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NaF CAPITOL NOW SHOWING "Ruggles of Red Gap" CAPITOL: Thurs., Fri., Sac RUTH CLIFFORD in "HELL'S HOLE" _ Che Baily KINGSTON, VUNTARIO, MONDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1928. LAST EDITION. EE ---- ARTHUR BROWN IS KILLED | ed | TE ---- --- address in Minneapolis was learn in this way. = Most of Ryan's fetters are under- | [6 RED" RYAN papers to have the prisoner deport. ed. On Sunday a telegram was des- patched to Minneapolis asking the police of that city if they would A LANDSLIDE (ASQUITH 8t0od to have been sent to two wo- | i TELLS STORY Toronto, Dec. 17.--In a long-dis- | tance telephone. conversation about "Red" Ryan Detective Duncan said: "He admits robbing the bank at St. Clair and Oakwood avenues, in | Toronto. { | consent to drop their charges { against Ryan and hand him over to | the Toronto authorities. = |" It brought back he will be {ried | { on charges of robbery while armed, | | arising. out of the robbery of the | Brown Had a Failing For Wo- | Oakwood and St. Clair avenues | | branch of the Bank of Nova Scotia, ! on September 27th last, when $3.- | 006 was stolen. | Detective Duncan Interviewed, -~ KILLS FOUR NOT SPOKE Men Were Buried Alive Near| With Regard to Possible Lin Kenogami, ( Quebec. Up in New House. WHILE CALLING ON A GIRL | One of "Red" Ryan's Bandit Gang Shot By Detective in Minneapolis. Police Officer's Billet As He Started To Draw His Gun--Ad- missions By Ryan. | thur Brown, Canadian bank bandit "nd accomplice of "Red" Ryan, for vhom police have been scouring the twin citles since his escape, after a Zun fight Friday night, was shot and | instantly killed here Saturday by | Detective' Willlam Meehan. Brown went to call on a girlfriend and was standing on the porch of the houss and was on the point of ring-, ing the door be!l when Meehan, am bushed inside called: "Throw up | Your hands, Brown, I want you." Brown turned around quickly and began to draw his hand from his overcoat pocket, Meehan stated. The detective fired once, the bullet strik- ing Brown in thé heant, and he feli dead. When Brown's pockets were | searched, his hand was gripping a! gun, police said. Arthur Brown, alias Andrew Sul- livan, was semtenced to ten years by | Magistrate Denison in Toronto January 6th, 1921, for housebreak- ing and theft. He was twenty-four years old. Minneapolis, Minn., Dec. bana | | At Theatre After Fight. { The clue to Brown's movements came to the police after the arrest of a young Woman friend of the Cana- sjan desperado, when it became evi- dept that he would likely visit the girls home. | had attended a theatre Friday night with Brown, following the gun battle in which the escaped convict had led a gang of gunmen who tried to res cue Ryan, their leader. Ryan had been wounded and cap tured in the postoffice and was shot inthe shoulder. While officers were Jeaving the building with him. four of his companions walting oulside, opened fire, and in the fight that fol- lowed, a patrolman was seriously wounded and two pedestrians were shot. The woman told police she noticed when Brown called for her that his | hose had a recent wound, but she | deelared the bandit did not mentio. the shooting fracas. | Admits Toronto Hold-up. | It is alleged that "Red" Ryan has confessed that he and Arthur Brown, allas Andrew Sullivan and Thomas | Bryans and Gordon -Simpson, al ng | with whom he escaped from Porls-| mouth penitentiary, held up and rob-! bed the Bank of Nova Scotia branch at Bt. Clair and Oakwood avenues in Toronto on September 27th. Ryan, who was shot in the shoul- | der, is reported to be doing all right, { but it is understood that it will be | several days before he can be taken from the jail. Ryan is also wanted | in Detroit, St. Paul and Cleveland on | charges of robbing bauks. ---- Police Scour Cities. Every policeman and detective in the twin cities was detailed to a man- | hunt for the desperate bandits who | escaped from a trap at the Minnea-| polls postoffice after a spectacular gun battle in which their leader was wounded and captured, a policeman | P°Fles. hus disclosed little or any im. | post.where it got caught. | Was shot, probably fatally, two on- lookers were hit by stray bullets, and | thousands of curious spectators look. od on despite danger from gunfire. Patrolman Schaaf, the father of two children, is in the general hos- pital with a slim chance of living, a bullet; wound in his chest. If he | dies