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

IN GEM ROBBERY NOW FIVE RINGS Reported Theft Came Just Before Departure on Concert Tour. Police Believe Mrs. Jessica Tumbridge’s Valuables May Be Only Missing. * The reported robbery photographie studio of Ira D. West 48th Street, of jewelry satd to rave been valued at $100,000, ported by Mrs. Jessica L. Tumbritge. widow of the for George Hotel in Brooklyn and a con- cert singer under the name of to-day dwindled nissing in the home of the singer of five rings, the ig valued by her at $4,090, AS a consequence, West 47th Street Station have passed r investigation ind the photographer, his clerk « ® maid employed by been placed report, have been completely exoner- as re- owner of tho St f whien case; lance of the the driver who took her home after she tures taken in the In her first story to tho police irs. ‘fumbridge she had lost her jewelry in Asked what “L wouldn't take then explained of ff was from the collection Tom Thumb, which had xen sented to the midget by pelieved | But tf © @top to rest 1 w studio. | — Berr 000 fy | began to arrive f some yee of the Poliee swooped down upon the on itograpnic studio and questioned all this morning Mrs Tumpridg . but recol- i@velry when she 0. 243 East 72d tioat, Police of the Eust 67th Street Sta- whose precinct took up the investigation to-day learned that the missing Jewelry ated. A young resides, was highly exagger- whose tdentity accompanied singer and answered all questions for her, He was authority for the in- Mrs, Tumbridge Mrs. Tumbridge has been a widow since May, 1921, when Capt, Tumbridge dled from injuries received | jjnor Origabi, when a tree fell Street, Hancock the second wife 1918 when be was sixty-nine and she not half his .age. George property was sold last week by the Tumbridge estate for a price re- ported to be DEATH THREAT BY WIFE ALLEGED BY DENTIST Imitate heard arguments and ac who lives Sh Physicians Insist Few Days’ Vacation Necess: Life of Ease. PARIS, Dec. My son insists that I take a rest—bul ! means death.” Tho immortal Sarah Bernhardf, stricken as she was about to appe Suspects EXONERATED}] sacha Guitry's now play at the Edward VII. Jheatre, thus entreaties of friends that she abandon the stage and spend the yea left her in ease and comfort. A bulletin issued this afternoon dy o> Madame Bernhardt's physicians said: ately ani rapidly terminated. It exact The crisis has fort how= ver, absolute repose for some da with complete isolation."* “There is really no danger," Dr. Desnos later ured the United Press. “Mme. Bernhardt will tlvs tof’ atten] my funeral yet." Tho one very real perl!, however, tt is admitted, is Bernhard’t refusal to surrender and conc eds h woman, despite iW elf an, old enty-elght a lam going to return to tho stage # s00n as I have recovered from this slight {ndisposition,"* she insisted to the] frlends who urged her to give up. Her manner was vigorous, and she remained bright and cheery In defi- ady, diagnosed by neope—fainting fol- physic lowed oy stup “In the mornin; seribing her well. Then sald, In de- "L felt perfectly suddenty I felt as if a had been thrust into my back My whole body was like Ice. I was able to call for help, but I don't know what happened afterward. “T don't want to dle like Mollere,” he insisted. ‘f am all right now t ardt was taken ill in 9. | dressing room, Just before the ¢ the productio fainting spells, which ar iods ‘of stupor. It Is or “Un Sujet de & if Mra, |@ssembled in front of the dark tore the patient to } atre and many rumors that the speed when she is str 83 was at the point of wise death may ensue. through the assemblage. Mme. Bernhardt to-da people dixpersed stowly after the ) me to her friend: huuncement was made that her |i America: © was not considered serious. “Don't worry about me Bernhardt was able to go home In jon her car, but suffered a relapse imme |of my cannot ayoil 1 diately upon reaching there. Ber ail- | resume my work on the ment anifests itself in a series of Jin to-night’s Perrone r he or recon ee / SNaKes 20 Feet Leng in Hold Of Ship That Had Just Lut Cuba planning a grand opera and concert |Skipper, Suspicious at First, but They Were Real Snakes—Dry Agents Get Scare of 'fheir Lives. William} The 114 passenger of the Ward the is THE EVENING WORLD. “LIAR,” SAYS L T0 POLICEMAN SINGER'S LOSSES (Bernhardt, Stricken at Theatre, Refuses Pleas to Abandon Stage, Saying, ‘Rest for Me Means Death’ 78-Year-Old Immortal Will \Not Surrender to Patrolmen and Different | ° the conditions in the family either < oem About Bribe. Witnesses Police Commissioner] holiday pleasures. Patrotmen]| No pains have been spared by the and Waiter, A.J members of the Board of Child Wel- Kath Reach Precinct ouklyn Headquarters to-day, ment} well Known merchant, who with ae sppeared to be falr enough