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.To-Night’e Weathor—FAIR AND borer. = f THE H-vENIN PINAL et) EDITION | R BY EYE-WITNESS To-Morrow’s Weather—FAIR, LISS ° “Circulation Books Open to All,” }. -VOL. LXIII. NO. 22,189—DAILY. Copyright (News Pabiiching hatte” NEW YORK, THU RSDAY, ocTOB Wecond-Clase Satter 2 6, New York. x xX. Entered av Post Uftic: ER 1922, mate 00,000 FASCIST ITALY UNLESS GOVERNMENT SURRENDERS PEACEFULLY KING DSSOLVES PARUANENT DATE OF ELECTION NOV.15 Under ° adér, Say Cabinet » Doesn't Express Peo- + 7) pigs Will. WS 100,000 NEWLY ationalist. Movement, Be- gun Three Years Ago, Aims at Disruption of Socialists. LISTED. ROME, Oc Pypeenito Mussolini, 4 of the Piati, has called together all tl ae Jeaders of that organization Mliitary secttons of the 1 Campaign ~ Already Way With Bonar L Lloyd George F (Associated. 1's w LONDON Press).-—A (Associaty] ultanecously 1) ordered ation dissolving to ep in readiness the 800,000 workers} Parilament was signed by King p haye jeitied the Fascist! organiza-| George this morving at a privy coun- to co4pperato at an opportune|}cll held at Sandrifgham, the Royal jament with the military sections. estate In Norfolk. ‘The proclamation ‘Fhis {s interpreted here ae prepara~ for the assumption of power by the Fascistt. LEBIPON, Ot, 26.—The offivin! or- ib) of the Fascirt! in Romo is quoted jclaring: “We ure on the evo of 1 aissored event."’ The conference HA Rvme comes directly upon the heels jtiee great Fascist! congress at Wmples, which closed yesterday. japles despatches last night quoted Mussolini ax exclaiming, upon is, departure for Rome: “I take a lemyn oath that either the Govern- will be guzetted this afternoon. Tv ) proclamation ordered the os- bling of the new Parliament on } - general clections were act, for 15.) King signed e further proclam, ation authorizing’the sumtidning of a meeting of the Peers at Holy- the pu u represen- Nov T a rood Palace, pose of electing the sixt« tative Peers of ‘Scotland to serve in the new Parliament ches F Thirteen hundred candidates have er oe i Cordele His sd aie: alrendy entered the campaign for peru” te Fascist! or we will) bership inthe House of Com- ep. fey Force mons, Of these cb are Con NAPLES, Oct. 26 (United Press) p = : . servatives. Tn rot rs Labor} He Fakcist! National Council con gued its sessions here after tle rank file of the party left, at the con- sion of the National Convention. @ council conferred with Michele mehi, Secretary of the Fuscisti. nchi, in an address, stated that the clstf. hud enrolled 600,000 mombers shave issued 300,000 party mem- ehip cards, which he suid was the Pgest number ever issued by an italian political party. Bianchi stated that the Chamber of Deputies no longer represents the ountry, and that therefore any Cabi- hét springing from the present Par- lament fs illegal. After the instruc ons to go back to their distri embers of the National Council lefed to adjourn. The Fascist! party is made up of emé Nationalists. The movement me into prominence in 1919 when E ‘of Fascist! wero orgauized to bat’ the Socialists who had seized y factories throughout the coun- 400 candidates field, the Asquithian or Iti ee Lihert the Lloyd Georgian or Li erals 200. Tho little Welehman who lost his post us FP Mniister last week {s vigorously striving to increase National (Continued on Eighth Page.) —_ BONAR LAW’S FIRST TASK TO PUT IRISH TREATY IN EFFECT, HE DECLARES Mantfe: vs Tesued Says Tranqeallity, rieudship and Peace tn Judia Are Sought. GLASGOW, Oct. 6 Press.)