Ryan will be charged with mur-| der. The bullet penetrated the right lung. Schaaf was shot down as he pursued an automobile believed to have been driven by Brown. A -- Planned More Hold-Upe, Twin City police have hunted the Canadian gang led by Ryan and Brown since Monday, when Walter Duncan, chief of investigation 'of the department of Justice, of Ottawa, and R. R. Tucker, deputy warden of the Portsmouth penitentiary, On- * taro, arrived in Minneapolis. Plain' clothes detectives have been station. ! ed in every bank in the Twin City an last week. Ryan, in a statement to Chief Brunskill, Saturday, sald that the presence of detect revented = of the cuttoun Hate bank, the it Northern bank, Paul, 8nd the Purity Baking Company, 'Lyndale and Plymouth avenues; robbery of the Great Northern bank Was planned for Saturday. oS | and the bandit's pistol ¢lattered | | thousand dollars. dian officials will ask extradition. i { The capture of Ryan was the eli- | max of a carefully laid trap, know- | ing that he would cal for mall, | through information of Canadian of- | ficlals. When the bandit leader ap- | peared, Detective Marxen stepped up to get the name he gave to the mail clerk. Ryan whirled, and, with the | same motion, fired from the hip. De- tective Meehan fired simultaneously the floor. Me ran down the lobby to the money order department and tried to break through u locked door. | He then whirled and saw Detective Lally guarding the nearest exit. "Don't shoot, I'm paralyzed," he gasped. "Hold up that other hand," Lally | commanded. The detectives closed in on Ryan and shackled him, al- though he fought desperately. When | Ryan was handcuffed, he was led! on [down the corridor by Detective Marx-| mouth, en and Meehan. O---- | | Fire Volley at Brown. | Lally and Forbes ran out of the | building to join Detectives James | Levens and Mike Duffy, detailed to watch for the others. They saw a| man, they say they recognized as | Brown, from pletures brought by | Canadian officials, dart across the | i | robbing two banks single handed. l She stated that she street to an automobile standing in Ryan was serving the last term | front of the National hotel. Disre- | garding commands to halt, Brown | started the automobile at high | speed,' down Washington avenue, while the detectives riddled the ma- chine with bullets. * * * XA Detectives Lally, Marxen and Forbes commandeered another car and 'gave' chase. Other detestives, | hampered by the presence of throngs of spectators, were unable to stop the bandits car. The cars rounded | Fifth and Washington avenues, while stray bullets struck G. E. Erickson and his son, who were waiting for a | street car. | Patrolman Norman Schaaf, jump-| ing on the running board of the de- | tective car, was shot in the chest by | a bullet from the bandit car, which and fell In the street. The chase! ended at Fifth street south and Third | avenue, where Brown's head was | seen to fall on the wheel. Believing | that he had been killed, the detec- | tives ran back to help Marxen and! Forbes, who were fighting to hold | Ryan, still fighting. Instead of being dead, Brown jumped out of the automobile and disappeared in an alley. The deise. tives are certain he is badly wound- ed. Following the arrest here of "R Ryan, gunman and bank bandit, the | police have been given reason to be- | lieve that this city at the present ; moment is the stamping ground of some of the most expert bank rob- bers in' the United States and Can- ada. Ryan, while admitting several rob- Brown Disappears, ed" | portance concerning his associates, but sufficient has been learned to show that from seven to ten bandits were in the neighborhood of the postoffice when 'the Canadian was captured. It has been suggested that severai members of this outfit may if they are located, be able to throw some light on the identity of bandits who held up several bank messengers in Toronto some months ago, reliev- ing them of nearly one hundred i Detective Duncan Silent. Walter Duncan, of the dominion police force, who is here working in conjunction with the local officers on the apprehension of the bandits, de- clined to say whether he has any in- formation that may lead to the ar- rest of these latter bank messenger assallants. * The police are certain that all the bandits who were with Ryan are still in Minteapolis, every avenue of es. caps having been cut off, and they are confident that others of the gang will be almost any time. Ryan admitted