The evening world. Newspaper, October 16, 1922, Page 1

Picturesque Life Story of “Al” Smith, by Martin Green t To-Night’s Weather-—PROBABLE SHOWERS, EDI TION WORLD |" Gireutath on Books Open’ to tion Books Open to All.” | “vol. LXIIL NO. 22, 180—DATLY. c ht (New York World) sore Publishing Company, 1922. NEW. ‘YORK, MONDAY, HEIR I 76, 400 DRIVERS GET NEW BUS PERMITS GIVING CITY, FOR FIRST TIME, SHARE IN PROFITS ym GOV. EDWARDS SAYS GOLF DIDN’T COLOR FRELINGHUYSEN Five Per Cent. of Gross Rev- enue Must Go to Munici- pality, License Provides. — HAMMONTON, N. J., Oct. 16. TO: OPERATE 33 LINES. Gov. Edward I, Edwards of New Jersey spoke at Hammon- ton to-day in his campaign for United States Senator, and said he wanted to refute charges that he “rum hound."’ The Governor invited his hearers to Mayor Hylafl Hints He'll Run for Governor in 1924. was a inspect his countenance and see if he looked like a ‘rum hound.” “And when Senator Freling- huysen comes here | want you to look at his face," said the Gov- ernor, “Don't let Frelinghuysen tell you that color came from the meeting of the at which tempo: granted to "During a special Board of Estimate, rary permits were than four hudnied bus operators on thirty-three routes, Mayor Hylan to- more day offered to swap bus franchises for] goif links. That cclor cost trolley franchises with Edward A.] money.” Maher jr., general counsel for t Mrs. Ralph W. Donges, wife of Judge Donges of the New Jersey Cir- cuit Court, another speaker, attacked the tariff and described President Harding as ‘'a stuffed Moses leading people back to normalcy. YOUTH ENDS LIFE IN “DEATH CHAIR” Third Avenue Railway System. Like- wise, the Mayor indicated that desplto the setback given William Randolph Hearst and himself at the Demoera Convention ut Syracuse, he is likely to enter the race for Governor two years hence. “I may be a andidate for Govern next time," said the Mayor, “and with the help of a right-minded Leg- lature I will find to clean up way © whole transit situation once and for all."" franchises for the present franchises of the Third Avenue System, the only traction line of importance in the city ‘that is not bankrupt, created a mild sensation at the meeting. Realizing that he might have spoken too freely thout consulting other members of Lay Naked in Steel Plate, Put Copper Plate on Breast, Turned on Current. he board, the Mayor qualified his Ss first announcement with a second to} George West, twenty-one, of No. 163 the eff that if the Third Avenue] Sylvan Street, Rutherford, N. J., com- wants to trade “we'll take the mat-| mitted suicide by self-electrocution ter under advisement."* yesterday, according to the report of The buses for which temporary] the County Physician, Dr. William E Ogden. To-day, and Sophie West, permits were issued to-day have been however, eperating for a year and a half out- side the law and under sixty-eight supervisors, who are on the city pay- roll.. All this time, and despite the cost to the city of supervision, not one cent of profits has found its way into the city treasury. The new permits order 5 per cent. to be paid the city. Mr. Maher immediately promised to obey all conditions of the new permits and even offered a 3-cent fare on crosstown lines in the Bronx when the Mayor made his offer to exchange the trolley for bus franchises. The entire meeting, in the opinion Margaret his sisters, dec the young man’s death was accidental, and styled Dr. justice beth brother West, a gem cutter, was found dead by the sisters in the attic of their home, following their return from a visit in New York, According to the county physician he had lain down naked on a steel plate, placed a copper plate on hi brast and then pulled a cord on a spring which released the current from ed Ogden's report an in- to themselves and their ? emer Begins in EVENING WORLD TO-DAY—Page 24 1922. PHONE TAPPERS BUSY IN HALL C BRITAIN REFUSES U.S. PLEA TO HUNT RUM ON OPEN SEA Dry Navy Must Stay in Own Front Yard, but England Promises Co-operation. “FREE SEAS” IN DANGER. Unwillingness to Extend Right Beyond Three-Mile Limit Is Explained. WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 (Associated Press),—Great Britain, in a com- munication delivered, to-day to the State