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ak> The . Circulation Books Open to All.’’ peti. MADEMONEY ONBUSDRIVERS, TRANSIT INQUIRY REVEALS Ae eee Sinnoft and Quinn Insured Operators Against Acci- dent Suits 258CLAIMS AGAINST N.Y. Victims of Buses Have Asked Damages Totalling $1,350,- 175 From City. Claims amounting to $1,850,175 against the City of New York (exclud- ing the Borough of Queens) for injur- ries sustained through the operation of buses under the jurisdiction of the Department of Plant and Structures are pending elther in the courts or in the Finance Department, according to testimony taken to-day t Transit Commissi William R. White, Chief Examit in the Division of Claims of the city's Law Department, and Frank Flynn, Chief Clerk of the Brooklyn office of the Law Department, testified that in the Boroughs of Manhattan, Gronx, Brooklyn and Richmond th total number of office claims is 204 and the court actions $4, ‘The total amounts sued for by boroughs are: Manhattan and Brons. Brooklyn fore $ Richmond Total ; $1,350,175 Mr. White said that fifty-eight claims had becn outlawed by limita Yon and severnl were discontinued, but these were not included in claims exceeding a mililon dollars. White sald t mount sted for should not ti taken as a criterion, because some 2 for $50,000 are not worth $500 srence J. Shearn, counsel for the commision, read into the reord Section 26 of the Transporation Cor: porations Law, which requires that no bus line charging 15 cents or less for fare shall be permitted to operate ela! until, the bus owner shail bave ob- tuine:! consent of the city authorities compensate the city for wear and tear of the pavements and file a bond with the Comptrol an amount fixed by the authorittes to the satisfaction of t officer of the city to provide t curity to the city for am- ges incurred by the bus operators. Mr. Shearn pointed out that no bond has been required by the city of the bus owners operating under per- mit from the Department of Plant and Structures, ‘yet the city has in- curred very heavy Mability for this illegal operation,’ Judge Shearn said. He stressed the further point that i? the elty showed it was not liable, the persons injured were limited to an amount of $2,500 lability carried per- Continued vn Second Page. 26 ARE INDICTED IN BIG BOND THEFTS Part of $2,500,000 New York Mail Robbery Pro- ceeds Sold in West. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., ct. 20.— ‘Twenty-six persons living here, in- cluding bankers and bond sales- men and three or four newspaper have been indicted by the Fed- and Jury charged with impll- men, eral ¢ jon in Nation- bond thefts. tT ette French, Uni States Dis- trict Attorney, announe tu it is) charged 10,000 in stolen bonds were disposed of in Min- neapolis., The bonds are alleged to have been stolen in the $2,500,000 mail robbery in New York, Oct. 24, 1921, and in the $1,500,000 theft in Chicago, January 18, 1921. The first arrests were Stanley McCormick, vice president and treasurer of Stevens and Company, a defunct bond house, now on trial on a charge of embezzle- ment and his wife — THE WORLD TRAVEL BUREAU, Pulitzer (World) Fon ‘88-69 Park Row, NY City Telephone Beekman Cheek room tor bageage and day and night rp ycraete ond sravellers’ checks for the} U.S. AND BRITISH MARINES LANDED AT VLADIVOSTOK City in Darkness Pillaged by Marauding Troops; Pedes- trians Held Up. VLADIVOSTOK, Oct. 20 (Associated Press).—Americin and British ina- tines we inded here to-day to guard the uintex of the two ne tions TOKIO, Oct. ~Terror reigns ) (Associated Press) nm Viadivostok as the completion of Japanese evacuatiwn ap- proaches, according to despatches re- ceived here to-day. Last night the ci darkness by the failure of the light- ing plant. White Guards roamed the city in the darkness, pillaging business houses and residences and holding up wus plunged in pedestrians, On the outskirts of the town Japanese troops and Red forces of the neing Fy astern Repub- He Army are reported to have clashed The original plan of the Japanese was to turn over the administration of Viadivostok to the