The evening world. Newspaper, November 16, 1922, Page 10

eS ae _THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1922, WITH GUNS friend, They decided to wateh him —_ and soon saw him drive into a barn at No. 61 Kouenhoven Court. They peeked in and then broke in. There were three automobiles inside, six men, one 100-gallom, still im operation and a 200-gallon one not working. Tn addition to Mantno, who gars his address as No, 81 Woodhull Street, there were Johm Lopez and Aaron Berry of No. 1269 Sist Street, Charles Mastride, who lives in the premises, George Larsen of No. 270 49th Street, and Zito Geralmano of been used for the manufacture of beer, _~ There were five five-gallon cans con- taing whiskey and fifteen cans of the game size containing alcohol. Mis- tride, who lives where the stills were found, is sald by the police to be the distiller and brewer and the others are said to be distributers. They were held by Magistrate Gels- mar in Flatbush Court in $1,000 dail for examination on Nov. 21. KL Go ‘ . WWSTANAHERD DEMAND RELEASE [COP “OFFERING HR HELD BY CHEE, WROD BARK ig Known for Our Low Prices === Bloomingdale's 59TH TO OOTH STREET—LEXINGTON TO THIRD AVENUE Three Autos and Big Stills Figure in Raid in Kouen- U. S. and Four Other Nations Tell Peking Surrender by Robert Rankin, Six - Footer, Amused at Frail Wom- nd 4 ‘ ee * i hoven Court. - No, 9 Amity Street, When the po-| wakes Paxore 17 an’s Recital, Bandits Must Be Enforced. lice with drawn revolvers entered the] end Golf Cluba ry | c. the six men submitted to ar- Rubbed on leether prevents Robert Rankin, noted electrical en-| PEKING, Nov. 16 (Associated) Police Sergeant Cashman and Pa-| Pitt Ti) Th Co" SO MGE to Oe) SL steals - ince and ono of the heroes in the | Press).—Measures for the tmmediate| ‘Tolman Noonan of the Vanderveer to the Vanbaevbell Seek Dot freee before. Park station, Brooklyn, saw Joseph | taken to ae Rant he Few Ded sinking of the Lusitania, sat in Jus-|release of the foreign missionaries aah 4 2 Dh | station. Rething inyurtows. honing. ney tee Nowburger’s part of Supreme | kidnapped by Chinese bandits in Ho-| Marino driving an automobile arou! be inane stg hike Court to-day and seemed 16 enjoy} nan wore demanded of the Peking| ‘he neighborhood of Kouenhoven| In addition to the two atiits\there| At Drag Hardwered Sport Shops 23} wero elght copper boilers of fifty- gallons’ capacity. The police are of the opinion that these were to have Court a little before daylight to-day. They, questioned him and he said he was waiting for @ young woman ‘with combined amusement and amaze- ment his wife's minutely described Government to-day. Tho American, British, Italia, story of hiw he beat her unmercifully in thelr apartment at No, 420 River- side Drive in July of tast yonr, Ran- kin is = towering athlete of more than six feet, while his wife, who was Enid Duryea, profinent in New York and Philadelphia society, is ‘freil. "He choked me, struck me with his fist, slapped my face, threw me @round the room and beat me un- Mercifully,"’ sobbed Mrs. Rankin in reply to the questioning of her hus- lawyer, Col. William Rand. = ha, hat" buret forth Rankin im an uncontrollable fit of merriment, ‘as he threw both arms into the afr in apparent amusement at the tale of oruelty, while Justice Newburger gave him an admonishing look. “And did he do anything else?” Bsked Colonel Rand. “Yes, he kicked me,"’ declared the Witness, as her powerful husband Jeaned forward in his chair, all smiles, and a stare of amazement as he tried to get ler to look at him. The Rankins have brought suits Secnes Sack of fifty-two valnable vases, jades, efiks and curios collected by them during their seven Yeats residence in Pekin, China, wheie Rankin was stationed with an American engineering firm. Rankin was ordered back to the United States in 1921, preceding his ‘wife, who had the collection of Chi- nese valuables and household goods shipped back hene in her own namo and stored with the Manhattan Stor- a@ge and Warehouse Company. Upon her arrival here Mrs. Rankin fold ter husband at the Biltmore Hotel that she had decided to sep- arate from him, but agreed to live with bim as “wife in name only,” at ‘his request, pending the outcome of a ‘business transaction. ~ Im consideration of this agreement, ‘Mre, Rankin claimed that/her hus- ‘baud gave her a written agreement Yeleasing all claim to the fifty-two ‘cases of Valuables. It was during the MM treatment she alleged she received in the Riverside Drive apartment that ‘Mrs, Rankin claimd she finally was beaten into submission and turned over the agreement to her husband, who, she said, tore it up and threw it out the window. : Rankin denied that.the ever had enfered into any such compact. When he found that ho could not get pos- session of the valuables in the ware- house, he secured an attachment against them and then both appealed to the Supreme Court for a decision as to the rightful owner. On the stand Rankin denied in every detail his wife's story of the beating. “T signed her written agreement to live with -her, but not as man and wife, and there was yo discussion or mention in this paper ‘of the shipment of ‘good’, from China,” Rankin as- ‘Perted. ~Asked by Col Rand ubout the re- teption he received from his wife on her return from China, Rankin sald: “T tried to embrace her, but she repulsed me” “Did she strike you?'’ asked Colonel “Well, we'll just let it go at re- French and Swedish Ministers, act- ing under instructions of their Gov- ernments, made the demand. The Ministers, presenting a foint note, Informed Chinese Republic executives that the retention of the missionaries In captivity would not be| fi tolerated. The powers, it waa said, ‘would be compelled to act drastically | unless tho missionaries wero released | f and guarantees given for the future safety of the hundreds of other mis- sionaries in China. ‘The note, couched in vigorous Ian- guage, declared that the missionaries were carrying on their work under treaties which had been violated by/|q the abductors. It is understood that Washington instructed Jacob Gould Schurman, the] gj American Minister, to impress upon Kc China the seriousness of the bandits’ captives, but joined the other Min-| @ inst! G isters. in @ general complaint interference with the treaty missionaries. Besides the Americans, the captives now include one Greek, one French citizen, one British subject, ono Swediah and one Italian, The Italian its of hostage was identified es Father|f Crimaldi, captured in Anhwei Prov-| & ince and taken into Honan Province, where about 1,000 outlaws have been holding a large area. The others are} ff all detained in Honan. The bandits seized the missionaries to foros the Peking Government to in-| {fj corporate the bandits in the regular army. Most of them are dismissed| i soldiers who want reinstatement, Peking probably will be forced to ac-| & cede to their demands to satisfy the] } powers. CER 8 “aS HIT BY AUTOMOBILE, ~ WINS $10,000 DAMAGES] Had Evaded Trolley Only to Be Knocked Down by Car. David S. Knapp, stxty-eight years old, an employee of Loeser’s department store in Brooklyn, was awarded a yer- dict of $10,000 by a juty before Supreme Court Justice Callaghan in Brooklyn to-day for injuries received when he] @ was struck by an automobile owned by| Michnoft Brothers, Brooklyn pho! raphers, Knapp was crossing Bond Street at Smith Street*and had stepped to one side to permit a trolley car to pass when he was hit. 1 pulsed,” smiled the witness. told me she would not live with me," he continued. reconsider. She said she wanted the furniture and some money and talked of divorce, hut I told her she could not get one as she had no grounds.""|§ Rankin met the pertty Philadelphia soclety girl on steamship while en route to South America in 1910. They | & Alp were married the following year. child was born to them in China in 1918, but died two years later. sity and has become noted in South America and the Orient for many on- | gineering feats he has performed. He now is engaged on a project in New| Mexico. s aera @i ‘A-POUND PROFIT = =a Pasee rane For Friday and Saturday, Nov. 17 & 18 CHOCOL CHOCOLATE COVERED CREOLE All The PEPPERMINT PATTIES Three Elsewhere , PounD Net 49C ASSORTED P ‘ounds GLOSS GOODIES POUND NET for BRIARCLIFF MILK FRESH PINEAPPLE i ATE TCT Wie Tey Last ly Extra Special: EXTRA! Two Pounds of Loft COCOA Selling Regularly at 19¢ Lb. 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