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THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1922. WOON EDD” | N.Y. LFE GUARD, New York With Three Children, Describes Scenes of Murder, Arson and Pil- lage Almost Incredible. Zimmerman Pined for Man- hattan Beach Sand After Wedding Wealthy Widow. TAUGHT HER TO SWIM.,| Buffeted Women Among Refugees Gave Birth to Children in Streets and Babes Died of Starvation— All| Christians Expected Death. ‘Former Mrs. Cornelius A. Lane in May Denied Ru- mors of Disagreement. PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Oct. 24. pong the suits for divorce started in the Court of Common Pleas No, 2 one by Mrs. Edwin Howley Zim- fmerman, widow of a wealthy Phila- jphian, against her second hua- 6, a Manhattan Beach, N. Y., ife-guard. Rumors late in May were that Ed- ie Zimmerman, known as the Adonis , Manhattan Beach, was tired of the quiet life his wife wanted him to d, and divorce proceedings were to started, At that time the reports re vigorously denied. Mrs. Zimmerman was the widow of Pornelius A. Lane, a young million- re publisher, who died in 1916. Then the met Eddie. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. OW an American woman, her H two sons, her little eight- year-old daughter, saw bleeding, burning Smyrna at close range, and how narrowly they themselves escaped 1s told in the most thrilling first-hand docu- ment yet received here about the latest terror !n the East. This document ts the personal diary of Mre, A. K. Jennings, which she brought into New York yesterday on her arrival from the Fast, with her two sons, Asa and Wilbur, and her Iittle daughter, Bertha. The whole family, to- gether with Mr, Jennings, who {s 4n International Y. M. C. A. work- er, spent the period during which the Turks were ravaging Smyrna with fire and sword at the Inter- ‘Manhattan Beach folks who gasped surprise in June, 1921, when they ned that Eddie Zimmerman, donis lifeguard, had become the hus- nd of Mrs. Cornelius A. Lane, mil- lonaire widow, accepted as a matter national College, € four miter course to-day news from Philadel-| 7) 0 lege, about four mites hia that Mrs. Zimmerman had sued rom the city walls. mmor divorce. hey eae aS ‘As early as last May \t had become ‘They saw all t went on, Their Ives were continually in amnown that Eddie was not enamored fe as male chatelaine of the danger. And here are Mrs. Jen- thy Mrs. Lane. Being lord of| nings's impressions, just as they @ costly Philadelphia mansion and fotted down from momen @ $120,000 Manhattan Beach villa t to moment of peril, in her diary. hich hjs wife inherited from her first isban much in his ath- The “A. K." mentioned ts of te young life—as iong as that life] Course her husband. Dr. or d to be spent in seclusion, as Mrs.| President, McGlantin is the immerman wished. Neither did trips] President of the International Europe, Bermuda and Palm Beach Coll % 5 tlege, just outside Smyrna. Eddie pined again to live the fre 4 de Smyrna. d untrammelied career of a popular ——— M ay, ! In 1, pd admired life guard. And so one fonday, Sept. Trainloads Ry about a year after his marriage] f refugees coming Into city and jé reappeared at Manhattan Reach p the role which he had played for Bfteen years, or since he was a boy pf sixteen. “Mrs. Zimmerman is the finest oman in the world,’’ he told ac- quaintances, ‘but I like this life—the] 557 “My ; Dit ahe usa’ the peeoie, Uden’ eno omen with nrusing bables and no place to go—Smyrna what gee Due , mets a i on yo Streets packed with people of all you can’t breal ages sleeping on the pavements. road 1s also full of them going by every possible way—one woman with twin bables and other chil dren threw one child vut of the window when it cried. Went into city and the sights were of hor- This was on Ma . The next day Ne # x, y 25. » one knows what to do or what in Philadelphia Mis. Zimmerman de-} wit” happen, People. aay” al “pllshdl Lopealar Sedat tall Christians are to be killed, Ter- ribly hot ov y one yi to stories about Eddie and me," she ex- BIg) Robs Say ery) Oba Itty ny) leave ci All Greek officers’ familles going, also soldiers. Tuesday, Sept. 6.