The evening world. Newspaper, July 13, 1922, Page 3

2 THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1922 NN, MASS, “ABANDONED BABY "IN CONEY MARSH Police Check Up and A’ “Ruth Silver” Is Mother of Infant. ert HER VOICE ON PHONE. Has Not Kept Her Promise to Appear, Though Help Is Awaiting Her, Capt. George Busby of the Coney Island Station, after a talk over the telephone Chief of Police of Lynn, the baby found in the back of Coney Island early Sunday is the child of a Miss Silver of Lynn, and that she abandoned it. He sald the informa- tion he got from the Lynn police checked up with what the weeping woman who described herself “Ruth Silver’ told him over the tele- phone last night. with the Mass., to-day, said marsh as Bhe sald she left Lynn with the baby last Friday. ‘This was con firmed by the police of Lynn. Ac- wording to the information from Lynn, she told her friends she was coming here to enter a Jewish hos pital or a Jewish home. Officials of the Federation of Jew fsh Philanthropies, No. 114 Fifth Avenue, notified Capt. Busby to-day that they stand ready to take care of the girl and her baby. They said they could easily find a place among their ninety-one institutions where the pair would be well provided for A message from the Lynn_ police states that the mother of the baby is twenty-four years old, 5 feet tall and weighs 110 pounds. When she left Lynn she wore a black silk dress, black satin slippers, black silk stock ings, black silk hat with an algrette and a sport coat of brown and gray She is of fair complexion and has black hair and blue eyes. In her talk with Capt. Busby, she promised to report at the «8 n house to-day, but has not redeemed her promise so far. She appeared to be intensely anxidus to her baby “I come from Lynn, Ma. the mother told Capt. Busby. ‘My baby came and I was not married. I begged and begged her father to marry me, Dut he put it off. I got desperate last week and I came to New York Friday. I went to the child’s father and pleaded with him to give our Kittle girl a name and make me a de- woman, but he wouldn't do it. hen [think IT went crazy. I could not live as I had been living I took the baby down to Cone Is walked along the back road till I got back to the path into the marsh. I put her down there and ran away, I started back once or twice, but I didn't go on.” Ruth Silver," the voice of the other replied when Capt. Busby Ked the baby’s name, and the mother said the child was sixteen months old. re JOSEPH SANTLEY FINED FOR BRIDGE SPEEDING Bella Hats, His Stage Part Has Case Posty Joseph Santley, the actor before Magistrate Long Island City Court to-d. ned. appeared the Connolly in in re- him sponse to a simmons charging and Miss Bella Haig, with him on the stage with reckless driving on the Queensborough Bridge early Wednesday. Policeman Heitman said that Mr Santley and Miss Haig, both of whom live at Great Neck, passed him going toward Long Is'and at twain the morning, each with car ‘full of friends, who reemed to © with the defendants that the bridge was a pub- Ne motor rac irse, Mr. Santley pl 1 guilty to ex- ceeding the speed limit and paid a fine He explained that Miss Haig ‘was not present, because at Wednes who danc May night’s performance she had stumbled in her dance, fallen over the footlights, breaking her leg, straining her back and severely juring the trap drummer. Her was postponed. in- 50,000 TRUCKS _ ARE AVAILABLE TO CARRY MAILS Postmaster General Notifies President of Strike Emer- geney Plans. WASHINGTON, July 13 (Ass elated Press) Postmaster Gen 1] Work to-day prepa President Harding, utive that a survey notifying pre all departments of the red by Government showed that a ougniy orgunized fleet of motor vehicles could be mobilized within nty-four hours should the shopmen's strike fu interfere with the movement of United States mail The Post Office Department controls about 10,000 motor trucks and Postmaster General Work was advised to-day that there were more than 40,000 motor ve- thor 50.000 tw railway ther hic owned 1 controlled the various States, while. thou sands of others owned by the War Department and used by the National Guard in different States were available. CIR Latest Photos of Mrs. George J. Gould, Former Alice Sinclair; Her Children and Beautiful Home at Manursing Island, Rye HERBERT ANEW S SHOT SERVIcEy ~ MRS. LAMONT TELLS OF $900 RING THEFT Testifies at Trial of Nurse Suing Hewitt Widow for $250,000. Mrs. Mary Lamont, wife of David Lamont, the banker, testified to-day In the Court of General Sesstons in the trial of Elizabeth Kelly, a