—Prime Minister Bonar Law, in discussing his polley, told @ meeting of the West Scotland Unionist Association to-day “My strong belief is that this na- tion needs above everything elso rest and tranquillity, and my policy will be a negative ons in this sense."’, The Government's policy, said the Prime Minister, would be to leave the (Associated Antrew recovery from the war to the untram- meled Initiative of the men and wemen of the country Bonar Law was unanimously adopted to-day as the Conservative and Un- fonist candidate for Parliament from the Central Division of Glasgow. A resolution of confidence in him was passed. At the Royal Exchange he recetved a rousing reception. He said it was not an occasion for him to make a speech or try to obtain con- First in Business Opportunities’ “Business remaitiee” jaan ll the other jew Yor newspa| ined. tip the Tease ‘The World advertisers get the vesults. jer September “Bysiness Opportunities: ‘HE WORLD. e Times. fhe American.. he Herald... je Tribune.. 'E WORLD'S Majority..5,427 ads. he World prints ore P¥@ppertunities® thao » he added, the position which I am called, whether it be fo good or bad. I shal! always realize thi the real foundation of the welfare an prosperity of this country ts thet trad. and industry should flourish, and any- all the September “BUSINES: 15) iaadlaiadal seat (Continued on Eighth Page.) FIZE HNLANDISGUSSES [BROADWAY SES EVERYTHING ELSE | MEN BATTLE: IN AT BUDGET HEARING) — FLEEING TAXICAB Talks a Lot About Gary, Buses, ‘‘Kept Press,’’ Not a Word on Budget. Crash of Glass and Shouts Arouse Throng After Mys- terious Attack. VERMOUTH. UP Wadleigh Girls Called “Flap- pers,’ but for Second Time Fail to: Learn. Civics. AGAIN.|FIGHT IN- APARTMENT. Arresi for Felonious Assault Follows Clash on Upper West Side. statutory public hearing York City's $361,000,000 ghest tn all history of in City Hall to- 2 of ot The final crash New budget—the The of a breaking window wiilch showered pedestrians with glass, and tha shouting of men on the third flo followed by erie a bery right, eager ‘g' in the Wad- dashed from the bulldtng leigh Migh Sdliool. Thes taxicab whic same gti day startled after fountain knowiedge ‘at the] Broadway ond Sid Street shortly be- fore last midnight and caused a great, crowd ‘to: collect. The excttement ended when Jobn Mecutt, twenty-nine years old, of No. 214 Maat Léth Street, was looked up ini'the West 68th’ Street Station, harged with felonious assault. According to the police, the fight was in the apartment of Harry Sar- tore, forty-five years old, q Jewelry bilesman.” 16 told tle ‘pollee that McCort came ‘to ‘hts apartment ond inquired for Edward Massey, Sar- toris's nephew, Who lives there. Mo- Gort, when told Massey was not homo, tried to force his way into the apart- mént. » Sartoris wears many étamonds and has a quantity of valuable stones In his gpartment. He tried t6 keep 1 Cort out, he safd,.and grappled with him. Then, Sartoris alleges, McCort Board o mahogany horse- shoe, but were tnstead treated to a dissertation on just wiiat degres of kindred cklate between ’a “Martiat, “a Manhattan, a Bronx or an’ of§-faéh- toned cocktathand -Freneh, ttallan or "Hoboken yomebrow Vermoug “* Five utes was Jevoted to call- ing e names of virions depart- monte and thé Stdgot® eatiates of cach. ‘The remiinder ée the’ time— exactly twenty-five minuted by the clock In the room—was devoted to @ general talk spoyt the, Gary sytem, the transit gystera, the Queens Cross Ray, Bovlevard, the Hylan buses, Vermouth (once again) -and thihgs in general. Nary & word about that $361,000,000-bu Mayor Ifytan, Appéarince Indicated the great strain he has been whose Pore eae case ie = ‘3} drew a pistol and lit him over the 43 considerable ‘app 3 nei 7 : tucted to edify the young high school] 284 with {t. Woodwork in the 1s with a second dissertation on|apartment and the furniture were but he warnlag trafic, er 8 rmouth. and .liqu suddenly halted “Sh-h-h."