The evening world. Newspaper, June 27, 1922, Page 4

SA NCEE oR RETAIL I STORER A TE CRRA FREE OE UES | aoietenienneronteesimememenonestemaiaonisie sate Ane (A WIFE AND $700 TVSAPPEAR WITH | APOLOGIZED FOR ‘« MASKED ROBBER) WAKING VICTIMS he complice of Thug Who At- ‘wife was the accomplice of a man who early yesterday awakened him with a blow on the head with a Blackjack, stole his money and left the house at the same time his wife fia. © A terrife blow awoke me,” Mr. “Wider told the Sheriff at Mineola. Aa man in an army uniform, with & Dandkerchief over his face, stuok » fevolver in my face and told me not to move or be would knock my brains out. “He reached under my pillow and Book the $700 1 had there amd my ‘waioh and chain. my trousers pockets and took $2 and some change and a key. fi then entered, fully dressed, from the @djoining room. They both went into the kitchen. 1 heard them whispering and heard him say, ‘He's got a damn hard head.’ “In a few minutes they returned. My wife tore my bed sheet into strips and tied my hands when the man or- dered her to do so and threw another sheet over me. room to get her clothes, which I be- { leve were already packed, and they went out of the house, he through|I thought sou would be asleep, Don't the back door and she through the , front. say something about a taxi,’ Wider said his wife must have given i the man the key by which he entered. The living rooms and frult store are on Grand Avenue, near the Merrick Road. 'The Nassau police are searching for | robbery to the police, but said that | the couple. owing to the darkness he could not i ee distinguish the features of the in- ‘Mana to be a member of the Federal] that Mr. Saltus previously had pur Wrade Commission has been confirmed. | chased cyanide for cleaning old silver a sromemrareerss “sues ews sband Says Spouse Was Ac-] Took Mrs. Lee’s Jewels and Arthur Wider, fruit dealer, of Bald- ‘win, I. 1, declares to-day that his] street, to-day described a visit paid to ‘ i ‘HEARST ABANDONS Pian to Visit California 1 ‘William R. Hearst has abandoned his{ to the bay window and onto the ledge Jpien to return to Europe to resume his|of the window of the Lee bedroom. interrupted tour. manager of his pre-convention cam- Spaign for the Democratic nomination Stor Governor, in making this announce- ‘ment yesterday added that there was ho political reason to keep Mr. Hearst Thome just now, | “It’s practically all over, he is as mood Conn | Mr. Hearst is going to California and lis expected t Hour weeks, fe said Mr. Hearst had important busi- ss intere: the Pacific it United Stat: having the fig it there to win a renomination to the (United States Senate, 2 VAN FLEET IS CONFIRMED. ’ WASHINGTON June 27.—The nom- Anation of Vernon W. Van Fleet of In- REPORT OF FIGHT AS THEY MOTORED Auto Equipped With Ap- paratus So Passengers Can Listen In. John H, Hayden, Vice Presi- dent of the Independent Wireless Company, No. 35 Water Street, took a party of friends for a motor ride and a radio treat last evening. ‘The automobile looked like any other, but wires were strung through its top and there were IS HELD UP BY ROBBER Chairmen of Com: Walter A. Green, sixty-one, accident ally used lodine on his eyes instead of eye wash early to-day in his home in| ** Jamaica, He put on a few clothes and was hurrying toward the doctor's a negro stopped him op South str near Morris Avenue, and hit him on the head, inflicting a scalp wound Green fought. The police say 1] this fall. a revolver and fired one shot duri a struggle. Then, they say, the , took the revolver away from him ran away with it. Green and his wit declare he had only an imitation vol which Was @ perfume sprayer. Green's head and eyes were treated In a hospital _—_— —_s $50 From Husband’s Pocket and Vanished. and Republican Conventions. tacked Him in Bed. batteries under the seat, and pres- ently the passengers, even when the car was in motion, heard voices from any sending station on whose wave-length the opera- tor tuned In. ‘The party went all around Man- hattan and received a round-by- [Company to Issue $1,600,000 mortgage round radio report on the Leon- |honds to make extensions to its prop- ard-Britton fight. erty. and advised Mr. Lee to say nothing |e about