municipal gov- ernment and oll the Reds outside the neutral » until evacuation was completed Then the municipal au- thorities refused to take possession of the war munitions left behind by the Japanese, and the latter sought to open negotiations with the Reds to give the republican troops contro! and thus avold an Interim of disorder. The Chita commanders refused to negotiate and the clash between the Japanese and Reds is reported to Lave. followed. —- 20 STUDENTS HURT IN “PAJAMERINO” Attacked With “Gasoline Bombs” by Rivals. LOS ANGELES, Oct. 20,--More than a score of students at the Southern Branch, University of California, were Injured, one possibly fatally and three seriously, early to-day when gathered for a “‘pajamerino’ party in celebration of a football game to-mor- row. They were attacked by 500 stu- dents of a rival university, The: fought with “gasoline bombs,"" rags saturated and bottles filled with gaso. line, clubs, fists, bricks and torches. 1 brought 260 policemen fracas could be quelled. 6 tacking party ‘fire. woodnlile gathered for the party and a fire alarm was turned in. Several students lay unconscious on the catnpus when police ambulances arrived. DRIVES GOLF BALL INTO POCKET OF ANOTHER PLAYER One of Foursome Crouches at “Fore!” and Catches It DENV Colo., Oct, 29.—The old classic of the diamond, con cerning the ball player who caught a ball in the pocket of his shirt, had its counterpart on local golf course here yesterday. Lee Pickens, smashing a ter- rifle drive down the fairway, cried “‘fore't as the bal! soared toward a foursome ahead, One of the players stooped over, cov- ering his head in conventional fashion. As he did 0, Pickens’s ball landed squarely tn tie pocket lis sweater. Club cffictals vouched for the stovy. (New York World) Publishing Company, 1022, by Pres rid, “Circulation Bs 00 | To-Morrow’s Weather—FAIR AND WARMER. ED ooks Open to All.’’ ‘NEW YORK, FRIDAY, OCTOBER “20, Katered 1922, ‘Insn Matter Second-Clave Post Office, New York, N. ¥. NAL THE NING ITION | WORLD ATE if nm OFFICIALS [BONARLAW'SFIRSTIMRS. MNALLY HAD (QUICK ARREST IN HALL CASE DEMANDED ~ CABINET RECRUITS | MOTHERING MANIA) BY STRICKER ON THREAT TO WITHDRAW CURZON AND DERBY Both Late Hird Have Agreed to Serve With Him in Any Capacity. AWAITS TORY MEETING. Must Be Elected Head by Unionists, but Meanwhile eeks Eligibles. LONDON, Oct. 20 (Associated Press).—Andrew Sonar Law ap- peared to be making rapid progress to-day in forming a Cabinet to re- place the fallen Coalition Govern- ment ‘This was evidenced by the an- nouncement that Marquis Curzon and the Earl of Derby, both men of influ and experienced Cabinet Minis- Nir ence ters, have agreed to serve under in any capacity. Mr. Bonar Law cannot officially % nounce the formation of his Ministry until he is elected head of the Union ist Party to succeed Austen Chamber- jain, but it is generally conceded that this election will be only a formality Despite the fnct that the split in the Untonist ranks has deprived him of such Cabinet matertal as Mv. Cham- berlain, Lord Birkenhead, Balfour and some lesser ligats, politt- cal experts belleve Mr. Bonar Law 1 find plenty of timber among the younger members of the party who he Parl of] twins, WHEN GIRL OF 1 Posed as “about & to Become Mother, Feigned Birth of Twins, PROVED TO BE DOLL (airlhood Chums Tell How Deception Was Discovered by Her Friends. HAMMOND, [nd., Oct 20.—A mania for motherhood with which Mrs, Hazel MoNally, accused of slay- ing her twin bables, was obsessed in her girthood was described at her pre- lininary hearing on a charge of mur- der here to-day. Her defense is that she never had twins, but merely played “mother" with two dolls. Mra. G. A. Kahne and her daughter, who knew the accused woman fifteen ars ago when she was a young girl, declared that she frequently feigned niotherhood. “I recall when she was about #ix- teen she dressed herself so that al her friends belleved she was soon to become a mother. Later she wheeled around @ bab, carriage containing two undies which she claimed were her No one was allowed to look at thetr faces, but we found ont they were dolls drossed as chilliren.”’ Mrs. Kahne's daughter, a girlhood have shown promise in the pulitical) playmate of Mrs. McNally, confirmed field and are marked for asdvance- ment at a favorable moment The Premier-designate was busy seeking out eligible an early hour to-day. His Secretary dectared he is in good health again and ready “puckle to” the work whion Is before him. Certainly he riving every evidence of his old intense energy, though whether he is strong enough her mother's story. Attorneys defend- ing the young woman relied on this testimony to free the girl, Another witness to tell of Mra. Mc- to] Nally’s pronounced “mothur in- stinct,"’ was Mrs, G. Azzato, a girl- hood chum, whore story was sumilar to Mrs. Kahne’s. Attorneys for the defenss pointed |’ to stand the long, hard atrain of office] out that “corpus delicti"* had not yet ts problematical eee BONAR LAW ONCE SPURNED OFFER been proved by the prosecutors. They @eclared no court could assume even @ reasonable donbt that the defendant was guilty unless the bodies, or some one who saw the bodies, are produced. eee OF PREMIERSHIP] WIFE SAYS M’NALLY Is Canadian by Birth and a Bom Fighter, but Fair. Andrew Bonar Ls is a Canadian by birth and is distinguished as be- ing “the man who refused a King’s offer to make him u Premier.” He Is first a business man and carries the tuctics of business with him 4nto his political career rather than the tactics of politics, He was one of Lloyd George's five members of the ¥ Coalition Cabinet, and on two occa- sions as Chancellor of the Exc’ the House of Commons voted budgets of $3,600,900,000 and $3,25 000,000. Mr. Bonar Law wae alv noted for his firm stand on any question he took up. He was u determined op, ponent of the Irish Republican move ment and crossed swords with Lloyd George on tho latter's proposal to re. uume trade relations with Soviet Rus sta. Of him former Premler Asquith sald: "I have for many years been engaged in giving and taking blows from Mr. Bonar Law, but they never left any rancor behind them,"* He was first elected to Parllament from the Blackfriars !iyision of Glas- gow us a Unionist He was born in Brunswick, Canadu, Sept. 16 Real Estate Advertisements tor the Sunday World ! vust be in The World Office To-Day sdefore GP. lo inaure prop r classification FORCED HER TO GO THROUGHWITHHOAX When She Hit Him With Mop and Quit Him, Mur- der Charge Followed. HAMMOND, Ind., Oct. 20 (Copy- right).. We wanted to gratify my husband's pride in fatherhood by enabling him to pose before our neigh bors asa parent. The plan scemed harmless to me, But when I got tired of the deception my husband forced me to see it through. When I finally refused he had me arrested for mu: “Behind the bars in the Hammoni Polive Station here, Mra. Hazel Me Nally, twenty-six, to-day lifted the voll regarding her side of the, “houx (Continued on Sixteenth Page.) “SWORD IS IN MY HAND,” LAST WORD OF LLOYD GEORGE Vast Throng Pays Ex- Premier Tribute as He Leaves for Leeds Address. LONDON, Oct. 20° (Associated Press).—""My sword is in omy hand.’ was th ynote of the farewell of Prime Minister Lloyd George to the great throng which gathered at St. Pancras station to give him an enthusiastle send- off as he left for Leedy to-day to deliver his address to-merroy “fT thank you from the bottom of my heart, that you have come reat assemblage, to pilgrimage, he roe Man. The 4, but hand Odds, but Rector’s Note Called His Mate’ S Words Foolish Pastor Revealed How the Radon of Their Secret Love Grew—In His Diary He Wrote He Never Danced Without “My Gray Wolf Snuggled Beside Me.” The letters Charlotte Mills says she found In a sewing bag after her mother's murder showed the intimate friendship between the Rev. Edward W. Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Mills; that they had a private “post office” in New Brunswick for the exchange of love notes, and a trysting place in the vicinity of where the bodies were found Sept. shows that the rector's wife A new letter made publ had been on such bad terms that arded his wife's words as It has been intimated that bad feeling had existed bet Mrs. Mills that M: 16. and Mrs. Mille Hall thought it necessary to advise “foolish and uncalled for." the two women, and {t is now clear the break was more serious than belleved In this letter “Dear, dear, mine,” and goes on, the rector dear begins: @& — wonder heart of “Darling, I am taliting to you constantly, asleep and \wake."" He tells how their love seems the most precious, wonderful vork of art and how the beauty, wonder, peace, caim, strength and yassion of it grows every moment. ‘It seems as though every moment of separation just binds us more strong- y together, and [ live in dreams vhat we have done « fo whem we have the cpportun’ He reports use of corresponding secretly successful 1 what we will ity.” their is, ex vlaining that he loved her feeling thar their messayes are sacred ond be seen by no one else. He at the first opportunity they w' a day in New York and ies. could we arranz The letter dig sion ehur und he te “4% heart, atiencs close in my arms says, “Onl gypsy, and I am loyal comes this at: bout think you. Plea uncalled for she has changed But her remark int were foolish at should says that iM have “Later, Later je your and true every artling Mrs. Hall—she hasn't a word about you and I don't toward Point ind entirely 1 don’t blame you for being hurt—you know how 1 feel about them. Dearest, fet it trouble you her your letter to me—but A FORD A DAY GIVEN AWAY FREE ’ don't 1 didn't show you Special Daily Prize Until Nov. Ist For See To-Day were wise to send it to Islesford— for she might have commented if no letter came from you. But she didn't it—juet ‘Is there any news from Eleanor?’ As for writing to her—do just ae seems best to you—it will be all #ight either way. The letter o | crush you— you dear wonderful heert In the rector’s love . which he kept during bis vacation to be ex- changed for one being kept by Mra Milla, he calla her his “Grey Wol and tells her how he had gor swimming In his ‘birthday suit.’* tn He relates how he found two of her let ters awalting him at Seal Harbor and asks: ‘Darling, can words ever tel! you how happy these love messages make me?’ He tells of a dance to take place that night, but ‘never a dance for me without my snuggled besid His entry for 12, tells of his be- I would Uke to arms to-alg enuugle up tn y ts what T need, dearest—nothing elav can satiety me tells of receiving her Jetter saying she was sick and that he had become so exelted he forgot to tell her how in passing a pond he “Just dropped off my clothes and y day sult—a gay longed for you the: ede & Young Men's Suits, $14.95, CORNER, B nt in in my birth. kypsy—and how I its and O browns, aingls 7 “What Did You ‘Grey Wolf" | Search for “Woman SOMERVILLE, N, J., Oct Jall and Mrs, Mills. ast night said he had determined After a consultation with Prose: jurors after lunch, taking County Di The Prosecutors of Middle: tion Prosecutor Stricker of this learned about the murders to war: Prosecutor Azariah Beekman Beekman is in a procrastinating, ¢ Mr. Stricker told Mr. Beekman on: his arrival here to-day that if Mr. Beekman did not take positive action immediately, the Middlesex County ‘investigators and Mr. Stricker him- self would withdraw from the case and Mr. Beekman must handle the whole affair at Somerville as a Somerset County matter. Barbara Tough, the middie aged seamatress who has heen Mrs. Hall's contigant Lssecngl she was a sirt, war INDICT | FOUR cops IN LIQUOR BRIBERY; SERGEANT MISSING Bench Warrant Issued For Noziglia; Other Bath Beach Policemen Held For Trial. Indictments charging them with ac- cepting a bribe were returned by the Grand Jury before County Judge Martin tn Brooklyn to-day agalnst Police Sergeant John Norigiia and Patrolmen George Stacey, Walter Asklund and Charles Selfried, all at- tached to the Bath Beach Pollce Sta- tion. Norigtia did not appear tn court and a bench warrant was immediately is- sued for his arrest. The other three men pleaded not guilty and their bai) was fixed at $2,000 each The four policemen are alleged to have accepted $100 from Antonio Mar torello, an expressman of No, 2838 Stillwell Avenue, Brooklyn, in