The evening world. Newspaper, October 19, 1922, Page 3

THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1922, “GIRL FEELS SOUND, SMELLS COLORS a —_—— Chicago Physician Gives Re- sult of Experiments With Wisconsin Child. CAN PHONE BY TOUCH. * Hears Through ‘Vibration of Objects Held in Air Before Her. CHICAGO, Oct. 19.—Dr. Thomas 3. Williams has made public the re- @ult of his experiments wtih Willetta Huggins, the bling and deaf Wiscon- sin girl who, he says, detects colors by the-odor and identifies sounds by the sense of touch, She “heard” Dr. Williams talk, he ®ays, by resting her finger tips on his larynx, his head or his ¢ Yearned to distinguish the vibrations Sef speech through intervening ob- ects such as a billiard cue resting on “the speaker's head or chest. eanght the vibrations in the atc hy holding a sheet of paper between her ands and letting the speaker talk ‘ogainst” it. She heard words sfpoken over the telephone by resting “her fingers against ihe recelver. She *Yearned to talk by holding her fingers on her own larynx, Her sense Dr. Williams tqays, has been developed to a degree hitherto unheard of. This was dis- covered in her sewing class when began to tell different cqlored th by smelling them Well Born Young Man, Cor- nelf Graduate With a War Record, Took to Crime to Supply His Lady Loves With Funds, but Was Careless With His Cigar- of smell, ads : e was able to] ette Stubs. - Ftell by smell not only which student ; bad made a partic ess, but Byecint to The Fventng Wor MINNEAPOLIS, Minn,, Oct. 19. which teacher had ervised ite VER, Oct. 19.—A few cigar-] Miss Lorrain Schnelder, twenty-three, making. She casily distinguished the] ette ends left with tidy intention upon] Ivon, M'ch., had conducted 5 Colors of flowers and even could de-|an ash tray, the brand mark stil!{ dispelled when Miss Emily Schneider, stermine by smell how many persons] visible upon the short, unsmoke@ part,| siding, fearing she had killed a man. Jation-wide search Find Missing Teacher Who Fled Believing She Had | Killed a Man Had St ruck Intruder With Flower Pot and Father Had Conducted Long Search. he mystery of the disuppearance of whose father at ch, was d been a school teacher, her since M Lorrat for her sister, wid he as a ticket seller, and then to “a city in the South." The sister said newspapers heralded the disappearance in a sen- satidnal way, and even after Lorrain learned she had not fously hurt the intruder she was too humiliated to return or reveal her hiding place, obtained employment up to eight were fn 9 room with hér.[-and the persev nee of a detective Miss Schneider resided in a hotel The doctor adds that the has | have to the discovery and arrést| iere.and, according to the sister, she Ysarned to carry on a conversation by}ot one of the most cool and skilied| awoke one night and found an Intoxt- fouch and attends concerts und lec-|oig.up men ever known to the crinj-| cated nan in her room, She hit him tures which she ‘hears’ by touehin, aa mile head ath a RSW © ana y hher fingers to an audiphone. Dr. inal annals of De: on the head with a flower pot, a ed “‘tams attended an Easter servico The arrest oft his young man—he is] when ho fell she thought him dead a *AVilletta and she told him eaco r only twenty-eeven years old—brings| she fled, first to Denver, where she “her on the programme as !t was ren- = \. the downfa :. flered. He continues: to hght the downfall of a young man Seay tier Sine oenee: ot tough’ dice nos] WHY A GUE tainly 4s He) PAGKERPU A | ing cca really orttnal/ uatuter Stop here. She can actually read Ly |and woven here and there through the | (VMS Of & really criminal nature.” * Tuaning her fingertips over rews-!¢abric of it a collegiate record, a war(tummed burelan. Hut hed ; Paper headings of half inch or even record in the British Royal’ Flying! qa, Dumler | But he, s~ smaller type, and she can reatily and |Corpy—and the imevitable “woman in| rear tapteecet sl Tapidly distinguish the denoiinution tthe case.” It was for her and hls|auit. The “jimm a “i paper seco by Moise patio infatuation for her that led him from|and the mask were not for him. 20 | oO dltfexenee of respectatstity to an tron-barred cell. [decided I could be uw. enite e Pec ten eee ning of the story and one at the end.