* “1 wonder if.there is a family en- trance to Schieffelin & Co.?"" asked the Mayor, erpiling broadly at the-elyeling high school girls. He flaunted a pam- phiet as he spoke. “I you can tell me where I can get some Vermouth," sald Stewart Browne, “I'd appreciate it, I have a sore throat." Browne illustrated with r cough: ’ when the Mayor emiled and sleome, ladles,” to tho little Stewart Browne surveyed the group of high school pupils in eur- pris? and, turning to the Mayor, cor- ected: “You mean Sappers, don't spattered with blood from Sartoris's wounds. Sartoris got. the pistol from Mc- Cort and, running to the window, smashed the, glass with the weapon and called for help. He grabbed Mc- Cort again but the man broke away and ran down stairs. On the floor above Harry 6lern, (Continued on Eighth Page.) a CAUGHT IN DRY RAID, HE PROVES TO BE STAR GOVERNMENT GUM-SHOER Otto Helbtng Played Port So Well for United States ie Fook d Even the City Cops. Qtto, Helbing, twenty-slx, No. S14 East Tremont, Avenue, the Bronx, ar- ralgned inthe Court of Bpectal tesstona to-day on a charge of having heroin in hist Bosserston, turnéd out to’be a eral invéstigator in the employ United States District Attorney Hay Phat’s out.-of order,’* eried the Mayor, now thoroughly shocked. Dig- cussing mixed drinks might be a harmless pastime at @ gathering ot children, but the word: flapper, wag, taboo.. The Mayor blushed pajgfutly| at the very thought of ft. st Sd ‘After-he had greeted the: gtrim the ot (Continued on Eighth Page.) bis a WILL ASK U. S. TO SIT - watd, The disclosure was more or leas EA EE flabbergacting to Detective Moffett of IN TURK PEACE MEETING}... Narcotic Squad, who urroated Helbing two weeks ago in a house fre- quented by drug addicts, near 116th Street and Third Avenue. According. to Moffett Helbing became PARIS, Oct. 26 (Associated Press). —rance, Italy and Great Britain|confidential with a nuinber of known drug addicts .and was suspected of have agreed to invite the United] scing a deug peddler. When taken in a raid heroin was found in his pocket Distrlct Attorney Banton appeared {1 coyrt with a letter from Col, Hayward and ssked that Helbing-be discharge. Ke te said to have been of great sesiet- {n landing dealers in nare and to have Mshed the jence which led recently to the ment of one of the most dangerous wholesale peddiers in the clty. Telbing discharged and@ went to the Fed- Building to testify before the Grand Jury. States to participate officially in the Near East Peace Conference at Lap- ranne, Switzerland, Noy. 18. The suggestion to ask the United States to participate oMctally camo trom Lord Curzon, the British Secre- tary for Foreign Affaire. The invita. tion will be handed to the State De- partment In Washington probably to~ morrow by the French, British and Italian Embassies. FULL STORY OF EYE-WITNESS — ~ NAMES “HENRY” HALL SLAYER ‘We KnowWhere to Look for Proo Mule in Darkness, Mrs. Gibson First * Mott Says of Eye-Witness Story; | S°% Principals and Two Autos in Light ‘ From Passing Car, Then Woman in Gray Second Auto Owner Known toHim) — Ctoak in Torch Glow—Heard Row and Shots. Prosecutor Declares He Believes Mrs. Gibson Told Truth and Will Act as Soon as All Evidence Has Been Sifted. (Special From Staff Correspondents of The Evening World.) NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., Oct. 2 Gibson about ber prescuce at the murder of the Rev. Mr. Farmer Widow Unable to Distinguish What ‘ Angry Voices Said in “Terrible Quarrel,” but Has Since Recognized “Stocky Man With a Bushy Mustache and Eyebrows.” —In the statement of Mrs, Jane Hall and Mrs. Mills, she said sbe saw a second automobile parked in tho bushes at the foot of De Russey Laue, near that agalust which “Henry” and “the women _ (Special From a Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., Oct. 26—The affidavit made by Mrs. Jane Gibson, the former circus rider and now a pig rancher, describing the murder of the Rev. Edward Wheeler ‘Hall and. Mrs Lleanor Reinhardt Mills, has been exhibited to a representative of iu the gray cloak” wore crouching just before the murder The tremendous Special Pro: automobiles signtfican to utor Mott of rked out, 1s that the two persons who went into the farm prepered to commit murder would never have leit car near a car of persons not te them; they would not have risked encountering strangers, the Prose- cutor assumes. And he knows whemsthe other car belonged; knows to