return for his release after he had been caught transporting two barrels of wine on the night of Oct. 4 The penalty upon conviction of the eharge may be ten years In prison and a fine of $5,000, or both, together with forfeiture of office and of the privi ‘exe of ever holding office in New York State EIGHT MINERS DEAD IN GAS EXPLOSION |Four Others Injured May Not Live. McCURTAIN, Okt, Oct. 20 (Apso. | ciated Press) Elxht men were killed and four we badly injured tn an explosion of gas in the Progressive Coal Company's mine a mile and half north of McCurtain this nin The explosion occurred between 7 and 8 o'clock, after thirteen men hai mo entered the mine. _ R. GARRISON GETS PATS pDIvone Oct. 20.--A 28 MRS. Ww. PARIS, lust Jo ance ¢ vr public roe was instituted ree gran livorcing Mrs, Con- aon from Wiltiun York City, waa The sult for jarrisor ary tay by Mr he Grand Jury and remained for an hour. Having insisted on arresting Cliff See Page 31 Middlesex Prosecutor Insists Immediate Action Is Justified, but Beekman Prefers Cautious Course—Widow Confronted by Two Men in in Gray Cloak.” (Special From a Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) 20.—The Grand Jury of Somerset county is believed to be considering the murders of the Rev. Mr. Close friends of Prosecutor Beekman who alked with him after the Democratic massmeeting in New Brunswick to take the murders to the Grand jury to-day and had called the jurors together. jcutor Stricker, Mr. Beekman went to He returned to the Grand etective George Totten with him. sex and Somerset Counties have reached the parting of the ways on the Hall-Mills murder investiga~ county believes enough has been rant an arrest of Somerset wants turther delay ord Hayes and charging him with the murder, only to make the whole investigation seem farcical, Mr autious frame of mind. ie summoned to the court house for further questioning to-day, When Mrs. Frances Stevens Hx!l was called before Prosecutors Beek man and Stricker Monday, she wis required to take off her hat and put on a long gray ulster (#ometiny called a polo coat), It was then that Mrs. Zulies, wife of the watchman at the Phillips farm, was brought in to look at her. It wa given out that Mrs. Zulles did not recognize her definitely as tho woman who had been walking about the Phillips farm making a superficia! survey on the afternoon before the murders. WOMAN IN AUTO NEAR SCENE OF TRAGEDY, Nothing was said, however, of ths presence in the room of B. K. Soper or Watchman Phillips of the Wom en's College. Soper is the man wh: saw an automobile at Easton Avenus and De Russey Lane at 10.45 on ths night of the murders. There was » woman in the car, She w. hatless and wore a long, loose coat, he « Phillfps is the man w saw 4 woman, unaccompanied, come uy Redmond Street and let herself into the Hall home at 8 o'clock Friday morning—at about the time Mrs. Hail said she was out with her brother Willlam, trying to find out why he husband had not come home. Soper at the instance of the Pros: cutor has been going about in a cou ty automobile looking for the which he saw near the Phillips fai These telps ceased uptly two days ago. per sald he had promised the Prosecutor not ‘to discuss any pha« of his connection with the investiga tion, GOVERNOR BELIEVED TO HAVE SEEN PROSECUTORS, The campaign visit of Governor wards last night was marked by grim determination on the part of the local politicians, led by Tax Commis stoner Joe Butler, not to let any of the unoffic! | Investigators of the murders chance to talk to the Governor to the manner !y has been conducte¢ M three ed to de uff the re licemen was a work rters, in anit High Schoo! on et where the meeting ter barring them from up which the Governor walked to the platform, stood in front of them. Judge thi The aisle Peter FP. Daly took note vr proceeding and reported {t to the rnor on the platform, The Gov dictated to him a brief explana- tion that Wus not seemly for the Governor to discuss the tragedy as part of a campaign visit That the Governor did see Mr Stricker und Mr, Beekman and find from them the inside reasons for the!