Department, is understood to have declined to agree to the sugges- tion of Secretary Hughes for a recip- rocal extension of the right of search and seizure so as to give the Amert- can Prohibition Navy jurisdiction outside the three-mile limit. At the same time the British For- cign Office assured the American Gov- ernment that every precaution would be’ taken to prevent violation of the American Prohibition Law by rum smugglers under the British flag. It was said that officials at Canadian and other ports had been instructed to prevent as far as possible the is- suance of fraudulent clearance papers and other improper practices com- plained of in Secretary Hughes's Prohibition note. The British communication, in reply to the one sent to London sev- eral weeks ago, presented to Secretary Hughes by the British Am- bassador, Sir Auckland Geddes, Al- though department officials would not discuss the subject, there were indica- tions that the refusal accord a reciprocal right of search outside the usual limits of territorial waters would be considered as finally block- ing any extension of such authority to Prohibition officers. Orders already are in effect direct- ing the Prohibition Navy not to oper- ate outside the three-mile line ex- cept in the case of vessels in com- munteation with the shore by means of their own small boats, and it has been the apparent belief of Adminis- tration officials that no extension would be in accordance with inter- national practices unless it were made so by some specific agreement as that proposed by Mr. Hughes, The British Government declined to sent to extension of jurisdiction through the establishment of recipro eal zones in which British and Ameri- can shipping would be respecti subject to search by American and British authorities, on the ground that was to SHIP AND $100,000 |HALL ‘DARLING BABYKINS’ TO SCOTCH SEZED ON] HER NEW FOUND LETTERS TO BOOTLEGGER BANKS Cutter Hahn Cree Creeps Up in Fog on American Schooner . Off Jones Inlet. SMALL BOATS ESCAPE. Five Flee With Rare Cargo to Shore, but One Limps and Is Captured. The United States cutter Hahn, hooch hound of the nearby Atlantic, came to the Battery to-day towing the green two-masted schooner Em- erald Digby of American registry, commanded by Capt. J. A, Williams. In the hold of the schooner were 1,000 cases of Lawton's Liqueur Scotch, a choice brand which seldom gets out of the British Isles, Scotch of such quality 1s sold by bootleggers in the city at from $90 to $110 a case. The Hahn went out to the Boot- legger Banks off Jones Inlet late yes- terday afternoon. There was a thick mist. The Hahn is painted battle- ship gray and her visibility was low. Capt, George V. Tawes made out the schooner at anchor about eight miles off Jones Inlet and crept unobserved to within a mile and a half cf her and anchored. ‘There was a cluster of small fishing boats about the schooner and bur- lapped packages could be seen going over her side into them. After watch- ing six of them get their load and leave, Capt. Tawes sent a one-pound shot whirring across the bows of the Digby, as notice to her to stay where she was and ran over alongside. The Hahn caught one launch which had engine trouble and couldn't get away with the others, which scurried for shore. In it were J. C. Garrity and Albert Simone. The decks of the Digby were lit- tered with potatoes, carrots and sab- bages in barrels, bags and crates. The whiskey was in the hold. Capt. Williams and his crew of eight West Indian Negroes were taken to the law department of the Custom House for questioning. When Capt. Williams was asked for his ship's pupers he was unable to find them. THIEVES BLOW SAFE AT COMISKEY PARK Were After $28,800 Re- ceipts, Got Only $100. CHICAGO, Oct, 16.