his jdentity at once when he saw Duncan, and the two had a long chat, but the escaped man st: refused to answer ques- . '. . Hits Him in the Heart | week ago by Gen. Hughes, of the! | Department | | | | { Ryan through several | "Red" { with intent, 3 1 | charges robbery with violence, Occupants Jumped Out When | { Went to see her after I was caught, | instead of getting ed me others." { "Do you know who they were?' "They were the other men who | got out of Kingston." "Who, helped him?" he w | | men, He § Says. | SHED TEARS OVER. BODY Chief Duncan declared that he had |, only been assigned to the case | of Justice at Ottawa, | and had taken up the trail, tracing | states until he | ran him down in Minneapolis, | E-- f Ryan's Criminal Record, | criminal record of Norman | Ryan, arrested in Minnea- polis, Is known to the Toronto police | department as follows: | 1907---October 18th, two charges | of theft, remanded fer sentence. \ 1908--October 9th, attempted ! theft, industrial school indefinitely. | 1911--June 23rd, two charges of | theft, remanded for sentence. ! 1912+--December 3rd: First charge | burglary and theft; second charge | shopbreaking and theft; third charge | burglary and theft, three years at | Portsmouth penitentiary, concurrent | sentences. 1912--December 13th: Shooting 2 years Portsmouth, | to run concurrent with the other | sentence, 19156--June 16th: At Owen Sound; | two charges burglary, 8 years Ports { The Sth: Two | 12] Years Portsmouth penitentiary, con-| currently with previous sentences.' | 1921--December 9th: (As Albert | Slade) at Montreal, bank hold up, 71 years and 14 lashes, St. Vincent De | Paul penitentiary, 1921--December 13th: Hamilton, | twenty-five years in Portsmouth for | 1915 -- November when he escaped with Gordon Simp- son, Arthur Brown, and McMullen. He is a former part- | ner of Art Conley, now in Ports | mauth. Ryan and Conley held up | ad robbed the woman cashier of the Sterling Action und Piano Key Co., Noble street, and the Canadian Kx- press office in Parkdale. ® ~ Following his sentence in 1915, despite the fact he had a bad erim- | inal record and was facing a twelve-| year term, Ryan was released on parole to go overseas to fight. He | served in the army and on his re-| turn to Canada went back at his old trade of robbing banks. He held up| two banks single-handed 'in Hamil- ton and tried to rob a third and left | | | | { i y caplure M .i | was zig-zagging down Fifth avenue | Hamilton to be captured in Mont i real for holding up a bank there, | | BY JUST A FEW FEET Their Horse Dashed for Railway Tracks. A serious accident was only pre | { vented by a miracle on the line of! the C.N.R. on Sunday aftérnoon | when a westbound freight was ap-| proaching Rideau crossing at the usual speed. A horse and buggy | containing two occupants was ap- proaching the same crossing, and the | horse took fright and dashed for the Sroswing He was unmanageable and dashed the buggy against the bell The horse broke away and crossed the tracks Just as the locomotive came on, only escaping by a few feet. The parties in the buggy jumped out and rushed | back out of harm's way. The buggy | was cleared by the train. | Second Brother Convicted For Slaying Aged Pastor Cumberland, W. Va., Dec. 17. -- Larkin O. Garrett was Saturday found: guilty of voluntary man- slaughter and sentenced to four years' imprisonment. His brother, Robert Garrett, had previously been found guilty of sec-! ond degrees, murder and sentenced to five years. They were convicted of at Cumberland, June 5th, last, ---------- - 0909009000000 0000 > - + ARCHBISHOP FORBIDS * FOX TROT AND WALTZ, * + » x * * Montreal, Dee. 17. --~Cardi- # # val Begiii in a sensational pas- + toral yesterday forbids fox trot 4 and walts throughout the pro- # ince of Quebec, declaring that ose tions with respect to the identity of his accomplices. 1s stated | Ryan to be the fact that he persisted in ? | keeping in touch with friends in To- ronto and Hamilton by writing them letters. While Ryan is said to have who indulge ju them win * disobed : RR condemns immodest dress, non- religions social clubs, illicit. + quor dealing and + ing pictures and plays. ws tuailesseerecssrnens se {can't Thomas Ryan, |- the killing of the Rev, E. §. Pierce |- Grieves Over Death of Pal-- Had Warned Him to Shun Women. Brown a Quiet Prisoner, The penitentiary authorities, when asked about the late Arthur | Brown, stated that during the time that he had been confined to the | prison he had not given any trouble up until Sept. 10th, when he made his sensational escape. He was sen- | tenced on January 6th, 1921, to ten | years and under ordinary conditions | y le. Minneapolis Minn,, Dec. 17.