|~ so, instead of skulkine about in the MCT aunt Ghee tet] Richard it. Barton is middle of the night, breaking tnto yh Se anes Ae Oey vice vehman gs” yim back doors or jimmying windows, this M States It is because of Prot, dna, | wia#es, among them college graduate—turned crook—went Fowia report that’ De. Wh Loving,” The latter's about his questionable pursuits !n the ‘Wrthought it necessary tmmaitio istic wort of choice, in early evening, dressed in manner “woman in the ca banke of seventeen b befitting the station in life to which he had been accustomed. He picked his victims carefully, gained entrance publish the yetudy. esult of his exhaust! result xh ane niaie ¥. At the age this E i i Phillips Exeter, going to their homes by one clever ruse or nco fi »MRS. GIBERSON, iter gradus another, held them up and took ‘fer ( SENTENCED TO LIFE, | tass oc 1511. Lie NT URE INCENTLEMAN at Po. STILL CONFIDENT] conn us coon oe ne was out. of | BURGLARY LANDS HIM IN CELL, He entered the home of Mrs. J. W. Dean, one of the social elect of Kan- sas City, robbed her of $9,000 worth of diamonds and escaped, But a few college and entered the Royal Flying Corps for service with the Canadians n the World W After America had entered the confMict he joined the onvicted Slayer, Asserting Innocence, Rests Hope hint i - American 2d Division. Mental lapse|days later, when he undertook to “! ” ads Appeal. from wounds received in service] pawn one of the gems, the police TOMS RIVER, N. J., Oct. 19.—| caused him, so he to go "A, W.| nabbed him "Nite, y Gibersc enten: f »|O. L..” for whieh he was court mar-]| ‘Lr got out on a $10,000 bond," he res, wy, SlBarson\. eeu sige sane tlalied and sentenced to a short term|explained, “obtaining surety by the e§inprisonment for the murder of her! in qeavenworth: /Preaidential clem-|simple process of getting In touch usband, William F. Giberson, slept] ency came to his rescue there and he| with a professional bondsman, who well in. her cell at the County Jail] was released, He drifted then to|agreed to go on my bond after I had ght 1 afiay _| Hollywood, . dabbling tn scenario] pledged myself to turn over all the ele ane ale aetna writin And then Into} loot I had collected In my various fident that the appeal to be filed by] te im ot he woman."| robberies to secure him against pos- cher attorney, William H. Jeffrey, will] ey_gy ROMANCE ‘ENDS DISAS- | sibie loss.” result In a reversal of her conviction nd obtain her Jeffrey has forty-eight hours in which to file an sppeal and move for a new t Mrs, Giberson said to-day she was (Mot worried about the outcome of the ‘eppeal and new trial, as she {s tr nocent of the crime for which she was “eonvicted. .The jury was out four hours. In Denver, Barton, after jumping bis bond, perpetrated several ‘jobs" similar to those of Kansas City, but in each instance the loot was small So he decided he would change his mode of proceedure, He would loot houses at his leisure and hold up the occupants as a finale, His first victims under the new plan, and incidentally his last, were Judge ind Mrs. James Owen, wealthy and TROUSLY. She was married, and when she con- fided to Barton that she was weary of her husband, and suggested a trip to Kansas Ci they went there and there she deserted him. After that he took the plunge—and came up in vcell, He has deciined to disclose the name of this woman, saying only that she is closely related to a high official release uaa) elon «''My onty.concern {s for the health] of the State of Missouri, He has never} 20% 108 onthe 9 reat: nd safety of my mother," Mrs] seen her, he #wears, since they parted ae citarine Ta biel Wisitiity: Of) the ona, piberscn waid.. "As for mysslf, I know in Kansas City, ..{owen home on the night of Oct. 2 by two, { am innocent Up to that tlme, Barton told his] i "Cay Mr, and. Mrs. Owen drive away’ in a limousine, Before the machine was out of sight Barton's finger was on the bell button of the house next door. A majd answered his ring and he asked for “Mr, Car- enter." IMPRISONS MAID, HOLDS UP A JUDGE AND HIS WIFE. ‘There is no one of that name in this house,'' the maid replied. “| guess it must be the house next door."’ That is Judge Owen's home," the maid explained, Then the polite stranger departed. He had learned what he wanted to know. Barton walked boldly to the front door of the Owen home and rang the Delt “Tam Mr. Me! Hough,” he an- nounced. “I @ame to get a copy of Voltaire which Judge Owen said he vould leave for me on the dressing table in his room.” The maid invited him Into the re ception room ana went to get the book. When she returned to an nounce that she couldn't find !t she found herself looking Into the muzzle end of a revolver ‘Just turn around and merch up- stairs quietly,” ordered the c.rango visitor, "If you do ns I say I won't arm you," ‘nto her own room and locked In a el w tell me,” said the Gentleman Burglar, “where Judge and Mrs, Owen keep their jewelry.” His voice yaised slightly, to carry through door, “J don't know,” pleaded the maid You'll have to find them yourself." Ho ransacked every room in the house, searching drawers, closets and crannies and packing up two handbags full of loot, including several articles of jewelry Mrs. Owen had brought with her on her return recently from a European tour, LEISURELY RANSACKS HOUSE AND SMOKES CIGARETTES. During his search of the upper floor he smoked numerous cigarettes of a tain expensive brand, but he took are to deposit the ashes and cigarette stubbs in an ash tray to avoid littering th the floor, And-thus sowed the seed of his undoing. Judge and Mrs. Owen returned at 10. As Judge Owen opened the door Barton stepped in front of him with a revolver levelled at his body In his surprise Judge Owen backed against the open door, causing it to slam in Mrs, Owen's face and leaving her locked out Recovering his raised his walking Barton, but the ¢ smilingly advised hin that. Just drop that wits, Jud Owen ick to strike at entleman Burglar “Better not do stick and put up your hands!" Judge Owen obe: and Barton started backing around him toward the doo As ‘he so Owen made a brealé for the telephone room, just off of the hallwa Barton stopped long enough to open the deor and force Mrs, Owen to enter the hous and then threw himself against the door of the ‘phone room, which Owen was bracing with his body from within, The force of his thrust knocked Owen from his feet and the telepione went clatterir to the floor, but ne had already told the central operator to connect him with the Police De- partment and e completed the call Barton kn Owen had 8 ited an alarm into the telephone trunsmitter and he worked fast. After hurriedly sei person and appropr amount of money and ching Owen's ating small a few trinkets, he turned to Mrs. Owen and ordered her to hold out her hands. ‘I want your ring: he exclaimed. Mrs. Owen started to comply, but at that instant an. automobile horn sounded outside and Barton, evide under the impression the police had arrived, pocketed his revolver and dashed out by the rear door, leaving behind the loot he had packed up To one of the detectives who ar- rived, the cigarette butts left by the gentleman burglar were a8 a beacon Nght. He obtained 4 minute descrip- tion of the burglar from Judge and Mrs. Owen and the maid who had been liberated from her cioset prison, and then started to canvass the downtown hotels, He cultivate: the cigar counter gi and learned from them which of the suests smoked th rtteular brand of cigarettes the gentleman burglar showed preference Ho 4 one oF two prospetive suspects ut cach of the larger hostelries, but none of thom anawoied the description of the man he wantd, ‘The maid marched, and was drigsn «His follow Gotectives wes openly Due THs HOW BLIND |Zwo Women in the Case and Cigarettes Hf DIAMOND HAT Cause Downfall of ‘Gentleman Burglar’ T0 BE SENSATION, MILLE. SOREL SAYS Leading Pinte he Actress, Here on Homeric, Aims to Please “American Taste.” Mile, actress, Cecile Sorel, France's leading jd to-day on her arrival on the White Star steamship Homerte that as she beiteved Americans delight in sensational things she would try to give them a sensation “I have had $100,000 worth of dia monds put on a hat,’ she explained, “and Iam golng to wear {t as soon as I have an opportunity. It may make a sensation, what do you think?" Tho actress, who is of the Comedie Francaise and said to be the richest woman of her profession in the world, is here for a theatrical tour of this country and Canada She was ac- companied by Albert Lambert, also a member of the Comedie Francaise. She sald she was going to the Ritz- Carlton for a short time before Jeay- ing for Canad. During the voyage of the Homerte Mrs. A. R. Williams, of San Fran- cisco, was taken ill, The ship's sur- geon, Dr. R. 8. French, diagnosed her illness ak due to appendicitis. He called into consultation Dr. F. H. Albee, returning from attendances