—Turks not arriving so fast as expected, but refugees are coming into the city plained. M Yew York on busin: he beach. ‘urther,"" husband often goes to is. He may be at I won't discuss the matter BM Since then the Zimmermans have} S590 nee das WMiropped out of the limelight. Their area ” sept. @—A. K Weromance was forgotten until news! Chairman ding ana Kitchen ame to-day of (he divorce suit. Committee. Taken over theatre Mrs, Zimmerman'a first husband| to be used by Americans In case fas a publisher. He and she at-1 of n-cessity. Bables born on * mR Fi acted attention at Manhattan Beach 1916 when they built a $120,000 ita at Faimouth Street and Hamp street, for all hospitals full. Thursday, Sept. 7.—Retugees continue to pass the house all m Avenue, only three blocks from] Gay lone here Eddie Zimmerman was pur- Friday, Séot, _@-—-Amerioan, ning his duties as life gi 1 sailors ‘o protect campus. t was one of the show places of the ach, with twenty-two rooms, six ths, a magnificent nursery and a Yaturday, Sept, 9.—In the A. M, rage for six automobiles. However,| ty Turkish troops began firing on refugees. American flag had not been raised except on our house as {t was agreed to ralso it only 1+ case of danger. They put up the flag and about 1,060 refugees with luggage poured onto caiipus. They were not admitted at gate beside our house as that @ Lanes with six children kept ever prner of it alive with mirth until, yw months following the house warm- » Mr. Lane died in the mean time Eddie had become jell acquainted with the family, He ught the Lane children to swim and nally Mrs. Lane became his pupil ‘ ould have directed ail fire that utomobile rides followed, Then in} “ : - We ; way anu over campus. People une, 1921, it leaked out that the life] oer. injured and killed and later ard and the rich widow had become : ; from our window we watched jusband and wife. Eddie was popu-| from Pur window | we watctied r with the children, and the future] pecause mother could not get emed rosy. food. A. K. going by auto into a ANADA RUM PATRON Is LOWLEY'S JOB, WASHINGTON, Oct. 24.—Under the forcement plan mapped out for New ‘ork State, E. C. Yellow Ba.es Prohibition Di I devote special atte olling the Canadian be lenting smugeling PANTOMINE : | Smyrna—shots flying around the car all the way. Defeated army had passed our home all night and during the forenoon VEL Sunday, Sept. 10.—All called to college early, for Turks were pur uing t) defeated Greek army and from window in top of college with my glass I watched the “Battle of Paradise.” The Greeks » who be or Noy. 1, ion to pa ler and pre i day neral si score this town, were broken © One farmer lost se worth of russet app Horrors of Smyrna, Latest Terror of the East, Revealed in Diary of Brave American Woman Who Witnessed Turks’ Unspeakable Atrocities were surrounded by Turk cavalry that came from every direction and they were the target of ma- chine gun and cannon fire from the hills, where among Tc -rible slaughter. Monda ing by the , Sept. 11. Turkis:. Much loo Balls dropping every- the Greek troops. t= troops and shooting every one they could see. Dr. went outside Glautin and ail our sailor the campus to o rs K them to stop looting the settle- ment house, on them, fifty fired hey began fring yor ty shots being t short distance, but the Capt. kept calling to satlors not to shoot for that would have m death to all. were the Only by a mira nt saved and Turks had wanted McGlautin to hand them over to be killed. They took all clothing from Capt. Crocker and President Mc autin, also the tr watches, money and rings. Then were about t Turkish offi stopped then dress Turks pass: sailor with and return 0 kill them when cer appeared ar 1, allowing em to college ing our gate cove guns, took his su nd to A 20 from him, then in dispute as to what they sh ould do, on: pointed his gun to kill, for they did not seem to understand we were Americans, I rushed upstairs and called a T fellow who ha gone to bed