in the light] ‘hree children Is spending the winter Ile passed the Commi Selfried and Askiund were accused] mother failing to make} for arrest for illegal transportation offwarm to wear, something dainty anc and accepting a bribe. Inspector,] present, indeed, that will delight any at 7.80 o'clock | cMfid. Martorello, an] Besides this splendid pleceyof work held up at Harwe Creek us| treat for the poor children of Miami ing two] She sent the following message to and and, Sophte Irene Loeb, President ‘of the policemen were Sergt. James| Board of Child Welfare: ted and Ask “My heart goes out to these un- Patrolman] fortunate, fatherless children and my sines| best wishes go with the gifts, 1 will Nozigiia is to be tried] ©MJoy my holiday with my own kid- nspector Kuhne ¢ barrels of wine to Coney Is! Patrolman Set Probationary Serrt. didn’t have it dered Asklund, 1 driver, to from his cousin, Louis Bruno, kept $40 and &: the three patrolmen. Asklund are © n with xood is and are took the money of those little things that persons Seifried and Asklund when own defense ‘Then ‘Tony Murtorello de jis getting “TWO STORES NEAR oven 8. Altman & Cn. Bruno on oath sald Martoreilo ear with a policeman in adicte ty from} 1 he ma, ne down backward of vana Dec. 16. ning of Dec, 17 Seconda Steward Charles Haggerty went down St. into the hold looking for someth ng. | yng met. t ney toca He He camo up through the gangways|this story. Lut they aaid the with his coattails fluttering behind] thor duty. And they did him and orted to the Captain that | fc, But they didn't find the hold 1 of snakes a ut of Cuba 3," said the Nuecrt T happened to king such} Plining 4 | disquietin, h{ minutes 7 pper, tu] The man is right ty for a reports, [n There are twa of detaclment of o twenty-foc y had leaked ont Danie 7 ! sped to Havana! ies Ch on the southbound trip of the Orizaba nd I ' tJ. Br Yesterday noon Haggerty burst into |,.;, eter dy thie office n : r nother one down there," 4! Bre ween kipper called in the purser and] her a f ol ~ -|pr. ¢ re | ' | ' of $1 t ' Htreot, [re s tr. J f th ‘ a k alimony 1 relations betwe nd his adopted 4 I. Robson | Mra. French al an order posted forbidding from going ul splrit of mis = WIFE NAMES GR BROUGHT AGAST| = , about ein | t pleaged to secrecy by them } ison was back, i Zourt cial eient Giant Manager| 98 the upper toor of the building | he gasped, ‘it 1s true! ig 4 Chine taurant keeps open un- [Not Responsible tor Chauf-] 1 9 oF r Running Down \Voman]'t 's arated atter | rivcea| | Jest im time for these colder days, and in xd season for Holiday Gifts rod {Lr. Charles Fon After 10-Year Separation, return from Ba for Mrs Prene! ents for a few d Ka TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1922. (Mrs. Gimbel’s Christmas Treat N ! Will Gladden 1,000 Child Hearts Wife of New York Merchant, Now in} Florida, will Send a Thousand Xmas Boxes to Welfare Board. Christmas treat to take p' Hutlding, No, 145 Worth Street thousand gbildreh who, because ———— through {tiness of the widowod nother or some such distress, would not Hkely enjoy Christmas cheer, are not to be disappointed In getting thelr fare to bring joy to the hearts of just nich children in this undertaking Mrs. Bernard I, Gimbel, wite of the n Miami, + hearing of the etforts elng made by the Child Welfare Board to ald these fatherless children, 8 proved a veritable fairy god nd will send a box of thing: h child. containing “something ree- something od''—a worth -whilr Mra. ¢ nber is paring a s milar es with a nruch better heart know ing that I t 8 of these de- ‘i No. | Pendent wee ones, the | {9 et behind the children at any and] children,"* money. 4 22 thm the future citizens of the] ‘There will be music furnished the | Nation—and certainly the Christmas} the boys of the Hebrew Orphan uy- Period ts the one In which they are/ium Hand, Other features of thr pro- abek to Coney Island Cre 0 dircetly concerned.” gram will be announced tater handed it to Two huge Christmas trees are being| w decorated for the oecasion und a te- ghtful program hus been prepared Among the features arranged for ihe pleasure of the children will be a ve markabi¢ ratus imported from ying the educated ne family, to hp munipulated Signor Demont, assisted by sig na Leonetta. r Welfare are dept: De Willian Mary A, F ‘ourtney, Mr ne William © next day at the Board of ¢ ve contributed in any] TRS BERNARD GIMBEL $100, | “ay to the happine © better work can be done than} "The best is none too good for Tne members of the Board of Chiid ophie [rene Loeb, I. Strovich, William A Conrad Engel. Mrs. Mathias Figuetra John D. Rosenbrock, Mes. “® Tsmith ond Mrs. lames Whitford. (BOOTLEG RIVALS [MAX SPIEGEL FALS STAGE GUN FIGHTS} IN StiOW BUSINESS TWICE IN NIGHT) FOR $1,000,000 — > One Man Shot, Crowds Scat- ter as Battling Shakes “Curb