at the Surgical Congress at Paris, wh confirmed his opinion. Dr. Albee op erated upon Mrs, Willams on Monday night She was well on the wa to when the Homerte arrived. rie Jeritzd, leading soprano of the Metropolitan Opera Company; Otto Weil, general ma of the company, and Benno selwitch, pianist, were among tho other 1,200 passenrers. Another wife of Guy ust was Margaret Bolton, She has painting on the Normandy Coast in France and said to-day she hoped some day to give up singing and devote herself entirely to painting, ARRESTED AN HOUR AFTER HOLD UP AND HASTENED TO TRIAL Four Youths Face Rapid-Fire Indictment When Caught as Taxi Thieves, whe speedy arrest of four alleged hold-up men and the recovery of a stolen taxicab resulting from the po lice system of flashing automobile thefts through the greater city In the small hours of t night waa fol- lowed this Morning by the announce ment of District. Attorney John E Ruston of Brooklyn that, to obtain just as speedy justice, he sent the case against th ers to the Grand Jury ¢ would pre four prison ving the day ‘This action was decided on after he had questioned the four men and three of them, it is said, confessed Joseph Blatt of No. 628 Osborn Street, Brooklyn, w on his way ome at 11.80 from a night's cruisins n Manhattan in his new 000 taxl cab when four youtha hailed him at Broadway and Howard Avenue Brooklyn. hey ordere hi to take them to Nostrand Avenue and Bey rley Road, Flatbush. At the corner Blatt was told te Irive around Into Sist Street. Wher he stopped two of his fares got out unit “stailing’’ around until they was near, went satisfied no one i sack and the gang held Blatt up with ers, They found only 85 cents Blatt having wadded $18 in bills uj n his hand; so they took his watch ind chain, his fountain pen and a menthol inhaler for cold made nim leave the tax}, which jrove vway, telling him to run Ike mat Blatt reported the robb at the nider Avenue Station and the de- scription of the missing car was sent to all ions. An hour later Pc Heemam Joseph V ent the Hast Sist Street Station saw two ing suspiciously In front of a ciga store at Second Avenue and 57t! Street and discovered that thelr car was the stolen taxicab, He arrested them and says each had a loaded re- volver. They described seph O'Connor, twent Vanderbilt Avenue, and Th themselves as Jo- yne, of No. 50 as Crae- mer, seventeen, of No. 136 Carlton Avenue, Brooklyn. Later William O'Connor, a brother Joe, and James Dempsey, seventeen, of No, 146 North Elliott Street, Brooklyn, were arrested, All éxcept Willlam O'Con- nor are said to have confessed when taken before District Attorney Rus- ton. The police said al erty except tl recovered the stolen prop- » watch and chain was derisive and advised him n his time trying to pull a Holmes," but he persisted and his pes- sistence was rewarded seventh day of his quest Barton. The prisoner Owen ‘fob’ and oth tation He contessed that with a pretty girl aft Denver and had giver the loot he had spare," was t girl, Ruby 1 jailed also, tion tha source of tho J police announced charge of ageinet her. he caught confoased the s without hes he had fallen tn r his arriy her much she kn “RICHEST ACTRESS” HERE FROM PARIS WITH A $100,000 HAT MLLE. CECILE SOREL, HAZARD OF WRITING DOUBLES HIS SHARE IN FATHER’S WILL}, Webster Ilenry Ketchell Given $50,000, Other Children $25,000, AGO, Oct. 19 ene The hazards « a writer Kiteheli have given to Henr Webster, novelist share of double that of the his late father’s esta other five sons Towner W. will was admitted and daughters of Webster, whose to probate here. Kitchell $50,000, Henry Webster re becouse ‘he 1s form of occupation making his income and Hvelihood celved engaged in a dependent on his present work," the will said. After bequeathing $25,000 to each of his other chil dren and smaller bequests to other relatives and the Northwestern University Settlement, Mr. Web ster left the of his estate, about $150,000, balaned to his widow AUTOS UP IN SMOKE AS GARAGE BURNS Pat Somerset May Be Deported On Evic Evidence of Divorce Suit — ¢ Co-Star in one Bossoms” to Have Hearing at Ellis Island To-Day. Pat Somerset, the English actor, who ts co-star with Edith Day tn “Orange Blossom a Broadway musical comedy, will have a hearing to-day at Ellis Island upon a war- rant of deportation issued from the office of the Secretary of Labor. The warrant, based upon the