his own satisfaction, not by edmission of tho rode in it. ‘This phase of the case becanie so In teresting to-day that Mr. Mott coun- termanded his orders to State ers, county detectives and his o’ man, Lieut. Mason, to bring in evory- body whose name had been mentioned in the case from the beginning. Mr. Mott talked with frankness to day of the progress of the case ‘That is something 1 he sald, asked whether he had obtained new evidence within the last forty-eight hours. ‘Hut I c: say that I regard Mrs, Gibson « credible witness story. It ia s question of judgment as to whether to make an arrest im- walt until 1 When we MRS. HALL’S LAWYER REFUSES TO COMMENT ON EYE-WITNESS STORY On Way to New Bronswick and May known é Te There, Timothy Vieifer, attorney for Mre. Hull, was silent to-day when avked to comment upon the iatest develop- menty in the Hall murder. myetery, and the statement of Mrs, Jane Glb- fan, reputed jonlgye ce slaying. “Haye you teed the motning pa- pers?” he waé asked at lils home, No. 29 Washington Square. “Yes,” he replied. a] "Dd you caro ty make ment tn behalf of Mrs. Hal “ft have nothing to say “Are you going toyNew Brunswick day?” 1am going there this.m may have I get thei nothing to together, lights The Evening World, It tells as clear a story of the killing as though it had been enacted in front of a moving picture camera and leaves no doubt of the identity of the person who did the lovers to death and of the woman who accompanied him. Tho narrative differs in detail from the sketeby account of the con- tents of the afidavit related to The Evening World hergtofore by persons who have bad hasty accoss to tt—but in the main it bears out the vita’ features of that accounts es wie il The new @ thelr to he hut man whe Yess to the ee. closures from a reading of the affidavit are these: Mra, Gibson saw the murderer and hig'woman companion béfore the murders in the full glow of an automobile at a distance of not more than ton feet. troop- stute- She knew the woman by sight and by name. She saw them strike across the fleld from Be Russey lave into tho Phillips farm in a direction which would take them to the knoll on whieh the bodies of Mr. Hall and Mrs, Mills were found under a crabapple tree. By the Deadlight of the same automobile, she saw a second car parked beside the flrot, dark and empty—and tho prosecutors believe it was the var of the letter stealing, eavesdropping, spying Ingo who piloted the woman fn gray and her murderous companton to the lovers under the crab apple tree. SEEN IN GLOW OF ELECTRIC FLASH LAMP. \ moment later she snw the glow of an electric flash lamp on the knoll, sixty feet trom the road in which she had stopped to Usten out * of curlosity as to what was golug on. By the light of that flash lamp, she recognized the gray cloak of the woman she bed seen walking into the fleld a few minutes before. cannot an- swer, when amstr and I believe ler downstalrs Mrs. June eye-witne and Rulph V M. Goraline, the vestryman who has told of going toward tho scene of the murder st about the timo it happened but who says he turned back before reaching Buccleuch Park Still another to be summoned will be Mrs. Addison Clarke, worker to whom Mrs. slighting referonces in be the rector, saying Minnie “gativfied with the crumbs fection. But not been forthcomiing guesses of the count the mediately. I prefer to have the case clinched. we shall act not on one plece of evi- dence but on all the evidence."’ “Why has nothing been done {n the thirteen days which have elapsed since Mra, Gibson first store to her story?” he was asked. “TL do not know," sald Mr. Mott. “Ta 4t. true, Mr. Mott, State Is up a tree and docs whero Mrs. Gibson's evidence? “It is not true,”’ grimly, "We know where to look,’ Then Mr. Mott sent out available force of investigators, State troopers, the county detectives of Somerset and Middlesex and his own m of the Es- to act, She heard voices in viola quarrel, the church Mille made letters to ad to be of his, af- She saw the flash of a clot and heard the report. She heard « woman’s yolco in an ny of horror and remorse scream: Oh—~Henry! Please——please ——please!” 