINGTON, June 27.—The practice of nepotism and grabbing by members of Congress of money appropriated for clerk hire has not im- Proved since The Evening World's expose of conditions a year and a half ago. Boise members guilty of these practices were defeated for office subse, to that time, put an examination of che latest repopt’ dye ie Sie Hise arcs lis Boa tcechen toc 1H House of Representatives and Secretary of the Senate fefoal sa | revert, ‘found the wtore closed with be ae members have quickly acquired the habit and that the’ practice’ tas customers standiitg-ahout! "Pie of aet Sid to the Senate side of the Capitel, the door of the cottage and discovered Neariy a dozen Senators row have members of their families on the| his son lying near the oor of the Federal payroll. Some of these relatives work in Senators’ offices and | bedroom, shot through the heart from give the Government value received for their compensation, but Investiga-| behind. The room was filled with tion shows that there are a number whose principal cuties consist of sign-|*Moke and the coverings of the bed were smouldering and flames were $ae the payroll twice a month. eating at the woodwork heside the bed. Formerly there was little of this practice on the Senate end of the|yfrs, de Munt, her clothing burned Capitol, but House members promoted to the Senate appear to have in-|from her body, lay on the charred troduced the system and it is growing in popularity. The wife of one| mattress. A bullet had been fired through her back in almost the same spot as that which her husband had been shot. A revolver with three empty cart- ridges and two with dented shells, showing (hat an effort had been made to fire them, Jay on the floor. wmator confided to a friend that the family planned to save enough out the clerical appropriation to educate their young daughter when she grew up. This Senator, who was formerly a House member, has had twenty years in Congress altogether, so that they have probably ac- cuniulated a neat sum for this purpose. Another way of imposing on the public treasury by Senators is the here was no other clue to the practice of placing men on their payrolls and aaving them do menig! work.| murderer nor was any found umons Under the technical classification of “messengers,” which covers practically |the acquaintances of the couple. exorytody employed in a Senator's office except his secretary or committee | Neither oar ee was, known to rk> men draw Federal pay who, for a portion of their time at least, are as chauffeurs and in other capacities at public expense. A Congressional paymaster remarked a few days ago that he paid ‘out enough unearned money under this vicious system to cover the entire oprating expenses of an ordinary American town. He had in mind the Hundreds of fat checks which are handed over or mailed out each pay day to persons who never do a lick of work for the Government. It fs in the House of Representatives where padding the payroll has become the most popular of indoor sports in'these days when we hear so much of “Government econom: There are more than 25 per cent. of tho members who indulge in the practice which has grown to be a national scandal. Frederick de Munt met his wife last winter in Weehawken, J., where they were both employed. She was Miss Maude E, Moore of Catskill, N. Y. They were noted for their cheer- ful obligingness to campers in emer- gencies. De Munt was a veteran of the World War. District Attorney Chester H. Rhodes of Monroe County was at once summoned and took charge of the investigation, which had been begun by Constable Shaeffer, The bodies were removed to the Morgue of J, H. Lanterman of East Strouds- burg. DUMMIES ON THE PAYROLL, Some of the members who are carrying dummies on the rolls and pocketing the money appropriated for clerk hire, it has been ascertained,| ARMY BILL REPORT ADOPTED BY SENATE (Continued on Twentteth Page.) Action Completed on Meas- Identity of Woman Dead in Paris ure ae Fisted Baffles Police; Gave N. Y. Address) wastiscros! sun | 27—con- cicasiohal’ action’ on the ‘ammual army ‘ "Mrs. appropriation bill providing for an Kohn of Riverside Drive,” Found] average army for the coming year of 125,000 enlisted men and 12,000 offi. : 2s 66 : x3 Poisoned, Said “Paris Got Me. sche oT HAL dD oleae PARIS, June 27.