for being up to my time te ing. Tuesday, called bedroom explain and so save shoot and a little rest I nights. He ndow just Sept. 12—We 1 About 1A. M. said they we! but our them talking n r regular Turk troops to cay - to Turkish and were all bandits who had come to loot and get all they could, They one of the our boys stopped were Gre them. Thr going to kill k refugees but did take money and other things trom the refi took posts trained the their own guns on bi rushing expecting every moment a We were all In the attic them from battle igees, in t machi: college an g ndits to kec the colleg flere ans and Our loys all nd of the college, fully dressed, ready to run for our lives, The night before we had also gone to bed fully dressed, Wednesday A.M led Sept. 1s—at A. K. to drive ca ar to Smyrna to tell officials bandits were on campus and for them to send regular boys, which bandits were troops to r they did, sent out. But eve ov and th ur ne left their old horses and in place refy yena ad took beat on gees. A. K. and sald we to board de: grabbed a fe before morning. Yelongings in kissed me goodbye, years had an. 8 belonging t¢ came from § 1 all been ordere royer ut once. things and A. K house, y one K drove us to town, passing dead bodies ail the way and expecting to be shot any moment He left us at the theatre, then returned for other Americans. Left the doomed city at 8 P. M., which was then burning fiercely, people rushing madly tn all directions People expected to be massacred Left most of our One sailor said not in been so kind tohim. The last we saw of A. K he had walke (Special to ONECO, Conn gale caused thousands of throughout of buildings this sheds Church How long since Apollo ed into the o _ ow. SIN CONNFOTICUT, The Evening World.) Oct. 24 section. More were demolished. tripped of lat 4 you've had “One Exc —aAaet, GALE BLOWS DOWN HOUSES AND TR Last night's dollars damage than were blown down iting $72,266 FROM HIS im State Boxing Commissioner Also Executor of Estate of Mlle. Lutringer. By the of Mlle, ringer, almost thirty years his house keeper, William Muldoon, head of the State Boxing Commission, $72,265.68, the tax appraisal of the estate filed in the Westchester County ¢ to-day. In addition to being the restduary legatee Mr. Muldoon Is the of the estate, As Mr. Muldoon a claim against the $88,871.11, actual approximately $33,400, In connection thet the } tri will Leonte Lut- inherits according to transfer purt executor has estate of his inheritance is with Mr. alth this claim the papers show the manager of which Mile, I years ago set Muldoon, farm over er presided, some aside $30,000 which was to be hers his death or she should completed thirty years of service in her position, ‘This was in the nature of a bonus and was piaced in her name. Had she lived until February Inst she would have completed the required service When she died she left her estate, excluding $10,000 In legacies, to her employer. Included was the $80,000, with accrued interest In bank, This sum constitutes the claim against the estate which was allowed by Surro gate Slater, relieving Mr. Muldoon irom payment of an inheritance tax upon It. Elopement Alarm Rings Again For Philadelphia Clockmaker upon when have Her Sister’s Marriage Annulled. PHILADELPHIA, Oct, 24.—A sec-® end daughter of Hiram G, Bates, clock manufacturer, b She meet the bridegroom face to face. This elopement came the day fol- lowing Bates's loss of a fight to r gain custody of his seventeen-year- old daughter, Ella, who eloped to New York on June 12, The fatner brought from her home in Haddonfield to Philadelphia, where he had her ar- rested on a charge of incorrigibillty. He asserted ho had been unable to find any record in New York of h marriage to Sherrerd. At the Bates home s eloped. is Helen Bates, twenty, A telegram announcing her marriage in New York to Albert Lester Gardner of Cam- den, N. J., has been received and the young couple are making thelr nome in West Philadelphia apartment. the address of which they refuse to reveal for fear of a visit from the girl's father, Bates ts said to Mrs. Sherrerd ye stood In front the elopement of Gardner's store, in the Chamber] of Helen was denied by her father, of Commerce Building, Camden, yes-| but a unger daughter, Alice, ad- in the hopes of being able to! mitted her sister was married OLD HOUSEKEEPER | turned in a fire alarm: cond Girl Flees and Weds After Father Fails to Have |, This Time to Albany Electrician Widow of Wealthy Dairyman, Left Only $25,000, Has Suit Pending for Dower Rights. WASHINGTON, Oct. 24.