—Five men, ap- parently in search of $28,800, ceipts of the Cubs-White Sox championship game yesterday the re- city sur- Woman Planned Hall Murder And Alibi Months in Advance, Detective Story Writer Says Leroy Scott, Whose Constructive Imagination Created Baffling Mystery Stories, Uses Same Faculties to Analyze Crime That Defies Solution. Leroy Scott, whose New York detective stories, “Children of the Whirl wind" and “Partners of the Night,” have thrilled thousands of readers, has written for The Evening World his hypothesis of the Hall murder mystery. Using the constructive imagination of the writer of fiction, probing into the possible motives and impulses of the person who killed the New Brunswick clergyman and the woman leader of his choir in so ghastly and dramatic fashion, Mr. Scott points the finger of suspicion in the direction of “the woman unknown.” Do the opinions you have formed on the case agree with this forceful analysis? By LEROY SCOTT. In all my experience with the mystery stories of real life, there has not been one in which that ancient axiom, “Hind the Woman,” so surely points so straight and accusing a finger toward the solution as in the Hall-Mills murder, Just as the clumsy and flimsy Hayes accusation feebly ex- ploded, so will all other theorles and arrests of the authorities feebly explode which do not have as thelr central figure a keen-trained avenging woman. Find the woman! The fumbling—and perhaps purposely fumbling—authorities must see this their obvious task, Certainly this must more and more become the public's chief interest, To my mind, the psychology vehind this famous double murder is unmistakable. Jealousy, revenge, have ‘een the motives. Behind it all there has been a woman who has felt herself wronged—who has planned carefully, biding her time—and then has struck, this was no act of male Jealousy, no man is behind this mystery It js human nature—or psychology, it you like the larger word—to vent one's wrongs, real or fancied, upon the peracn causing them, to find wild satisfaction !n the mutilation of that person. ‘This matter of mutilation—the human instinet to deface, tear up the hated thing—must be constantly borne in mind in any attempt to study the psychology of this murder. If male jealously had brought on this tragedy, then Dr. Hall would have been the one whose body would have shown marks of vindictive fury. But Dr. Hall got just one clean, death-dealing bullet; the other marks upon his body were apparently no more than the results of a hand-to-hand struggle. On the other hand, one fatal bullet into Mrs, Mills’s head did not satisfy To me, as its prime instigator. (Continued on Second Page.) Husband Says Wife Killed Twins; Substituted Dolls for Them is <a nl Woman Arrested Months After She Took Children Away For Treatment and Returned With Manikins. . SOUTH BEND, Ind., Oct. 16.—A remarkable story is revealed here in the arrest on the charge of double murder of Mrs. Hazel McNally, twenty- six years old, formerly of Hammond, Ind., now of this city. It ts alloged by Frank McNally, fifty years old, and husband of the woman.| undisturbed, It will be some lime be- that she murdered her twins, born On| fore you can see them." Dec, 8, 1921. The children disappeared, McNally said he was content to rely according to MeNally, between Jan. 25) on the experience of his wife, because and Feb. 1 she had been a nurse. He complied Mrs, Me who is a trained) with Mra, McNally's request for nurse, professed to see physical de-| twin baby carrier. fects in tho twins soon after thelr] mn May, McNally informed Jellison, birth, the husband claims, and she} pe discovered by accident that the left her home in Hammond on Jan.| supposed bables were dolls. At the ostensibly to place the children In same time the discovery also was a Chicago hospital for treatment, She| made by nelghbors and the Hammond returned home soon, according to her] police were notified. husband, and explained that the twins Sd would be left in the hospital until] Ray ROAD STRIKE INOLATES CITY February. OF DUBLIN. Prosecutor: Jeliison 3 McNally! perFAST, Oct. 16.—Dublin advices told him that on Feb © woman| to-day reported that city isolated from gain went to Chicago and on her re-/ southern Ireland owing to a strike on turn had with her the supposed chil-|the Great uthern and Weastery Ireland's largest ra{lroad. sys dren, dolls. he twins have weak eyes," it is told her husband, kept in which were in r lity two large | cca ciesiine THE WORLD TRAVEL BUREAU. Arcade, Pulltzer (World) Buildin rk Row, N. ¥, City. 0. Cheek room for bi en day and night joney orders and ellers’ checks for sale,—Advt. still very il and alleged sho must be remain are and t a darkened room Entered as Second-Clans Matter Post Office, New York, N. ¥, MRS. MILLS HIM REVEAL Iprivate Detective Asserts Packet /of Love Notes Upholds Jealousy Theory—Clashes Among Official Investigators Hold Up Case Pend- ing Appointment of New Prosecutor. (Special From a Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., Oct. 16.