Market.” Two successive plrtol battles at Grand and Mott Streets last night were attributed by the police to the bitter competition of the Bootleggera’ Curb Market which has flouriahed there for three years The first fight started a little after 19 ofele ie when five men lined up on the curb of Mott Street and began fing at a group on the other side of the xtreet, Charles Palmer of No 2106 Bath Avenue, Brooklyn, fell to the sidewalk, Police alarms brought automobile ‘patrols. from Police Headquarters, two blocks away. Deputy Chief tn spector Dominick Henry, bandire over Palmer, was startled by a new volley fired Into a band which had gathered to watch his removal into an ambulance from St. Vincent's Hos pital, Detectives chased the crowd from which the shots came and caught Jo- seph and James Ballentino of No, 8159 New Utrecht Avenue, Brpoktyn. They were taken to the hospital to the bed- side of Palmer, who shook hands with them heartily, sald th: friends’* and that they could not hav had anything to do with the shooting. They were locked up none the less. The surgeons of St. Vincent's said almer was unlikely to live out the day, Tho Ballentinos have been tn trouble with the police before, accord ing to the records, Joseph has been charged with robbery and homicide snd James with homicide, though they were discharged for lack of evi- dence. §, last, at & o'clock in the afternoon, there was a battle on the Producer, in Sanitarium, Ha $300,000 Assets, Creditors Say in Bankruptcy Suit. Involuntary proceedings in bank- ruptey were instituted to-day by eredi- tors of Max Spiegel, tehatrical pro- ducer and theatre owner, who was committed to a sanitorlum in Btam ford, Conn wee kago by his rela- ound that his bueiners . mental collaper. tives on the gr troubles had caured The petitioners in (o-day's pro seedings in the United States Distriet ‘ourt were Moses ¢ Rosenbaur with claims of $20.000; Edwin Monet, *8.000, and Charles Mohr, $2,223. [1 attorney fof the creditors, Edwin torburg, stated that Spidgel's Jabilt - ties amounted to more than $1,000,00) ed to be ind that his assets app vbout $300,000. Sol Brill and Edward Hymes were s by Judge Magk \holnted _recel 5,000 each inder a bond! of $ same corner in which Hildio Tagit- angnde was killed and six invocent bystanders were wounded, It was re ported t he had gone to the spot to U' Joseph Massiere, who was well Known in the neighborhood. Aug. several persons, who were unlucky enough to be in the vicinity of Massiere at Fifth Street ant pcond Avenue, were hit by bullets xt across the street by a band of six men, Aug. 11, while Masslero was standing at 12th Street and ond Avenue, a band of men ap- d behind him and opened fire on 4 group at the opposite corner, kill ng Umberto Ballenti and wounding Agnes Eblinger, a little girl, and Jo~ seph Schapis, a street cleaner, The police say Masslere was in the neighborhood last night. recon ition oat URSUe feat ureretoncther mabe LAUT ie f the Christmas] May with some other mystifying were iat securcd through the efforts of How dini, and it is not unlikely that this called! creat king of mystifiers, according to atly | his own words, ‘will not be able to fe cert] resis: the call of such a thous:nd, * ise | and may come himself. } tneked Selfred As one of the members remarked: stood a «| BY SAFE BLOWERS For to-morrow (Wednesday) Drug and Cigar Shops Looted of $1,200 in Cash, Presumably by Same Gang. some time Another Special Offering of e pike Men’s Brushed Wool Mufflers the cell the eleva- und y y about in cash and merchandise believed | af the stoi ut he hud been ning, and i are made of fi e obtaimed im camel, oxford, (l mottled and striped effects. at the remarkably low price of $1.65 irst Floor) ned worsted, green or brown ifliciently pe the entrance of nen into the pit, 9 boutole i ? f ow the t tn thits| Hi j 1 dour Ie the cetiar | | on p Lusett: st ase "| and one of the bure eat th \| ey ad bd und dropped about ten feet into a i] eatiner, 1 locked purtitio r pro per-| cured a ladder f ferate | ,-| The band then mad ‘ ty to the | ] tore and forced wa. om the mezzanine flo © rear of the store On t they? II| stond| took with them perf ret HI and other moerehand About uw ye ation | tiurant told i intil he | been ated HI yf was discovered in th \ Store at No, 103 1 which $500 in cush, $200 WH and several hundred do | t | Stock was stolen 2-9 y burglar tered from William comprising Street und foreed iron bars and an hutter on a rear window a S fron shutter on w an Suits. Jor t t | . : f ie way the!" | . VILL GHENT NE PPA Ey Ne VOY ON Atay wort Re ee elon | Men’s Winter-weight Wool Undergarments ests, Drawers (to mat best and most reliable qualities, the regular s Py ie Hladison Avenue- Fifth Avenue, New York Thirty fourth Btreet c reospiion ch) and Union Thirty-fifth Street very advan.