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CAPITOL NOW SHOWING "Ruggles of Red Gap' The Baily British Whig ee ---- CAPITOL Thurs., Fri, Sac. RUTH CLIFFORD n "HELL'S HOLE" LAST EDITION. YEAR 00; No. 299. KINGSTON, UNTARIO, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1923 RYAN "DOUBLE-CROSSED" HIS PAL WHO HELPED HIM He Gave Minneapolis Police the Clue That Located A Arthur Brown. It Is Thought He Fears to Return to Canada Because of a Murder Charge He Might Have to Face. Minneapolis, Minn.,, Dec. 19 "Red" Ryan is held up as cheap and contemptible crook the Minneapolis police. If what they say is true, and there are corrobora tive circumstances that leave little doubt, it was this trapped convict that handed his pal, Art Brown, to the execulioner who pretended to be so shocked when he saw his dead companion lying in the morgue who gave the | about, Brown's girl, and Of course, first tip where to find her robber was unnerved by he had passed Friday when Superin. tendent Frank Brunskill him in his cell. but al! he had to do to give Brown a chance to get out of town was to keep his mouth shut, and he didn't. Brown's body at the morgue, being visited Db} crowds, is the tangible result of that double-cross he handed the outlaw pal of whom the beaten crook whin- es 80 loudly. And Detective Meehan, | and then slew the said this of who shot "Red" man the crook betrayed, Ryan yesterday: -- Ryan Just Like .the "These killers are not Rest. 4 terrify- ing when you confront them on az | Ryay is | even footing with a gun. just like the rest of 'em. When I shot him at the post office it was just a slight wound, but he gave up and pleaded mot to be shot again. His gang usually shoot again when | they see their victim only wounded | and he thought I was going to give | him the same mercy these outlaws show others, buf that's not the police , 80 Wwe handcuffed him and brought him fn." «*" 'Red' double-efossed the man who, but an hour ago, had risked his life to try and rescue him as he was | brought bleeding ' from the post | office. Though Brown knew it was a dangerous job with so many armed detectives standing around, he took | the chance in spite of this, and | 'Red' an hour later at the station told the chief where he could prob- ably figd Brown, informing them of) the girl Brown was going with." Mixed Up in Murder? Chief Brunskill says he believes the secret of Ryan's refusal to go back to Canada without a fight is due to some murder case he has been mixed up in there which the) Canadian authorities have not yet connected him with, though the outlaw does not know that the po- lice have not got such evidence as will send him to the scaffold. They | ¢annot account for his stubborness on the question of going back in any other way. Secretary Brown, of the St. Paul Bankers' Association, has informed | t governor that his organization | feves that it is in the interest of | justice to have the robber sent hs ack | to Canada. Meantime, Detectives! mean and Tucker are anxiously awalting communications Washington and Ottawa. ted in Fourteen States, Yesterday morning Ryan cried to Captain Crummy: "No, captain, I'm not going back. I'm wanted in fourteen states and I can furnish the evidence that will make some of 'em hold me if you won't keep me here." And the imprisoned robber displayed wild rage and even fear when the captain replied: "Well, 'Red,' we don't 'want you here, Go back to your own country and they will treat you right, at least they will give you what you deserve." Jt was suggested that if the Cana- dian authorities would promise the prisoner not to inflict those seven lashes coming to Red under his sen- | tence that he would agree to go back, . but the chief spoke up and sald: , you don't have to compromise this crook. You can get him the law sooner or later, for tion to Be Appointed In Cl Quebes, Dec. 19.--In a further move to give the Protestants of this EEE SAT schools and educational! matters " peneral, ap act will be introduced in course of the present session of Jegisinture creating the post of by | It was the outlaw | the | the shock | of the bullet he had just received | and the trying battle through which i sweated | morbid | from! Up to the present the bandit has | not secured a lawyer. The authorities are watching all efforts to communi- | with their prisoner! very care- { fully. As far as they know, no one | { has had a chance to talk with Ryan | yet, who will communicate with his | friends against the wishes of the | police, but 'they can't tell, hecause of the completeness of the jail un-| | depground system that simply de fies | interference in all prisons. | cate Sleight of Hand. illustrating the cleverness of Ryan, the detectives told the writer this morning, with many jibes, how four of them had taken every stitch of clothing off their prisoner when he was first brought in and searched | it carefully, giving him nothing but | jail