—Mre. Cecile Ready Oyster, Syracuse, and widow of the late George M. Oyster, wealthy Washington dairyman, was married nearly two months ago to Bernard M. Shirclitt of | Albany, it was revealed here to-day by Shircliff’s father. At the time of her first marriage & Mrs, Shircliff was only about half the ago of Oyster. Ho died shortly, | | teaving her only $25,000, Proce ings to break the wi and obtain her | dower rights are now pending, | Her second husband t# thirty-two years old und is employed by the [American Telephon and Telegraph | Company. The couple are now In | New York City, Shirclift's father said, —~-__—— STILLEXPLOSION -DAVESMANYTO ~—STREETIN PANIC ps {Three Overcome in Brook- lyn—Hundreds Scared in | Manhattan Blast. | - i} —— Tr Re ty - O05 Mrs GEORGE M OYSTER intense excitement, Hundreds of ten- ants in the nelghborhood rushed to the Explosion of a stil! on the first} street. Many thought the detonation y was due to a bomb, floor of n two-story” frame buliding | "'Poites found the remnanta of a ffty- at No. 245 Wallabout Street, Brook-| gallon still tn the cellar and a dozen pottles of what is belleved to be de- lyn, early to-day sent tenement dweil natured alcohol fleeing in scanty! The cellar was rented two weeks ago Window | to a man whose name and address were not made public by the police. were shattered and three persons were ers in the vicinity Attire to the street. found unconscious as the result of the explosio’ The still wa: gallon capacity of ¢ifteen or sixteen nd was located in the | rear of the building, whieh face four-story tenement house in which | sixty familles live. Lodgers, fearing | further ¢ struction of the Police Sergt. Frederick Babes nd Patrolman Joseph Valoni of the unconscious in an adjacent apartment on the same floor, No one was found | summoned all the local firemen and in the room where the still had been ept A dozen bottles of whiskey and half aid bottles of creme de menthe | Slsted to the street by firemen, were f id in Bartolowiltz's room, the Mercantile police said Bartolowitz waa revived and placed junder arrest, charged with violation | of the State Prohibition Act The police say Bartolowitz has a police record, He denied knowledge Jof the stil, but will be held for hav- ne liquor in his possession ‘The explosion of u still in the » three-story tenement at tat t Inte Inst nf Hall, the building which they were located, was a throe- story frame structure. To-day it ts a mere’ shell, the damage belng esti- mated at $25,000, The ground floor occupied by the Merchantville Water Company, the second, which is the iall, was orcupled by about fifty the P.O, S. of A, lodge, ng a meeting, and tho was members of MISS TUMULTY, NOW ON ROAD TO HEALTH, WILL RETURN SOON MUST HAVE BOOZE BEFORE BREAKFAST, HIS LAWYER SAYS eee “Where Does He Get It?” Asks Justice in Separa- tion Suit. counsel of nd During an argument by Mrs, Mary M. Albro for alimony ounsel f pending her suit fo aration from her hus Albe 'T. Albro, son of a prominent iner- chant of White Plains, the statement was made in court to-day t the Jefendant was a “chron aleohot “Th defendant dc not know th the Volstead Act h been passed. aid the lawyer, in behalf the plaintiff, ‘He is not the nly one does not know the Vo! t s a law,’ was the rejoinder Justice Morsehauser. Mrs. Albro asked for $ a 5 limony for the support of t and Miss MARY TUMULTY child and $250 counsel fees. She XG) HARROW bine none BS Counsel reprene z M Albro Ighter of Josep! feet aid that he bad affidavit from] Ws riously Injur b tent Aug. 12 last ne pra the