pro- vision of the Immigration Law pro- viding for the deportation within five years of any alien upon ‘conviction, or admission of committing a crime Involving moral turpitude,’ was 1s- sued asa result of a complaint to the Department by Carle A. Carlton, the- atrical producer, involving the ques- tion of Somerset's relations with Miss Day, Mra. Carlton in private life, Officials on Hllis Island sald the warrant will not be formally served on Somerset’ until to-day, but that there had been an understanding the actor would appear voluntarily at the immigration station at noon to answer the charges of immorality, In defer- ence to tho holders of tickets for yes terday's matinee performance of “Or- ange Blossoma,"* the {migration ait- thorities deferred execution of the warrant. Edith Day was named as co-re- spondent in divorce proceedings brought against Somerset in London In 1920 by his wife, known on the Snglish stage as Margaret Banner. man. An absolute divorce was grant- ed Miss Bannerman after evidence was Introduced showing that ‘Somer- set and Miss Day had been living for some time as Mr, and Mra. Somerset EDITH DAY_ and PAT SOMERSET... \]at Torquay, where a baby was born] erset had planned to return with her. i}to her a week before the case was} but instead came to New York by way tried of Canada, When Miss Day's lug- gage was examined by the customs officials, four pairs of trousers belong: ing to Somerset were found in her trunks Somerset was visited by {mmigra Carle A. Carlton, who married Miss Day in Staten Island on Dec, 20, 1919, while she was the star of “Irene which he produced, filed sult for di- yorce in the Supreme Court here last Janu based on the testimony] tion officials at a hotel shortly after ught forth In the London divorce} his arrival. The warrant of deportta it against Somerset. The sult is tion is based upon the admissionsa-he is alleged to have made concerning his relations with Miss Day, bd Carlton said yesterday that Somer wet had one stay of deportation, in connection with these charges and that this stay, which lasted siaty days, had just expired, thus gti for the new warrant. neduled to be trie¢ next month. At the time Carlton said he intended to divorce Miss Day so Somerset might marry her. Miss Day returned to this country in July of this year to take up the part offered her in “Orange Blos- "According to’ Carlton, Som- NEW YORK LONEL yoms. Whenever he {s home, he ts in bed,’ Mrs. Van Ambergh avers that‘ 'In February her husband went away on a six weeks’ trip with a symphony orchestra while she was suffefing from neuritis, 5 “He wrote to me often,”* her aft davit continues, ‘and his letters wWére beautiful and full of love, but these were not enough to cure me as I te celved postal cards with regard tobias alleged friendship for a dancer with the company.’ . Mrs. Van Ambergh admits the post cards may have been written by an enemy of her husband, but says he heard so often of the alleged infafiin tion alluded to that she believed tbgre “must be something to it.’ The matter came before Supreme Court Justice Burr on a motion tos aside an order requiring the plaiftirr Has “Lived in Purgatory for Six Years,” Her Answer to Musician’s Suit. Mrs. Anna Margaret Van Ambergh of No, 610 West 150th Strect, wife of| © submit to examination before tin! ied Oe Ae . Justice Burr tacated the order. red W. Van Ambergh, clarinet|” Van Ambergh in his sult allegea’hts player, ts authority for the statement wife was guilty of acts of infideity’a: that New York is a very lonely piace.| No, 456 Riverside Drive on July°%5 Firemen ve Cars ue] Mr. Van Ambergh ts suing for a di-}) is ee ® man not named. to ere " he Van Amberghs were marrie® tr O00, voree, Mrs. A ereh cor er- 7 mre st ; ra. Van Ambergh ts counter-| creveiand on April 3, 1907, and mé¥ed e fn the Arrow Garage, No. 142-6 claiming for ¢. separation to New York in 1911, after HwWne we h Street, “early this morning “L bear no malice toward my hus-| for a time with the plaintiff's parefits . destroyed three automobiles and caused | band In fac! I dearly love him,” Jin Detroit. a damage to bul and contents |8ay8 Mrs. Van Ambergh, “but for the > Waid amounti to $12,001 here were ty |last six years L have lived in pur A KISS, ol cars in'the garage whe ree Harves,|satory. I do not suppose that one (From the Philadelphia Inquirer.) 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