nurse, accused of stealing a $900 diamond ing while in Mrs. Lamont's employ at No. 0 pst S2d et, in De~ rember, 1918. Miss Kelly the plain- iff in a sult filed in Paris for $250,- 000 damages against the widow of the late Peter Cooper Hewitt, who ac- cused her of stealing jewelry whi nursing Mr Mrs, Hewitt in his ines, Lamont said John was ill and Miss Kelly was en- gaged She young son as a nurse was in the Lamont ath home two days. TI oceupants the and Mrs. Lamont © only of house were the sick und Mrs. Lamont mi: when More vont ke sed the Miss ring left questioned, the Mrs. been later had than a year arned the recovered by ‘Tiffany The ring was produced in court Mrs. Lamont said she had worn it seventeen years, Initials in the ring vad been erased. . GEORGE. GOULD'S BRIDE AN AMERICAN HE FST MET (Continued From First Page.) the Berengarla, but her name was not on the p While she is described by some as English, known when she first came ssenger list, to New York in 1913 as Mrs. Vere Sinclair, a man who is well ac- quainted with both her and Mr. Gould, but would not permit the use of his name, says she is American ald he: T have been informed they were married but I can not give any details. His wife is an American, She was born in Ohio, but her parents came to this country from England, She is charming." He said knew nothing of her stage career It was learne however, that she came here in the winter of 1913, tak- ing a part in “The Girl on the Film," a George Fdwardes London Galety production which was put on comedian, un old friend of George Ten Milligrams of Radium Recovered From Hospital Ash Heap by Use of Electroscope Lost Duri ng Operation at Methodist Episcopal Hos- pital, Brooklyn, Experts Sift Tons of Ashes Before It Was All Regained. Recovery of radium, $1,000, which was lost at the Methodist Epis- Hospital Brooklyn, this fter all-night search, ha ton of ashes in the In- the hospital was sifted, possible by the use of a Jelicate instrument known as an elec- troscope, which indicates the of vadioactive rays Following worth copal in morning, an cinerator at was made presen an operation at the hos pital last evening it was found that ten milligrams of the hospital's stock f 150 mille wa asin Dr James E. Holmes Superintendent, immediately commiunicated with tne United States Radium Corporation at East Orange N J., from whem the supply of radium had been pu chased, and Dr. E. D, Leaman, chief an we chemist, and to the hospital with conduet The op ent sent in electroscope to a search m was first of the ating 1 amined, but no trac and his assistant, M the ex- en milll- Mayes, went to boiler m n the hands of d the incinera of tor it showed radlo- at the 4ith Street Theatre. Her stage name was Vere Sinclair. She acted as understudy for Miss Emmy Weh- len, star. It was George Grossmith, London active rays, becoming more and more marked as it newred the pile of ashes at the bott Practically certain! that the missing ten milligrams wer somewhere in. the ot ashes, Dr Leman and nu care ful sit 1 hes, empty them first tu snd then sift uch bucket When this had been ¢ 1 all of ths missing radium bad been recovered, Gould, who introduced the t early winter of 1914, Th the Film” fatled to prove al suceess RE EIGHT YEARS AO wo in the “Girl on distinetive but many who went it commented upon Mr, Gould's requent presence in the theatre. When the company returned ‘to England, it was without Miss Sin- clair, She and Mr, Gould were now well known figures, appearing often on Fifth Avenue together. Miss Sinclair, as she was then known, was of striking appearance, and was seen on brisk 5 o'clock walks the It the dish with Mr. Gould on the Avenue A portrait of Mrs, Goula was ex- hibited last spring by Hnlmi at Reinhardt Galleries, Fifth Avenu a handsome woman in thirties, with striking red and a very slim figure huir For the last few years Mrs. Sinclair ha West 74th Street. It is a five-story stone residence, of house of Charles M, only a door from Riverside the house it was sald by the that Mrs, Sinclair some two months ago. However, it is known Gould was a frequent. cal often dashing up in a small oceupied a town house, No. h wab, Dr t had gone at that ler th coupe and At uker ad Mr. hers, ar with a French chauffeur and staying for many hours in the mid day. Mrs, to tradespe@le, also had Rolls-Royce with the initials f lettered on it Two children, one a boy and other « girl, about six an s years old, respectively, are quently going and coming Sinclair residence, on Riverside Drive or on We Avenue with a French nurse. 