efendant’s father th i om telly sie ft danger ose , ias been a “chronic alcoholic’ for] he taken hon a. or ten y He si de- latter, who was to Treamant ject of charity on the part of b Silas e 1 lyin r a life lon bung by Two Phe defendant 1s so afflicted with i AN din Paar ar awy “that he has t drink ed thelr servi ’ ‘ f whiske before b akfast physicians, studied th. “Whe does he get it? T didn't Su he Dee ror f «now you could get liqu n White bai (i apauley, a oe tetas mins,” Justice Morschauser com-| pruck's clinte {rOh, you can, gut ¢ slmott ony | WIFE RESCUES HUSBAND aie AS OIL STOVE UPSETS Justice Morschauser reserved de- elston. Man Hadly Barned, ts Removed _—_ te Henplin & OB Be ERS! AD-| Abrah: Frecman' \ ‘ Jor RNY D UNTIL NOV, St tur an ¢ tove in th kit ‘ederal Judge M. r to-day announced ome, © the ¢ that the application of the Continental | Cortlandt Street : Securities Company for the appointment] morning. Instant! th Ye f ree er for th rhe kh Kapid] fre from th ne Tranait, Company because of « threat Hia wife un oat Hi Y de uth rt of interest has] putting at th ft wit bie med N t By the time fire x — etre Se Sie ee ave ee ee aay : | UF HARLEM BLAZE REGISTERED, GIRL SAYS, IN NAME OF HIS DEAD BROTHER Chauffeur Accused After [Te Pays Attention to An- other Woman. Samuel Gamba, twenty, a chauffeur, ELEVEN VICTIMS ARE BURIED TO-DAY living at No. 67 Thompson Street, A — bad idea when he bragged to a Five of Silver Family at Noon] certain young woman that he had and in Afternoon Six of registered in the name of his dead brother that the Information would go Sugarman Family \ny further. But when Samuel began to pay attention to another young Eleven of the fifteen victims of the ludy—well, it was the usual story of Sunday morning tenement fire ut No 1 & woman scorned Avenne were buried Lexington Word reached the police of Sam's to-day, There was one funerul fort statement and Poficetnan ‘Thomas the Members of the Silver family Who’ dich. and one six mem.| Lilienthal wax sent out to investigate bare. of tho seats He found the registering had been . Ver funeral, perhaps because {done in the name of Anthony Gamba, the service was held noar thdcecons twenty-two, w according to the GC the fitecatee ta crowd of 5,000] formation given by the voter, was OBADIC? TRIKE Ratt ysterical| born in New York and was baptised Women. Ihiaeas hall lat the undarolie Anthony's Roman Catholic taking rooms of Alpert Brothors, No.| Church, Sullivan and Prince Streets 141 Bast 119th Street, and when the| The policeman at the chureh found Adlon wan phioad he buried |No record of such a baptism on file it Washington Cemetari ¢ carson} At the Board of Health he learned four black and one white—had tof Anthony Gamtw was dead and buried iss the blackened building where the] Then he arrested Sam on a charge of tims died use resist which ts felony So Kreat was the crowd snd so in-] To-day in the Centre Street Court ! ts emotion that twenty police-[befure Magistrate Earl Smith, Sam called from reserve du pleaded guilty and explained he had hey could do to maintat indjiwen drinking and several of his clear way for the procession, which] friends had told him he would be headed by Rabbi bb Port-]within his rights in voting in his noy by Mrs, Y yer, thejbrother’a name, He was held in wely Survivor of the fut haut of $1,000 for the Grand Jury The Sugarman funi was held —_ it the undertaking rooms of RD TRIAL OF ARTHUR C. nd Schwartz, Ne Fifth ay ‘ Taking of There were fitter nthe in the Many af th a dar tan tha ite and a relier committee has heen formed by Martin J]? Ea ee ae Kenacdy, ‘Ni : rt planned to the # cottage of Yorkville Bank is custe of the| Kennedy in Beverly Glen, where he waa fund and one of the subscribert. Sev-] slain in the presence of Mrs. Madelynne il hundr f doll ave t xiven. Red Cross ald is also be x-ven > GREENWICH FOLK SUFFER WHEN COAL BARGE SINKS Aipecini to The Evening NWICH, Conn. 0 and hot have made — and they sell on their ' Try a package ULDOON INHERITS Mrs.Cecile R.Oyster Weds Again, |SCRFAMS OF MAID AT BURGLAR STIRS wey «| COLUMBIA