—In answer to an accusa- tion by Miss Sallie Peters, the friend who has been caring for Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall since her husband and Mrs. Mills were found murdered on the Phillips farm, that the telephone wire into the Hall home had been tapped, members of the staff of Prosecutor Stricker asserted to-day that the Prosecutor's telephones had been subjected to eavesdropping. Ralph V. M. Gorsline, a vestryman of the Church of St. John the Evangelist, who has been questioned frequently because of his intimat knowledge of the private affairs of members of the church and choir said to-day: “For several days, I have noticed a funny click in my telephone which has convinced me that somebody is overhearing all conversations between my home and office and the-outside. I have not made any fuss age ‘ik I Bave no secrets from anybody.” KL Public curicsity, and Interet AS ORDERED SAVES} SEVEN IN ELEVATOR nection with the case. The scenes about the Phillips farm yesterday showed the way in which the tragedy mystery has inflamed fhe public Imagination. The farm was overrun by sightseers all day. It was a sight to make a shovman Fasenans O6W Slightly envious. The crab apple tree on the Lure as (Car Balle Sis knoll where the bodies were found as War Pails ¢ was stripped of all its smaller Stories. branches by souvenir collectors. They tore boards from the barn back of the farmhouse, They broke into the house and carried off rugs and some of the smaller pleces of old mahogany furniture. There were thirty auto- mobiles parked in the lane at 11 o'clock last night. INQUIRY HELD UP BY CLASH OF INVESTIGATORS. Middlesex and Somerset ,Countics Seven persons In an elevator in the loft building at No, 828 Broadway pwere Injured at noon to-day when the cable snapped and the cage dropped from the sixth floor to the basement. “Bend your knees, everybody,"' one of the passengers shouted, and this warning 1s believe” to have been the reason why nobody had to be taken to a hospital or the morgue. The in juries were comparatively slight and all the victims were able to go home after treatment by an ambulance sur- geon ‘The operator, Rocco Falotico, 67 East 4th Street, tusions and lacerations. The vthers had similar injuries. The victims, aside from the operator, were: Louis Emanuel, No. 2982 West 17th No. suffered only con- Street, Coney Island, H. P. Feller, No. 239 Eust 115th Street. Harry Goldstein, No. 480 Georgia Avenue, Brooklyn Miss Sadie Goldstein, No. 223% Douglas Street, Brooklyn Herman B, Herman, No. 1058 Simp- son Street, the Bronx, Louls J. Reiner, No. 585 Quincy Street, Brooklyn The police are makir tion. SUPREME COURT GRANTS REVIEW IN CRAIG CASE Sentence for Contempt by Judge Mayer to Be ITeard on Appeal. an investiga WASHINGTON, OCT. 16 Review by the Supreme Court of the order of United States Dis trict Judge Mayer, holding Charles L. Craig, Controller of the City of New York, in con tempt of court, and sentencing him to sixty days confinement in the County Jail, was granted to: day, although the court at tts last term had denied a similar application. await with eagerness the announce- ment of the appointment of a super- seding prosecutor to take charge of the Investigation of the murders, Lo- cally, It 1s understood, any further progress in the case cannot be made under the present combination of in- vestigators, Ferdinand David, is at odds with his John Ferguson, selected David, County Detective fellow detective, Prosecutor Stricker a former Newark po- Jiceman, to succeed County Detective Pelletier, who died two years ago. The court refused to confirm the des- ignation, insisting that Ferguson bo named. The situation ts a deadlock, with each man trying to show himself more efficient than the other and seeking to discredit the other's work. The Stato Constabulary refuses to work with either, It 1s known that within a few days after the first of m arrived a complaint was sent to ‘Trenton that every report