820 beard four more shots. And then, dazed In horror, in fright as to what would happen to hei Involved personal fortunes If members of the influential family of whicn the actors in the tragedy were.members knew she bad witnessed thet: crime, “she put her deela to her Jenny mule and went on home.” Not In aMfidayit form yet, but on the records that have been turned over to Special Prosecutor Wilbur A. Mott, is the statement of Mrs. Gibson first published in The Evening World yesterday at noon that she has since seen and recognised the man who accompanied the woman In the gtay coat and who was presumably etill with her when the murderous shots were fired under the crabapple tree—and fired them. REASONS FOR SILENCE DISPEL DOUBTS. ‘The reasons of Mrs, Gibson keeping her secret until two weeks ago are not embodied in the affidavit, but are of a nature to dispel every doubt whica may bave been rafged by her silence, ag will be shown. Mrs. Gibson, in the afMdavit, fixes the time of the murders at a little after nine o'clock—as long as it would take her to saddle the Jenny mule, rido it slowly a querter of a mile down De Russey Lane to Easton Avenue and back up the lane a bundred yards to a point opposite the crabapple tree. The time is fixed by the passing of the Millstone omnibus on Hamilton Avenue on which her farm fronts and {s verified by her memory of the man who happened to be chauffeur of the bus that night. on the bus on that trip has been verified. that the } ns tom of proof net know yet has an atom of pr of the detectives that automobile to follow the of to look for corroboration of persons in the went ahead as rector and Mrs, Mills to the crab: apple. tree and then by ag:eement went to the foot of the lane to meet to other sald Mr. Mott spies his whole the man and confront then. The statement of {dents on Landing road who raw not one but two cars dash past them late in the evening from the ¢ of the Phillipa farm and toward New Bruns- wick at top speed te ate Mrs. Gibson's sc Tt is also borne out by whispered gossip wit the mombership of the Church of John the Evangelist th member of the congre the farm that night know there was to bo a clash between the rector and a person who wes to accuse him of being led astray from luis and church by Mrs to glout oven the discomfture of Mra, ad rejected b Hail, ¥ woman who were man, Lieut. James Mas sex County detectlv every person who is belic anything of the m Mr. spent yesterday Newark office reading over the aM- davits whieh have been collected, the written reports of detectives and get- ting comment on them from Mason. The Ust of those e him ‘included Mrs wealthy widew of tor; her brothers, Layalette, bring tn ed to know rection 8 to corrobor- murders. at his Mott t t a certain ion went to to be called Frances W the murdered Henry Ste retired small arme ex and Wi the subnormal fireman and frequenter of th ° Brunswick Hungeri He w Others to be sum wed were s eccord Mills, janitor of the church and of the Lord Sterling High School, through Mr. Hall's influence; Charlotte Mills, his sixteen-year-old daughter; Edwin family Mills; he hoped His presence a advances ed by hor. ‘The time coincides closely with that * au nt to lau to valps, and rar upon a erivty double murder, and hia retin to New Mrunswick was 60 fust that even the car of the fleeing mur- derer could not catch him. ta family snarl,| fixed by Norman R. Tingle, a neigh- falling of @ shooting star on which they had commented could not mean there waa a tragedy impending. The story of the affidavit may well be prefaced by, the informal state- bor and his wife, who sa! farmer, they heard sh and Mrs, Tingle, hearing them, reproved her husband for laughing at her for saying the FASCINATING _ the. SE PAUL and MYSTI FYING

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