—The body of an unidentified woman, believed an] final adoption by the Senate of the American, lies in the Paris Morgue, while police and detectives confess conference report on the measure. themselves completely baffled by one of the strangest mysteries in years, . Smiling, the woman died from @ oning. She lingered for three Where to a her identity. Pee eeceaing bey. identity. mit sulcid but refusing to say why. S p e nd th e “Paris got me,” she said at one time, hope I don’t linger like Olive Fou rth of July The woman gave the name of Mrs. izabeth Kohn and her address as INo. 400 Riverside Drive, New York.| «1 She could not ba traced there, Then] Thomas and Mrs, Ryan," she said, he said she had a sister named|SMiling, on Friday, She referred to the famous American stage beauty, Mrs. Olive Thomas Pickford, and of ams, living on St, Paul Street, Bal- more. Cables there were returned Mrs. Thomas Ryan, wife of an Amer- newspaper man, who declared nelaimed. A passport made out to a Mrs. husband forced her to swallow poison. hn Was found among the woman's BenaT® possessions, bot the photos “Oh, these men. Look out for raph attached wae that of a heavy-| tem," she warned the nurses, just t dark hiuired woman while the vic-| hems” She W dm wae tall and slender with dyed| “Ai; the hotel addresses which the woman gave proved wrong, the police a hair, Apparently about thirty years old, | announced, but independent investiga- tion established that some of the aghionably dressed, the American 0 smartest of Paris hotels held trunks World ‘Summer Resort’ 3,311 an was found wandering about streets of Paris Wednesday}and baggage belonging to ‘Mrs. Kohn,” left in leu of paymentsy One Advts. Last Week. Physicians at the hospital to 21 held papers in its safe. More than any otherNew York newspaper. hich she was rushed declared she d taken enough poison ito kill ten] At the last moment before her| For the Best Place to Spend death, the woman declared her hus- the Holiday Read ons. She died Sunday During the three days that she} band was a wealthy stock-broker in the United States, Worla Summer Resort Ads, and laughed with nurses and doctors, admitting she had intended to com- The World’s “Summer Resort” ad- vertisements mention many places where »pecial arrangements have been made to accommodate guests for the Fourth of July those who expect to spend the holiday out of town can consult these ads. advantageously. Remember that no other New York newspaper prints as many “Summer Resort” ads as The World, aden the mystery voman joked ’ ARE FILLED WITH NAMES "TE hat COUPLE MURDERED |U. S. Oil Plant and 40 Employees Seized by Mexican Rebel Band And losis tor 15,000 Peso Ransom Hours Given for Payment and State Department Orders Instant Action to Free Tampico Prisoners. WASHINGTON, June 27.—Forty employees of the Cortez Oil Company near Tampico and destructible property valued at $250,000 are being held by a rebel General until ransom of 15,000 pesos is paid, according to a message to-day to the State Department from the American Consul_at Tampico, The despatch was dated yesterday@r and said the ‘rebel General Goro- zabe'’ had seized the company's prop- erty and was holding it with 240 well armed men, Prompt instructions were sent by the State Department to the embassy in Mexico City and to the Consul at Tampico to urge the Mexi- can authorities to take immediate ac- tion for the protection of American lives and property. The Consul reported that Gorozabe had demanded payment of the 15,000 pesos within forty-eight hours from yesterday morning. The messag2 also said there were no Mexican Federal troops in the vicinity, The Richmond Levering Company owns oil lands in the San Miguel dis- trict near Tampico, these lands being operated by the Mexican Oil Cqrpora- tion, a subsidiary concern. It is not known here how many of the employees held are Americans. It is supposed some of them are ROBBERS ATTEMPT |FULLER & C0. FAL, HOLD UP OF TRAN | BROKERS VACATING NEAR HOHOKUS, N. ee Fifteen Shots Fired in Gun Fight With Detective on Roof. Eight robbers attempted to hold up @ fast freight train of the Erie Rail- road near Waldwick, north of Hoho> kus, N. J., early to-day. In a pistol fight In which fifteen shots were fired Edward Hamilton, an Erie de- tective, was wounded as he ran along the top of the train to give battle to two of the robbers who crouched there. According to an official of the Erie Rallroad detective