clothes and his own shirt back, | yut an hour later he was in posses- | sion of a $20 bill ly handed the janitor and asked him to send him in\ a chicken dinner. | Either the crook palmed the bill by sleight of hand during the search or had it in his mouth, the officers thought. In the detective bureau are | seen five saws taken from Ryan's) | clothes, three sewed into his coat | | collar and two in_hls--pants waist- | bands. They w8fe mere ribbons of | steel, five-Tnches long, but the offi- | cers said they were about .the best | steel-cutting tools 'they had ever | { seen. | While the governor, Walter Dun- can and Chief of Police Brunskill are determining the fate of "Red" | Ryan, the bandit continues to swear | that he will never go back alive to | Canada. 2 | As | | | | | | to be | Two Friends of Ryan. | There are two warm friends of} | Ryan in Minneapolis right now who | | are being watched for possible con-| | eutidne. They are the equally | motorious Mecum brothers. They | knew "Red" at Kingston where they | | were serving a term for highway | | robbery. The men were caught in| |a street gun fight in Winnipeg and taken from Stoney Mountain to | Portsmouth as being too dangerous | | tor the western prison. They lived | up to their reputation and made a | sensational dash for liberty froin | | Portsmouth but were caught. They | f are Americans and were deported | at the expiration of their sentences. | | They are conducting a small cabaret | and eating house here, frequented | | by underworld toughs, and are un- | der police surveillance. Complimentary Dinner. The business men of the eity Base } acranged a complimentary dinner | Chief Brunskill and his men oo cleaned up the bandit gang, Detec- tives Duncan and Tucker are in-| cluded in the invitations, Chief | Brunskill explained, for, as he said: | | "They brought us the information | | that gave us the chance to break up| the gang, and we are grateful." The bankers and business men of the Twin Cities have held meeting\ and expressed their gratification, especially since it has been disclosed that the band intended to rip up several banks in both cities which might have resulted in many deaths and heavy losses to the banks. ---- Cleaned Up $200,000. Minneapolis, Dec. 19.--In a ocon- fession to Frank Brunekill, chief of the Minneapolis police "Red" Ryan sald that he had cleaned up almost two hundred thousand dollars In crimes. He sald his plan to Tob a Bank in Pittsburg this fall was frus. trated when he read in a newspaper of the killing that day of a bandit in front of the bank. Tn less than three hours, Ryan and his' pal, Brown, left town. He declared that he walked into a bank in Cleveland and before holding up the cashier asked a woman wheeling a baby in a carriage to rave a seat and wall until he carried out the joy the superintendent of public instrue- tion in matters affecting general ad. ministration, in which neither re-| ligion nor language intervenes. This official will be given a free hand to | co-operate fully with the Protestant committee of the Council of Public Instructio Hon. Athanase David, provincial secretary, will be the father of the act, 9 AL TESTE { tering { the berth if at | been as | began to list, which he careless- | g | # HE'DIES ON HEARING | hundred bags of Dow's best will be J jail |oWNER oF VESSEL SUES THE ENGINEER | 'Hinckley Claims laims Ogdensburg | PARTY POWER Man to Blame for Sinking of Pentland. 19. Ogdensburg, Dee. -~C aiming | that John Rega of the city, marine | engineer, is responsible for the sink- | | ing last June of the steamer Pent- | land, which struck a pier while en- | the port of Port Colborne, Canada, Captain Augustus Hinckley, of Oswego, has brought an action in | the supreme court of St. Lawrence | county againsy him for $10,000] damages, It is the assertion of copia] | Hinekley that Engineer Rega failed | { to come to the assistance of Second | {| Engineer Michael Gordon, | go, during an emergency. i plaint states that when Gordon was of Oswe- The com- hired he had had no previous experi- ence with engines on vessels the size of the Pentland, b#t would accept necessary times as- sistance was forthcoming from Rega The claims that Rega | new the craft was going into Port Colborne and that he should have ting the second engineer, thus avoiding the mishap when the | vessel collided with the dock caus- ing her to sink. Hinckley claims that after the boat hit the dock-and the chief engineer re- fused to start the pumps, Rega's counsel has filed a denial to the complaint stating that Hinek- ley hired Gordon himself and that the signals from the pliot house were followed propefly in the engine room. plaintiff (EXER EE EE EE EER NX XJ] HIS HORSE BROKE LEG -Catharines, Dec. 19.