7 1s xaid to be one younger. All evidence of the chit lacking to-day. The caret answered the door aid she there only a “short time," the V. Sinclair, as she was known fre- the taking their walks End who been had been engaged by a servant Sinclair who was out for the day In 1915 Mrs. Sinclair went to live In an old-fashioned house on the Boston Post Road, near (Quaker Ridge, whieh xtanda fur back froin the highway, its lawn surrounded by tall, heavy hedge. She had never f ured in any publicity since nan disappeared from the east of “The Girl on the Film’ in 1914 Mrs, Sinclair moved fy Ridge six or seven beautiful residence on + Manursing Island. Ry adjoins that of W. H I at Browning, King ¢ lived there quit much talk at the Ay at the Manursing Isl Mrs, Sinclair dey riding, driving, skating eid Pervision of the children, wav lave now become part of her home circle, Mr. Gould went up there frequently, especially in the summer for hte ing parties, and his appearance was commented upon last summer espe- cially. Mr. Gould spent extended pe- riods at Rye, playing much tennis at the club courts. Tradespeople sald they often heard Mrs, Sinclair si@ak of her mother and sister, who oceupled 1 cottage at Rye. Once when Mr. Gould arrived it was noticed he wore a nd of crape on his hat and inquiry among the servants was met with the ex- nation that the first Mrs. Gould had died The Manursing Island estate Is said to be worth $250,009. Entrknce to the place was guarded to-day by two special policemen and a watchman, who said they had been placed there » members of the houshold had ed with inquiries about the Gould wedding Until recently Mrs. Sinclair held under her own name a farm of 270 acres at Doanshe about six miles north of Brewster, and situated on the to the Rerkshires. cords show that the deeds were re~ und that the main State highs R corded on Aug. 24, 1918, value of the property at that time was $18,000. George McCall, who was foreman of the estate for several years after Mrs, Sinclair acquired it, said she used to go there about half a dozen times a year witn her chil- dren, and that frequently she was ac companied by George J. Gould, They would remain for the day and then return to Manursing Island Those few who know Mrs. Stn- clair, now Mrs, Gould, with any de- gree of intimacy, credit her with very unusual abilities. They say she has studied and mastered sports, riding fishing, shooting, tennis and their literature and likewise familiarized herself with finance and busi 1 corporation management By remarrying, Mr Gould gives up property left to him by his late wife, which is valued at nearly $3,000,000. ‘This property which Mr, Gould re- linquishes is the late Mrs. Gould's home, 67th Street and Fifth Avenue, ind the property at No. 177 Hast 64th Street, which will now be dl- vided among the seven Gould child- ren The name of Mr. Gould was brought Into a anit in the Supreme Court In Brooklyn in February, 19165. John Macon, a Negro porter in the offices of the Missourt Pacific Rattroad, moved for a reduction of alimony. Tn her affidavit opposing this the wife Phat Just prior to December, 1918 the defendant, depe husband, told deponent he was working for Mr. uld privately in certain premises on Riverside Drive, for one St. Clan, another friend of Mr, Gould, and that deponent's hushand told her on se eral o sions that he had to do er- rands fof said St. Clair at the request of Mr, Gould. “That sired husband puch se nent’s whenever suid St. Clair de- rendered deponent's invariably perform That this Information services would toes. was received by deponent from the defendant himself. “That it was for such services ren dered by deponent's -husband in the mploy of Mr. Gould that he received extra remuneration, and that such was not Infrequent and that depon- ent'’s husband told her that he re- ceived extra ary for the servic.4 rendered to the friends of Mr. Gould whom he was entertaining. “That such serv ered in the premises on Riverside Drive and else where for Mr. Gould's friends wi not for the Missourl! Pacific Ratlroad Company." Rufus T. Perry, lawyer for Mrs Macon, sald last ni the tele phone that he s whether the name in the al tf had been spel _ BOHN rigerator Sale Smashing Reductions ! 