force, the gang probably were in search of a ship- ment of 100 cases of liquor, valued at $25,000. The robbers fled after Detective Hamilton fell. Members of the train crew who went to Hamilton's aid searched the vicinity but the gang es- caped, The train was on a grade in a cut over which there ts a bridge, when two of the robbers, who are believed to have ridden the bunipers on the train from Jersey City, cut an air hose between two cars midway in the train. This automatically threw the air brakes and the train stopped sud- denly. Detective Hamilton, who carried an automatic pistol, was in the caboose Hg went to the top of the train and proceeded along the tops of the cars As he reached the centre of the train two men who had been lying flat on top of the cars arose and began firing at him. Hamilton saw five othe: men standing in the cut rush to on» of the cars. He crawled to the car edge and saw them trying to pry open the door of one of the cars, The elghth man suddenly began firing at the detective from a bridge over the railroad cut. Hamilton en- deavored to move from his position and was shot in the left leg. He fell to the car top, but did not roll off The two robbers who were on the top of the car then went to the ground. Members of the train crew came out and the gang fled. Hamilton was assisted to the ground and the engine and tender were uncoupled, He was put in the cab and the engine was raced to Suffern, N. Y., about ten miles away. An ambulance was wait- ing there and took Hamilton to the Good Samaritan Hospital, where the bullet was removed. Hamilton 1s thirty-seven years old and lives at No. 2015 Summit Avenue, Jersey City. His condition was reported at the hospital this afternoon to be serious A call was sent to Hohokus and Ridgewood for police, who searched the wooded section in the vicinity, but could not find any trace of the robbers or of an automobile im which it is believed they, escaped, OFFICE OVERNIGHT pone LiL Staff Arrives for Work Only to Find Jobs and All But Furniture Gone. When the staff of clerks, stenogra- phers, telegraph operators and office boys arrived at the brokerage offjces ot E. M. Fuller & Co., at No. 50 Broad Street, this morning to start their customary day's work, they found that everything save the furniture had been removed from the suite of thir- teen rooms and that there was not a member of the firm there to tell them what it meant, At the opening of the Consolidated Exchange the failure of the Fuller firm was announced from the rostrum. firm was announced from the rostrum for failure to meet commitments and for “reckless and unbusinesslike methods.” It followed an involuntary petition in bankruptcy filed against the firm yesterday, In the petition the liabill- ties were stated to be $500,000 with assets of $250,000, It followed an involuntary petition in hankruptey fled against the Arm yes terday. In the petition the liabilities were stated to be $500,000, with assets of $250,000. The books and papers of the Fuller firm were removed from ite office be- tween 6 and 7 o'clock last night under the supervision of James Louls Moore, of the law firm of Hays, St. John & Moore, of No. 43 Ex- change Place, according to a state- ment made to-day by Mr. Moore. "The firny failed," Mr. Moore said, (Continued on ‘Twenty-first Page.) fe “LL SAY I DO,” BRIDE’S REPLY TO WEDDING QUESTION Girl Revises Formula Marriage by Brooklyn Judge. Miss May Kauffman of Fallsburg, N. Y., was married to Harry Wort of No, 987 Myrtle Avenue, Brooklyn, by County Judge J. Gratton Mac- Mahon in Brooklyn to-day, The Judge only agreed to perform the ceremony ndition that the couple be ed later by a rabbi » you love this man?" asked the bride “I'l say I do,” she replied She then threw her arms about the neck of the Judge and placed a kiss “pon kis Lips, on ¢ tle Judge COLLINS ARRESTS |STRA IRISH REBEL CHIEF TO RESTORE ORDER RES: Lieut. Gen. O'Connor Kid- napped in Reprisal for Ar- rest of Michael Henderson. IS HELD AS HOSTAGE Henderson Sent to Mountjoy Prison in Move to Clean Up Dublin, DUBLIN, June 27.