-- John Kraemer, veteran butcher of this city, yesterday morning was notified his old horse he thought a lot of had broken its leg. He went over and saw the animal, then retarned to his shop, down and died. He had been a resident of St. Catharines for many years, St * * + J * * + + ° (AE EZ EE EISELE 2 KJ UNCLE SAM WILL SELL MAPLE LEAF sat CLF tbr berber te Schooner Which Ran Amuck Will Be Disposed-of at" Oswego. Oswego, N.Y., Dec. 19.--John H. Pallace, collector of the port of Rochester antoynced that the Cana- dian schooner Maple Leaf which met with disaster through running | afoul of the customs authorities and the prohibition officials with ten sold to the highest bidder at the Oswego custom house on Monday, January 7th, 1924, at p.m, The Maple Leaf, which came from Kingston, is homeless and alone in the East Cove. The fragrant Cana- | dian ale aroma from the planks of the ship which were saturated with the contents of broken bottles will | be missed by visitors to the fort 2 ------------ HE AWAITED BURGLARS RETURN AND SHOT THEM War Veteran | Keeps Nightly Vigil--Two of Them Are Dead. Brockport, N.Y., Dec. 19.--Ed- ward A. Copeman, world war vet- 'eran and proprietor of a garage here, kept nightly vigil for a month for the return of burglars who had robbed m of $1,600, Early yesterday morning they came. Copeman shot George Gum- brecht, of Rochester, through the heart, killing him instantly, and mortally wounded Michael Zambito, also of Rochester. Zambito died in a hospital several hours later. Two companions escaped with rifle bul- lets plunking into the rear of their. automobile. They were rounded up by sheriffs' deputies after daylight and taken to the Monroe County Authorities sald the four rob- bed several stores in barge canal towns Monday night. Swindled to Get Money To Spend on Woman New York, Dec. 19.--Alhert BE. Guimares, a central figure in the in- vestigation of the murder of Dor- | othy King. Broadway butterfly, to- day was renitenced to Atlanta bk three years after he had declared he | 'had resorted to swindling opera. tions in order to keep the affections of 'a woman" on whom he had spent $60,000. Missing in Hotel Fire. Houston, Tex. 0 ------ director of the Amcrican ratiroads, has formally announced his candi: dacy for the Democratic president- Willlam ' Gibbs McAdoo, war-time" 154. uomiugtion ot: the Uulied Stuten teen persons believed to Nave been in the Capitol botel when it burned early yesterday morning had | not yet been accounted for, but it | with other parties, was not believed that many Durishod tn the fire. wi od GIVE LABOR This Appears To Be the of the Lib Liberals. MAY THEN TURN 11° OUT: And Succeed to Administra- tion Themselves--What Newspapers Think. London, Dec. 19.---Herberi quith"s speech at the yesterday, in which he said party would not form an alliance is interpreted by. the newspapers. to-day as meaning in effect that thé Liberals are mined to put the Labor government in power at the earliest possible mos As- ment after thé preliminary businesa | of the new parliament has been transacted, The Liberals plan to support a Labor ministry as long as they judge it desirable to do so, the newspapers think, and will then turn it out and succeed to the administration them- selves. Conservative papers do not at- jtempt to conceal their feelings that the government is doomed. FRANK HODGES, M.P. British Labor leader, who toured Canada last summer, whose resignation as secretary to the Miners' Federation, has been accepted "A queer re- ward," was his remark upon the sub- jeot. He was re-elected to Parliament at the recent elections. Youths Sentenced. Brockville, Dzc. 19.--On Monday Judge Reynolds imposed sentence of two years less one day each in Bur- wash, on (larence Haggelt and John Trussell, with a further indetermin- ate sentence of two years less one day. The two young men were arrest- ed on Dec. 3rd, some distance east of the town after a thrilling chase across country, and later pleaded guilty to several charges of entering stores and other places and stealing a quantity of Jewelry and other articles. -- -- rr Smallpox At Fort William. Fort William, Dec. 19.--~Three cases of smallpox have developed here, and it is believed the mild out- break occurred in a railway bunk- house. It {8 understood the disease has also showed itself at Kenora. King Leaves Greece. - London, Dec. 19.--King George and Queen h of Greece left Piraeus last night aboard a steam- ar, says an agency despatch from the Greek capital. Liberal club | tihe | deter- | TROOPS OF OF SOVIET REPORTED IN MUTINY | {In Several Cities -- Harsh Regime Is Said to Be the Cause. * | Harbin, Dec. 19.--The mutiny ot] | the Soviet Russian tfobps, commenc- ing last Monday, is reported from | Viadivostok, Nikolak and Khabar- ovsk. Mutinous Reds reports say, are | | being assisted by the partisans of | white or anti-Soviet faction in Si- { berta. The populations of the cities | named are said to have been driven [ to- desperation by the ruthless ocol- | lection of food, taxes, religious per- | secution and. a harsh official soviet | regime. CARNARVON'S WIDOW. Married in London Pennistoun. London, Dec. tess of Carnarvon, widow of | Earl of Carnarvon, discoverer of the {| tomb of Tutenkhamen, today to Lieut.