--"1t he would have been granted parole Was a woman who did it," declared "Red" Ryan escaped convict Satur- At the time of his escape he had | served two years and eight months | : i of his sentence. day night in discussing his capture | (See alsot Page 14.) in Minneapolis Friday night, and the | subsequent killing of his pal Arthur Brown, alias Sullivan, by a detective on Saturday afternoon. "Brown always had a iling for women, and I. warned him against fe, I learned a lesson long ago that yoo get too friendly with women when you are wanted. They wil] turn you up every time." Ryan's remarks were directed against Irene Adams, the Min- neapolis girl who helped the police | to find Brown, yan says he is twenty-six years | smashed to matchwood at the C "up around De- | crossing, near Manotick station Sat. R old and that he grew u troit. "I grew up around Detroit," said, "and the gang 'I trained with Was not any too quiet. My principa: | business since 1921 has been trying that | year that I was sent to Kingston for | Years, to keep out of jail. It was in thirty years, and some lashes besides, I was sent there for sticking up a bank, with George MeVittie. He 1s there yet. In September last we got away, five of us. One of the gang, McMullen, was ghot. We got to Un- ited States, four of us. Brown has been with me since we came to the | United States." He told the police of his es. cape from the penitentiary at Ports. mouth, Ontario, and of going into the United States with three of the convicts. "But we went back to Can- ada for a week," he sald. "That wag when they say we held up the bank in Toronto. I am not saying whether we did npr nog We'were in the Twin cities o but did not turn a trick until about six weeks ago when we sluok up' a bank in St. Paul. We got five thous- and dollars out of that job but the most of it Is gone. now. Brown Meets a Girl. "After this stick-up, we came to Minneapolis and then went to Bos- ton. Philadelphia and some other cities. Brown had met the Adams girl before that. I met the girl the same night, but after we got to our room I told Brown to lay off: I warned him the woman would get him into trouble. We came back here 4 few days ago, planning to pull an- other job. I knew Brown had tele- phoned the girl, but "thought ne would have sense enough to keep away. Just as 1 thought, though, he away, It didn't surprise me when I heard they had him, but I was SOTrTY to hear he was dead. T would have gone that way If it would have saved his life, His Fatal Call, The police arrested Irene Adams Saturday morning. She told them she expected a teiephone message from Brown. They took her to her home and waited. Brown telephoned and asked if he could come to see Miss Adams, Speaking to him under di- { rection from the detectives, she ask- ed him to come. About one o'clock Brown came to the side door of the. house ana knocked. A detective opened the door a few inches and was fnstant!y rec- vgnized by Brown, who drew a re- volver. Meehan tired, Brown stagger- ed back a pace and sank to the floor. "You have got me," he groaned, and died. Brown had been shot through tHe heart. When Ryan saw Brown's body he gazed at his friend's features for a full minute and tears welled into his eyes. ; "That is tough isn't it." "| wish 1 was with him," he said. ' Division of Reward. . Minneapolis, Dec. 17.--A $500 re- ward for Brown's capture, offered by Canadian authorities, is expected to be presénted to Detectives Mee- han and Ryan and R. H. Tucker, deputy warden of Portsmouth peni- tentiary. who has been in Mingea. polis looking for the fugitive, identi. fied as Brown.' The. plot to capture the bandits was planned by Detective W. Dun- can and Mr. Tucker im a room at] the Hotel Radisson. ahd on, making trips east, f he | Hazel Tom | | GERMANY FOUR GIRLS KILLED WHEN MOTOR STALLS Automobile Was Hit by Ottawa to Toronto Train--Ages Ten to Sixteen. Ottawa, Dec. 17.--Folr girls were killed instantly and two boys seri- ously injured when an automobile | in which they were riding was | PR. urday afternoon. The dead are: | pking Grace, her sister, | and Doris and Bessie Tompkins, | cousins. The girls ages aggregate | between 12 and 20 years. The in-| jured are: Henry Tompkins, aged 12) and Meredith Tompkins, a Meredith was the | brother, aged 16. | Both are in a driver of the car. critical state. Invite U 8. Members To Reparation Body Paris, Dee. 17.