—Free State forces struck at the insurrection in the heart of Dublin to-day. Michael Collins, head of the Pro- visional Government, ordered hie troops to arrest Commandant Michael Henderson, one of the leaders of the band of rebels which recently seized and held the Four Courts Buildings and hotel, The arrest was effected, This move by Collins was consid. ered éxtremely significant. It con- stituted a direst. challenge to Rory O'Connor, rebel genetal, who has been defying both the Free State and Great Britain, demanding that British troops get out of Dublin, The arrest. of Henderson, moreover, showed the Free State Government Intends to loge no time In complying with Churehill’s ultimatum, delivered in the House of Commons yesterday. to restore order, Henderson was sent to Mountjoy Prison, A statement issued at the Fou Courts expressed surprise at Hender- son's arrest. It said he was raiding firm, under orders, to enforce the boycott against Belfast goods when Bree State forces arrived in two ar mored cars. N DUBLIN, June 27 (Associated Press).—Counter action has been taken by the Four Courts irregulars Last evening they kidnapped Lieut. Gen. O'Connor, Assistant Chief of Staff of the regulars at Beggar's Bush, and are holding him prisoner. The executive officers of the trreg- ulars at the Four Courts telephoned the Beggar's Bush officials that Lieut Gen, O'Connor was belng held as a hostage for the release of Command- ant Henderson and of the trregulars recently arrested at Drogheda. The official reports from the Four Courts regarding the Henderson ar- rest says (hat the commandant yes- terday was raiding premises in con- nection with the Belfast boycott when @ strong force of army men from lag gar's Bush appeared on the scene. The commander of this force declared, however, that he did not purpose making any arrests, upon which Com- mandant Henderson went to the Four Courts to report. On returning to the premises, tho statement adds, the commandant wis arrested and placed in jail. LONDON, June 27 (Associated Press).—Prime Minister Lioyd George and Colonial Secretary Churchill have apparently turned the edge of the opposition’s thrust, based on the Irish policy. A virtual vote of confidence was given by the House of Commons last night when It defeated, 342 to 75, a motion proposed by the “die-hards"’ for a reduction in the salury of the Chief Secretary for Ireland in dis- approval of the Government's policy and the failure properly to protect Field Marshal Wilson, The Secretary for the Colonies made {t clear in his statement that South- ern Ireland would not be allowed to coerce Ulster and that the Provisional Government in Dublin now must as- sert complete authority, the alterna- tive being that the Imperial Govern- ment would resume compiete freedom of action. The Prime Minister, again outlining the policy toward Ireland, sald the elections had shown that the Pro- visional Goverhment had the Irish people behind it and that !t now must prove whether it was fit to covern hl Fd GIANTS LEAD IN FIRST GAME Phil .. Giants .... Pulltzer (World) Building, 53-69 Park Row, N. ¥, Oity. Telephone Beekman 4000. Check room for baggage and parcels open day and night. Money orders and travellers’ checks for sale—A4ri. AS BRONX BANK MESSENGER BATTLES WITH THUG BAND NEGRO WHO SHOT POLICEMAN KILLED IN POLICE STATION Fight Occurs in Precinct Where Three Officers Were Slain. Herbert Dent, twenty-one, No. £29 Lenox Avenue. a Negro. died at six s'olock this morning in Harlem Hos- pital after u Aght, the polloe aay, with several detectivées_in the West 136th, street station, On April 7 Patrolman McHugh of that station tried to arrest Dent on « charge of robbery. MeHugh was shot in the head and ts atif! in the hospital. Dent was at large until 5 o'clock thia morning, when Deteotives Redding, McGrath and Gorman arrested him at 185th Street and Lenox Avenue. Redding tells the following story of what happened afterward: “We took him to the station and he was about to be fingerprinted when he suddenly made a grab at me and got my gun. I struck him with my fist before he could shoot, At the same time I called for help. Me- Geath and Gorman and rome others came to my assistance, but Dent seemed to have the strength of an insane man, “He fought us all and it was nec- essary to handle him roughly before we could get him under control. Then we took him to the hospital."” A report from the hospital said that the Negro had died soon after reaching there. Dent was implicated tn the hold- up of Joseph Soselli, No. 84 Ver- milyea Avenue, the Bronx, at 185th Street and Lenox Avenue on April 7. His companion, Hy Sanford, 22, No. 16 West 1334 Street, was captured