it, “Mrs, Lee and I returned from the theatre late on Thuraday night,’’ said Mr. Lee, “and I think it likely that the burglar followed us. At about 8 o'clock Friday morning Mrs. Lee was awakened by a sound which she first attributed to the wind, but presently she saw a figure on the window sill. She switched on the electric light and the burglar told her to turn it off or he would shoot.” Mr. Lee had been aroused by the noise and he asked the man what he wanted. “I want money and jewelry and I must have them,’| the burglar said. Mrs, Lee then offered him the rings she was wearing, one of them her en- gagement ring. He took: them and then demanded money. Mr. Lee said there was no money in the house ex- copt $50 in his trousers pocket. The burglar took the roll of bills and then backed toward the open window. He threw his legs over the window ledge and sald: “Tam sorry to have disutrbed you. MORRIS COUNTY TRACTION COM- PANY BONDS, The New Jersey State Public Utility Commission has approved the applica-| 1; James Parish Lee, No. 60 East 65th him on Friday morning by an armed and acrobatic burglar who was a model of courtesy and who got away with two diamond rings and $50 cash. The police had suppressed the news ‘abill of Watertown; Rensselaer. We Connection With Any Omer Establishment in the World W ORTH THIRTY FOURTH STREET At Greatly Reduced Prices! New Summer Frocks For Women and Misses In Figured Novelty Weaves Q.50 ' Former Price *15.00 He then searched My wife She then went to her make any nolse or I'll shoot.” Before they left I heard him He stepped from the ledge to the top of the bay window, from which he slid and vanished. But as he dropped Mr. and Mrs. Lee heard him say to some one: “It's all right; I'm coming down,"" Mr. Lee immediately reported the truder and would not be able to iden- tify him, The detectives think the man was an expert porch climber and second inked] story worker, as {t 1s quite an acro- batic feat to get from the ground up EUROPEAN TOUR With Johnson Campaign. The police also promised Mr. Lee that jn the future there would be a double guard of police on duty in 65th Street, between Madison and Park Avenues. Mr. Lee is a Vice President and di- rector of the Hecker Cereal Company and @ director of other corporations. ity alice: AMERICAN IN LONDON DIED OF ‘MISADVENTURE?’ LONDON, June ‘William J, Conners, jominated right now,” said Mr. remain there for three or cording to Mr. Conners.| 3 The Coroner's inquest to-day on the body of J, San- equiring his attention on| ford Saltus, an American who died Sat- urday at the Hotel Metropole, resulted ator Hiram Johnson | in the verdict that death was due to of his political career | misadventure. After Mr. Saltus's two glasses found in strongly of cyantd ginger. The Coron: was nothing to show whether the de- ceased had taken the mixture inten- tionally or by accident. 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All sizes for Women. and Misses. Raven sin S1LK CosTuME Sips White, black, navy or flesh . . . 12.75 FEMININE LINGERIE SHOP— First Floor dune 2s, _*HE EVENiANG WOnbn, dvad, R IVED RA BLINDED WITH IODINE HYLAN, WALLIN TO LEAD FET! ? ,] the Transfiguration, and witt tast untt!| speech. James PORCH CLIMBER REPORT it? AND SEEKING DOCTOR, FIGHT FOR HOME RULE EO COURTHOUSE SITE:ITS, eo aeeeerae | le the i] Might of the New York State Confer-|for a new school in Mott Street, is un- once of Mayors for adoption of a “Home Rule’ plank by the political conventions 7 It was announced here to- that Mayor Wilson of Binghamton, Ident of the Mayors’ body, had ap- d them as chairmen of the two ymittees to wait on the Democratic Accompanying Mayor Hylan to the Democratic Convention will be Cornelius ¥, Burns, Troy; Mayor Walrath, Syra-| © Mayor Lynch, Ogdensburg, these Mayors will appear before tion of the Morris County Traction|the Republican Convention; Schwab of rence of Middletown, and Meurs of ‘The material has the lustrous appearance of | We Connection With Any Otner Establishment in the Wertd Merry-go-rounds, swings and shoot- res by Lily, Wiegandt and Mi Church of Transfiguration Opens Pather Hutchison | Little Coney for a Week, ing galleries swarmed with shouting children. 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