--The Reparation | Commission has officially extended | Invitations to General Charles G.! Dawes, former director of the Ame-| rican budget, and Owen D. Young, | New'York lawyer and banker, to be | the unofficial representgtive of the | United States on the expert com-| mitteés which are to investigate | Germany's financial position. | | | | CHURCH BURNED DOWN, Priest Tried Hard to Save Host. Haverhili, Mass., Dec. 17--St. | Joseph's Church, the only French | Catholic Church in the city, was de- | stroyed by fire which broke out | shortly after three o'clock this morn- ing. Rev. Henri Perennes, pastor of | the church, made heroic efforts to | save the host on the altar and church { records but was unsuccessful. The damage: is estimated at $100,000. | The cause of the fire is unknown. ! Y WOULD BORK MONEY T0 80 FOOD The Application Before Repara- tions Commission. ! -- | Paris, Dec. 17.--Germany's feu quest that the reparation commission | agree to release its priority ciaim on | Germany's resources to an extent necessary to permit Germany to bor- | row money abroad with which to bay | needed food, was delivered to the | Yeparation cdmmission to-day by | the German war burdens' commis- | sion. The request wiil probably hel RESCUE 1 | 42 | Years, father of one child; Ge Coo i tee appointed NE 100 LATE Although Parties - Worked Feverishly to Get the En- | tombed Men Qut. | Kenogami, Que., Dec. 17. -- Al landslide which occurred on the Levesque farm at a short distance! from Price Brothers' mills here on Saturday caused the death of féur men. They were buried alive and | though rescue parties worked fever. | ishly to relieve the entombed men | they did not get through in time. The victims were: Joseph Lebel, | years, father of nine children: Adelard Tremblay, aged twenty-four orges | twenty-five years, | residing in Jonquieres: Victor Le- vesque, aged twenty years, son of the owner of the farm where the | accident happened. Levesque, aged PROTESTS ANTARCTIC GRAB, TT | Does Not Like to See Britain Annex. ing South Pole, Dec. 17.--England has and without fuss annexed Paris, quietly | the Antarctic Continent and adja- cent islands, according to the Matin, ' which protests, ** Decrees relative to this annexa. | tion," says The Matin, appeared in| | the official gazette of the Falkland | Islands; not in itself very wide-! spread publicity." By these decrees | the South Pole becomes an English | possession, adds the paper, as well | as all roads leading to it and all land explored. "It is true," says the Matin, "that | Ross, Scott and Shackleton were | English, but this discreet operation ' was never preceded by any interna- tional consultation." "This district, rich in whales, seals and fisheries, where all nation- lilies roap-a-harvest; Tie Matin de- clares, England has now arrogated to herself the right to control. "This is not likely to be without. profit," the journal continues. | "Probably Downing street will argue that the profit is far less than the burden of control, but that some- body had to do it." The Matin does not say whether] France would like the job, but, pa- turally, resents seeing France's | agelong rival attaching to herself anything so distinctive as the South Pole, lidge Orders Release Of Violators of War Laws Washington, Dee. 17.-- President Coolidge ordercd the release of all remaining imprisoned violators of | war laws. France Is Likely to Oppose the About thirty persons will gain their liberty as a result of the or- der They were convicted in vari- ous cases at Chicago, Kansas City and Sacramento Tho action was taken upon rec- ommendation of a special commit- to investigate the question of amnesty and upon the advice of the Department of Jug-| tice, { sie | Honor Departing Member, { Peterboro, Dec. 17. Kiwanis' | . . week!y luncheon was the scene of a) considered at Wednesday's meeting | James Rollins but tho present attitude of the preaentat on to Rev. French, it is stated semi->Micially, 1, D2StOr of St. Andrew's Presbyterian | against granting the application. Lemieux Act Upheld, | Chureh, and a member of the club, | {who leaves this week to take up a {new charge in Renfrew. Jazk Allen Toronto, Dec. 17.