and sent to Sing Sing for 14 years by Judge Crain, Redding, who ls a negro policeman, light and frall in physique, had finger- printed Dent and had asked him to sign his pedigree. Redding was bending over the pedigree at the desk srheh Dent snatched ita holster. Redding turned and clinched with his powerful assailant and they went to the fidbr, Redding wrenching hia knee. Policemen McGrath and Gorman re- sponded to his call for help and Mc- Grath badly wrenched his wrist when he struck the Negro with his fist. Then he and Gorman used thvir blackjacks to subdue Dent who fell to the floor under theif blows. Tt was at this same station that Luther Boddy, a Negro, shot and killed Detectives Miller and Buek- ley on Jan. 5, while the Negro was béing fingerprinted. He grabbed a gun from the coat of @ policeman in the back room and before he wa: subdued had shot the two detectives. Policeman Metz was another victim of a Negro's bullet in the same station, and after his death Commissioner En- right ordered his men to get holsters wich safety clutches. Baia TB HEDLEY AND MEN CONFER ON WAGES Frank Hedley, President of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company, issued the following statement to-day: “The agreement with employees of the Interborough Rapid Transit Com- pany’s subway and elevated lines ex- pire at the end of this month, It is customary to discuss the matter of wages and working conditions before the expiration of these agreements, As a matter of fact, these discussions have started and a very satisfactory harmonius and co-operative feeling prevails, Shot’ Fired in Pistol Fight Hits Costino as He Drives By—Robbers Flee With $3,500 Payroll. Holdup Victim Puts Up Fighi When Seized and Forced i.) Drop Money Bag—His Companion Felled. Four well dressed young men, purently “of thetr held up on Willow Avenue, 1asth Street, two bank messengers the Bpbnx National Bank shortly a/ ter 10 o'clogk this moyAing, knocks one of the unconscious and, after pistol duel with the other, got a he, containing $3,500 and escaped in u dark bluy automobile operated by t) not out teer fifth membér of the gang. Alfrer! Costino, a driver, was accidental!) shot and died later in Lincoln Hos pital The messengers were — Jam McClary, thirty-nine, No. 631 E: 160th Street, and Adam Bredy, sixt No. 1172 Forest Avenue. They lef the bank with the weekly payroll the International Handkerchief Cor pany, 137th Street and Willow Av? nue, They took a 149th Street cro: town car to Southern Boulevard. from there rode to 138th and wuikés down to Willow Avenue. The waiting / them on Willow Avenue, just beloy 188th Street, with its motor purring McClary walked ebout 10 feet ahea: of Bredy, carrying the bag, this being a strategem ari the event of an the bag, dently familiar with the arrangemen Bredy, who was ready to act in capy of McClary being attacked, was hivh self first held up. One of the gang stepped im trozi of him and pointed a revolver at hit while another grabbed him from be hind and told him that he would | killed if he opened his mouth. Bred who had a police whistle in his huni’ attempted to raise it to his mouth wo! which the man in front fired, by missed. Bredy continued to strugy) and was felled with a blow of the re volver on the left side of his nose. The sound of the shot caused M Clary to turn and as he did, he wis seized from in front and behind, tl! (Continued on Twenty-first Page automobile was to attempt But the thugs were evi ASKS EXAMINATION OF ALL IN STATE TO STOP DISEASE Health Officer Would Make ‘Test an Annual Affair. SARATOGA SPRINGS, June Annual physical examination of every person in the St.te was urged here to-day by Dr. Her man M. Riggs, State Commis- sioner of Health, as a means to prevent disease. The Commia-: sioner made the suggestion in opening the joint conference of sanitary officers. and public health officers. Dr. Biggs sald that tach a practice has been inaugurated in the State Department of Health, and that a number of employees were found to be defected and ill He scored the ‘‘material con siderations which have sprung up “somewhat in medicine as in other professions and business op erations,"’ and urged that physi clans return to the old standards of working for the public goed in- stead of petsonal ends. sana? opie * Bride and Grou Found Slain; Killed in im While Asleep . Y BULLET KILLS DRIVER 7