they made to the county prosecutors found its way to the counsel for Mrs. Hall. ‘The elty police are barely on speak- ing terms with the county authori- ties Prosecutor Bi kman of Somerset County ts now at odds with the Mid- diesex Prosecutor's office and his feeling is shared by his county de- tective, George Totten. APPEAL TO TAKE OVER CASE REJECTED BY JUDGE. Judge of the Peter I’, Common Ple: Daly was approached by Mr. Stricker and Mr, Beekman several days ago and asked to take over the leadership of the investigation by designation of Supreme Court Justice C, W. Parker. Judge Daly has the public confidence us well us the respect and regard of all the conflicting officials, But he flatly his c fused to take the job, saying yurt calendar was behind sched- sea an electric light chandelier above his prised and bound the Negro watch- 9 QEMEss the Mayor's friends who filled the|ho.4 : such a step not only would be out of] ran at Comiskey Park and blew open hn m, was a record breaking “home-| oT. sisters say the young man had|hatmony with established maritime Man session” for dohn ¥, Hylan. His § y young man had} A is the safe late last night. Only $100 m no reason to kill himself. They be- practic ut would set a A Precedent 2 Honor scintilated with wit and ma-| jo eee se accidentally Mille bs — 4 Was in the safe. i chine gun repartee, in which Goy,] Ye | BAR ROHS ioe Stanley Wilson, the Negro watch- . [fE Miter, the Transit Commission, “in- ee er eter, aaa NEWARK DRUNKS man, became confused under police uae junction Judges" in general and Jus- adh ie Bk Fa "i . questioning and his versions of thy eo | work and which he used for eutting| ~~ MAKE NEW RECORD | Gntecnateres somontat, the polite ri ‘ stones which he sometimes brought bh ik 1 (Continued on 8 home. ae Coons A ‘ : aoe u ==] Yesterday, they say, they came to] 19 Alcoholic Patients in E nt h ad ds, Veer acate, Sih aoe amieanine| Hospital Over Week-Find, | WiLL BRING HOM 7 e Wo cA that he was to meet them in the city ai = t m A nd CG Se at 6 o'clock. He had some work t What is thought by doctors to TROOPS FROM RHINE aw I Cd an do in the garden and planned to leave be a week-end record was estab- a 7 far row Rutherford at 3 P. M lished at Newark to-day when a | Harding Said to Have De- cer They were not particularly alarmed : 7 || when he did not appear at six o'clock, | Unt showed nineteen patients in cided Upon It. Yor but on their return, finding the bath the City Hospital suffering from WASHINGTON, Oct. 16.— The 1,000 wer) ME. World advertising week ending Oct. 14 as) tun overflowing and the water running | various forms of aicoholism, all Jeompared with corresponding week last year: " Americun troops constituting the pin ' *| full blast, they started a search which ee vere brought in Sature A of whom wer rought in Satur United States Army of Occupation in 10,600 more agate lines. resulted in the finding of the body meer he: le i y rest ' 7,386 more “Help—Male” ads. They think he had turned on the nse Germany are to be returned home, it ' : ee tae ia a - ome of the inebriates are in a ; are 4,293 more “Help—Female”, er for a bath preparatory to th was understood to-diy following a D8 t "903 e “T'o Let” ad: New York trip and then had run up| serious condition, but those suM- | conference of Seeretury of War Weck: own 4 Ree AUIS: waaay Sie | to the attic to see after his electrical] ciently recovered to stand on |and Gen, Pershing with President ‘one 898 more “Business Opportunities” | apparatus, when he was ed.| their feet were sent to court to be | Harding. you 875 more “Real Estate” ads. Neighbors verified the sisters’ story.] arraigned, It was learned that this question s or SEPARATE WORLD Dr. Ogden to-day reiterated his sui- Physicians declare the change was taken up by Weeks and Pershing t in 41,934 fos! Cast “Weer cide finding and expressed amazement] in temperature and lack of warm | with the President and that a virtual nder " at the ingenuity of the improvised] clothing contributed to their acute [decision was reached to return the a M N N¥ uo 17,125 oven sewsraren “death chair." illness. American Army on the Rhine 1 in ee now, ding are tine um- For Special Daily Prize for Four Weeks “What Did You See To-Day?” See Page 23 | } | | |