--While expres-;©" behalf of the club, presented the sing his belief that the applicatics |9€Parting member witn a silver. of the Lemieux Act to a public utilj- {mounted umbrela and a gold pen- ties corporation was justified under | Cll. the circumstances, and in doing so reversed the decision of Justice Orde, who held its application to be ultra vires, Justice Mowat, in a Judgment. given out on Saturday, | in regard to the legality and the conciliation rd appointed by the | Minis bor to investigate an | all wage dispute between 'the Toronto Eleétric Commissioners and | their employers, declared that he! would have the whole question re- ferred to a higher court. . -------- Opposes Ruhr Occupation. Paris, Dec. 17.--Leon Blum. the | French Socialist leader, delivered in | the Chamber of Deputies on Friday a four-hour speech against the Ruhr occupation. His argument was that occupation gives France no security, / because it has aroused the united opposition of Britain, made the whole world uneasy, and caused 5 ASE aries TR J NR v1 , but now Lord Birkenhead comes out | in The Sunday Times with a j effect the financial ruin of t AN ATTACK BY BRAENHE -- Ex-Lord Chancellor Decla London, Dec. 16.--The problem of how the political parties will line up in the House a month from now still presses itseif on the Lloyd George has already clared his belief in Liberal Suppo public attention, = de- for a moderate Labor Government, | strong article denying the right of Labor to succeed to office after all. +] "There Is no reason whatever," he' says, 'why the Socialist party should be allowed at this moment to take office. 'There is, on the contrary, every reason for repelling it. It rep= resents less than one-third of th House, uous minority in the country tham the Conservative party. "The differences in political views Which divide from both the older political parties are immeasurably greater than any which separate those two parties. The Labor party It is in a far more consple= | y is still, it is to be presumed, in favor of a capital levy. It is in favor of nationalization of the means of pro. duction, distribution and exchange. It is dominated by the Independent Labor party. ? "It is, in other words, frankly Socialist. It has some obscure but undesirable affiliation with the fn. ternational Socialist bodies, and has surrendered some degree of {ts in dependence to their decisions. It is committed to a policy of wholesale bribery, which will unquestionably vv." Asquith Ts Silent, | "Leadership somehow resem the famons" "Cwo-headed nig gale." "Lloyd George has spo but what will Mr. Asquith say? far, at any rate, he hae done nothin; to show that he sympathizes with Mr. Lloyd George's desire to give support to a Labor rather than & Conservative ministry, and it is sald by Parliamentarians bere to he dif. cult to see how a party so identified with individualism as the Liberats i could ever bo wholehearted allies of a ministry which holds as two of its principal tenets nationalization and the capital Jevy On the other hand, although Mr. Lloyd George's followers in the he couns Commons are now estimated at not more than 16 or 17, he might receive aid in the pressing advantage of standing behind Labor from a 80C~ tion of the Radicals. and it is said that Mr. Asquith cannot afford to forget the strength that his exubers | ant lieutenant may thus display. Consequently, the meeting to be held at the National Liberal Club, af which speeches will be delivered by Mr. Asquith. Mr. Lloyd Geurge and Sir John Simon, is likely to be great importance. . ---------- Women Demand Pledge. ' Vancouver, Dec, 17.--The pointment of women police, es lishment of a women's court for | men's cases, institution of the ad: probation system and right of h band and wife to vote individ on the home property, are four the important phases of a lst of points which the New Era League an. nounces it will demand a pledge upon from each mayoralty and alderma candidate in the election campaign. --- claritin Premier Poincare of France cepts Germany's advances with 1 tations, but will not revise the t -- On "Life and Love." At 15 a Girl~ Falls in LOVE With HERSELF. At 20, she generally Falls in love With A MAN. At 25, she is Ready TO LOVE. And at 30 She is ready Bat after 40 A woman SHOULD Be SATISFIED t onan. somatin 2X. * That Life owes her little oh On the Love score Because if she ISN'T It's getting a little late, Unless she is Desperately attractive, ™ Or just DESPERATE. Some wo are Born for LOVE, Others for MARRIAGE. A successful Si with BOREDOM, ; But some successful Nearly DIED of it. Syndicate. Tua : - Ba as