25% to 50% For a Short Time No such values Dixcou! jar List Only! from Reg st Refrigerators ever b fered for years! All Reduced Headq : 46th St., 5.00 Up ast Ave MART COLLECTOR {WOMAN AND GIRL SAID 10 MISUSE Collected From Pusheart Ped- dlers Charge Made Against Silver by Union Member. A complaint that about half a mil lion dollars, collected from rt pus peddlers for permits allowing t m to trade at the city’s open-air markets, had been used illegally for purposes by Charles Silver, his own the col lector and Acting Supervisor of Pub le Market: Supreme was made Justice Crops by Morris Singer Street, that to-day to Court in of No. borough, a Pusheart Brooklyn, 134 member Union. The complaint came up in a peti tion by Singer, through hjs attorney, Charles H. Levy, for a temporary in- Junction to restrain Edward J. O'Mal ley, Commissioner of Markets, from disposing of the fees collected from peddlers for any other than sinking fund purposes. Commissioner O'Malley opened the aforesaid markets as places wherein peddlers uld buy their produce more cheaply and sell at lower figures in order to decrease the cost of living. Each peddier, according to Singer, 1s taxed $1 per week for the buying privilege, Singer declared in hix complaint that this money has not gone to the city. *What does the city do, allow some one to steal its money?" Justice Cropsey asked “The collections amount to half a million dollars a year, and not a cent goes to the city," Mr. Levy replied. Phat makes w nice plum for some- body,'’ Justice Cropsey narked. Assistant Corporation Counsel Wilson, who appeared for Commis r O'Malley, explained to the court that the law permits the Com missioner to retain a certain amount of the permit money for the regula- tion and upkeep of the open-alr mar- kets. “If any is left it goes to the sinking fund. he added. “L suppose there isn’t any left,"’ was Justice Cropsey’s comment ‘Then he anviounced a reservation of decision. a RICHMOND OFFICIAL TRIED FOR NEGLECT Moore of the Peddlers’ Street Cleaning Commis- sioner Minnihan Accused of Incompeten John E, Minnthan, Street Cleaning Commissioner of Richmond, was placed on trial before Borough Prest- dent Cahill to-day on charges of neglect, incompetence and absence without leave Robert E. Bailey, Acting Commis- sioner of Public Works, was the com- plainant and the first witness. He said he had called Minnthan’s office ‘four or five tm a week" without finding him in. The man actually on the job, he sald, ax usually Charles Rice. First in Public Seryuty SHOT; POLICEMEN SSOQQU0IN FEES) BEATENIN FHT Bronx Free for All Starts When Brick Is Dropped on All Vamp.” The alleged att of a pretty manicurist to “vamp” a man of sixty led to an exciting train of events from which the Bronx did not ree cover unt early to-day. The thriller included th shooting of a woman and a girl; an attack that disabled two policemen; the singing of bricks and bul a tle-un of traffic ta 1agth Str the ing of @ crowd of 5,000; heroit work by sevs enty polico reserves, and finally seve eral arresta. It started when Miss Daisy Le Roy, 148th Street and telephoned the Mor- se Station she was afrald a manicurist, Willis Avenue, risania Pol! at to go home even before dark because her life had been threatened by @ “certain family.” From later developments it ape peared that it was the family of An- nuncio Santini she feared / Anyway, Policeman John Taggart was sent to escort Miss Le Roy home, and all went well until they reached the Santini ‘warehouse, at 149th Street and Brook Avenue. Mrs, Adelo Santini, sixty, and her five sons, of No. 452 East 149th Street, dashed down the van driveway of the warehouse. Mrs. Santini is said.to be ambidextrous and had a brick in each hand, One was used as ammunition, and then she went into a clinch with Miss Le Roy, while her sons devoted themselves to the cop. There was so much noise he de« cided revolver shots would be more likely to bring aid, and raised bis arm to fire. Just then Policeman Uht arrived, only to be sent sprawling beside his comrade, Taggart’s arm was dragged down as he tried to fire into the’ air, and the bullet struck Mra, Santini in the left hip, a second shot striking fourteen-year-old Jose- phine Barbetta of No. 542 Brook Ave- nue, who were passing, in the right hip. By the time the police reserves ar- rived there was a crowd of several thousand watching the fray, The re~ serves ploughed their way through and rescued the two policemen, Mrs, Santini, the Barbetta girl and the two beaten patrolmen were taken to Lincoln Hospital, where Mra. San- tint {s a prisoner on an assault charge. Santini and the sons, Reynolds, twenty-six, Walter, twenty-four. and Victor, twenty-three, were arrested, charged with assault. An alarm was sent for the other two, George and Ferdinand, Later Miss May Santini, seventy as arrested. The" police ‘say sh@hurled the brick at Miss Le Roy. 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