The evening world. Newspaper, December 21, 1922, Page 4

} { { } With Attack on A woman telephoned the police last Might that a burglar was trying to get into an apartment at No. 67 West 65th Street. Detectives O'Connor and Ferguson went to the house in a de- partment car. ‘They say they found Sinclair oa the second floor, apparently leaving the house. He ts tall, bandsome and was 80 well dressed and calm that the de- tectives were puazled how to proceed. In reply to a question who he was he told them, they say, that he lived at No. 328 Weat $6th Street, and that his wife, Henrietta Sinclair, was an actress. His indignation appeared to be so genuine that the detectives were bout to let him go when they saw something protruding from his over- coat pocket. They say it was a screw~- @river that bad been made into a “jimmy. ‘They investigated in the house, and gay thero were marks such us the screwdriver-might have made on tho door of Miss Caroline Heberlin's ent. So they took Sinclair to the station for investigation. It was then that Dr. Henry Moeller of No. 341 West 57th Street, who was essauited and robbed In his office last Sunday night by a robber who entered fm the guise of a patient, was called. Dr. Moeller told the police that before ihe was attacked he tested the 4 3 _ eS ee ea 88 ~ Heart Murmur Connects Prisoner |: Aged Physician; He Is Held as ‘Studio Burglar’ + Stethoscope Used on “Patient” by Dr. Moeller Fastens} rem: Another Charge on Man Who Says He’s Well Known Actor. Partly identified through a peculiar heart murmur as the robber who beat Dr. Henry Moeller, a man wescribing himeelt as Howard Stnolair, thirty, | neham in Jefferson Market Court in an actor with membership in the Lambs, Friars and Actors’ Equity, 18 al 6) jog jai) for examination Dec. 29, |’ Prisoner to-day, suspected of peing the “studio burgiar” of the west side.| yoore suid he formerly was“a moXon aan rceenemecneintcenenenannananeeininnnmeeen THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1922. s Well Rn: but his description does not tally with that of the prisoner calling him- self Sinclatr. HURT IN LEAP FLEEING FROM MAN, SHE SAYS Her Skolt Fractored in Jamp From Cab-Her Parsaer Held. fous assault an a e of the skull re- von, thirty-one years Charged with fe esived by M old, of No Weat 19th Street, when, it ix alleged, she was trying to get away from the defendant, Robert Moore, thirty-one, of No, 42 West 22d Street wWaas to-day held by Magistrate Froth- “| picture actor. man’s heart with a stethoscope and detected a peculiar murmur, and that he belleved he could make an identi- fication through a similar test. The doctor was accompanied to the station house by his son, Henry Moel- ler jr., also a physician. The son ap- piled the stethoscope to Sinclair and sald he found the peculiar throb ag described by his father. But to make It more certain, Misses Anita and Marie Moeller, the doctor's daughters, who saw the robber in their father’s office, were called and, according to the police, sald Sinclair was the man. Sinclair dented the charge, and said he could prove that at the time of the robbery he was at home with his wife and several guests, whose names he gave. He also de- nied trying to get Into Miss Heberiein's apartment. .He said he came to New York {rom Galveston. The police say they found In his apartment later ten pawntickets for watches and other valuables. and an assortment of sil verware, cheap rings and necklaces. There has been a series of mystert- ous robberies recently in studios tn the district covered by the West 47th Street Station, and the police have been referring to the person as the “studio burglar." Pearl White, the movie star, was among those robbed. Inquiry at the Lambs, Friars and Equity indicated there is a Howard] ness . According to Detective Edward Doyle Moore at 1 A. M. on Sept. 16 at 2tat Street and Eighth Avenue tried to get Misa Caven to walk with him. She re- sixted his attentions and jumped into a cab, Moore tried to follow by Jump- ing over the back of the cab, Miss Caven Jumped out again, falling on her head. ‘She was in a hospital for three weeks. orn te theatrteat peo-1 NO BURIAL FUND NEEDED | MT. HOLYOKE DORMITORY FOR CHARLIE HEMPHILL BECAUSE HE |SN’T DEAD Namesake of Old Ball Player Died, and Mixap Resulted. Former officints of the New York American Bastball Club to-day aban doned plans to raise a burial fund for Charlie Hemphill, former Yankee «tar when they learned that he was not de BURNS; GIKLS IN CHAPEL mcked for Xmas Trips ut Tranks Are Lost, SOUTH HADLEY, Mass., Dec, 21. _-Pire of unknown origin which broke out in the basement of Rockefeller Hall, a dormitory of Mount Holyake « », at 8.80 this morning, spread vite the efforts of fire fighters, and building will probably be totally Snitenm on Tuesday never played bascball. i destroyed was sald by a sister of the dead man, y ho live in the “ The ninety girls w Mre. W. A.-MeKnight of Jersey City,| 4 :mitory wore in chapel when the fire was discovered. They succeeded ‘n Wide ibileat! ne Pienth of the old tikvee uni] in saving belongings packed In mult- upposed death of the old player and Pre-holiday “Specials” include Mtemplated raising of a fund re-| cases ready for their departure for in an investigation which re-] the Christmas holidays, but a num- ed the mistaken Identity arising) jer of packed trunks, stored in the ‘rom the similarity of names, basement, were lost. Low water Seon st a e fighters. SHOR FAC re hampered the fire fig! RY DESTROYED ny] ! FIRE: LOSS $100,000, The factory of the A. & M. Shoe Company, Inc., at Newton, N. J., destroyed by Firemen we on the $100,000. 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