HEIGHTS — Intruder Dives Through Window in Doctor's House When Discovered. The Columbia Heights section of Brooklyn was thrown into consider able excitement shortly after 6 o'clock this morning by the appearance of 4 burglar in the home of Dr. Willi um Fields, No, 67 Willow Street. Scree ms of a mald who had been awakened by the intruder aroused scores of ne gh bors, and a dozen policemen from the Poplar Street Station scoured the neighborhood for an hour, but to no avail. Dr, Fields occupies a two-story brick house at the Willow Street ad- dress. A maid who sleeps In a room adjoining the kitchen on the ground floor was awakened by the sound of & table being scraped along the floor. A minute later a large man walked into her room. She let out a piercing scream and the man retreated and dove through a kitchen window. The physician came running frem his upstairs room and telephoned the police station, two policemen respond. ing. Several neighbors also phoned the station, and in about three min utes there were twelve policemen on the scene. Investigation revealed that the burglar hgd climbed the rear fence and had escaped through the home of William Irish at No, 34 Orange Street Nothing was missing at the home cf Dr. Fields. Four Phone Girls Brave Death, : Sticking to Posts Amid Flames premises, "Pwo Overcome in Doomed Building as They Remain to K Summon Firemen From Nearby Towns. Clymer Street Station found Lou MEROHANTVILLE, N, J., Oct, 24.—Praises are being ‘sung here to- Bartolowitz, thirty-two; ms wife, | ¢ of four telephone girls, comprising the night shift of the local thirty, and son, outs, one year old, | exchange, who braved death last night by sticking to their posts until they those of several surrounding towns and cities when flames enveloped the building in which they were working. Finally, two of them were carried out and the remaining two were as ey third was the telephone exchange. About 9 o'clock members of the lodge smelled smoke and found the entire first floor was in flames. The Darrow stairway was choked with smoke, and it was with difficulty that the men fought thelr way to safety When notified of the fire the girls began calling members of the Merchantville Volunteer Fire Depart ment, . They were four Anna Fallon, nineteen, twenty-three, of and Mary Allen, Moorestown, and Anna Yeager of Camden and Helen Seman of Mer chantville, ‘Th gaining headway filled with smoke, but the continued at their switchbou all the firemen and the nearby towrl* had been notified When the first firemen arrived thes fought their way to th where they found Miss Yeager and Miss Seman overcome by smoké They carried the girls out and other firemen took them to the home of Mr Korgan Toughill, near the hal) where they received first aid, Th other two operators were able to #¥ unassisted to their homes. The fire, which lighted up the sky for miles, Kot beyond control and 9 call was sent to Camden, from whicl: elty fire-fighting apparatus wee rushed, Two hours after the blaze Was discovered !t was under contro} es weaigereeinees “LIKED ’EM BOTH,” SAY HE IS BIGAMIST Wiv Testimony Lands Hoboken Man in Jail. James Smith, a telephone linemaa, of No, 268 Sixth Street, Hoboken was nocused of bigamy by two pretty Recorder Cars. flames rapidly we and the building w operato: 4 unit young women before ten In Hoboken to-day. He was held in $2,000 bail for the Grand Jury, Wife No. 1 was Marie Handley wepty-two, of No. 419 Baldwin Ave nue, Jersey City, whom Smith mar ried April 1, 1919, in Jersey City They lived together seven montha, rated. On Aug. 2 last when they sep Smith married Miss Charlotte Farley of No, 1107 Madison Street, Hoboken She ts twenty-one. Recently the first wife learned ¢ Smith's whereabouts and wrote a tter to him. It was found by the second Mrs. Smit he arrest fol- lowed. Smith said he had no explanation, but that t J them both. The friends Piccadilly Little Cigars kept — show that merits. today— vial alain Mocs They're guaranteed. Tea ook mene tain 10 In the package vn a °"| Claro—Colorado Clare—Coler cond floo) ”