-Col. Ian Onslow Den. | nistoun, formerly: an officer of Gre- | nadier Guards. The ceremony was | performed at the registry office in the presence of a few friends of the couple. <> | LORD Was to Col. late The Chester Concession Annuled 'at Angora London, Dec. 19.---A telegram from Angora received in Constanti- nople states that the commissioner of works yesterday ° notified the agent of Colonel Clayton Kennedy of the annulment of the Chester concession for Anatolian develop- ment, says a Reuter despatch Constantinople this afternoon. A LAND DISPUTE. Title by Possession is the Point at Issue. An Interesting Mountain Grove will case was heard by Judge H. A. Lavell in the Surrogate court on Monday, in connection with the will of the late Mrs. Adela Dmake which was entered for probate. The late Mrs. Drake died about a few months ago and she willed her home and the land on which the house stood to her grandson. The owner of the farm on which Mrs. Drake's house was built, stated that although the deceased had lived on his farm for twenty years he had never given her the deed and when the house was built. it-was on. the u that after the death, of Mrs. Drake tHe property was to revert back to the man who owned the farm. The contention of the executors of the late Mrs. Drake was that she had ob- tained title by possession and that the deceased had made no agreement with the owner of the land that it would revert back. Eleven witnes- ses were called. Judgment ' was re- served. p---------------- CASE FURTHER' ENLARGED. In Which Youth Is Charged With Theft of a Saddle. Additional evidence in the case ot Gondon Abrams, charged with the theft of a saddle from Harry Small, was taken in the police court om Wednesday morning, after which the case was further emlarged till Friday morning. The accused gave evidence. He ad- mitted borrowing the saddle to take a colt to Elginburg. He said that he and a friend named Urquhart, =a soldier, took the cot to Elginburgz and that after returning to «he city, the saddle was placed in a shed at the artillery park barracks. Accus- ed sald he recently underwent an operation for hernia, and was" not able to carry the saddle, but his friend had promised to take it back to Mr. Small the next day. Later om it was discovered tha' the saddle had been removed from the shed and all efforts to locate it had been unsuccessful, County Council Presentations. On behalf of the council for the county of Frontenac, W. C. Tay- lor, of Burridge and James Sprott, Lataraqui,. the Frontenac cheese makers who were awarded first ana Ahird prizes at the dairyman's show in London, England were on Wed- mesday afiernoon presented with a gold watch and a clock respective- dy. Warden J. S. Sibbet made the Presentations at the court house, Passed in Pharmacy. The announcement of the results in the junior examinations at the Ontario College of Pharmacy, To- ronto, contains the names of §. H. G. Ball and Alexander Knight, Kingston, as having passed in all subjects. SE ------------------------------ Distiller Liberated, Albert J. Van Luven, Lough- borough, who was convicted on Mon- day of having a mesh capable of being manufactured into apirits, and a part of a still, pald the $200 fine 395 appeals against the voters' lists of Kingston township. This is the largest number of appens to come batore the sourt. 9. ~--Dowager Coun- | was married | from / that | Judge Lavell will hold a session | fat Cataraqui on Dee. 27th to hear | INDIAN GETS SILVER FOX Ina Trap That He Set to Cit Wen HE MAKES A GREAT TRADE Given Horses, Sleigh, Har- ness, Provisions For Win- ter And Fitty Dollars. Saskatoon, Sask., Dec. 19.--Set- ting his trap near St. Walburg, | Sask., to catch weasels, Little Bould- | er, a ten-year-old Indian boy, was | disappointed the other day when he i found a snarling little black animal { caught in the steel jaws. In disgus. he took it to his father, "Hump," said the noble red skin, as he sprang on his cayouse and galloped 'as fast as he could to the Hudson's Bay companys trading post at Green Lake. There he traa- ed the skin of the little black ani- mal for a team of horses, a sleigh, a double set of harness, enough pro- visions to last throughout the wint- ter'and $50 in cash. It was a beaut!- ful specimen «of silver black fox. DOGS SAVE THER OWNER Awaken Him When in Dan- ger of Asphyxiation. ROOM WAS FULL OF SMOKE Animals Dragged Their ing Master From Se Montreal Factory. Montreal, Dec, 19.--By dragging their sleeping master from his bed to the floor, two dogs yesterday saved the life of E. Guy, sixty years oid, who would have perished from ase-- phyxiation had he not been awakens ed by the fall and thus enabled to make his escape. Guy was sound asleep in his room on the second-storey of the biscuit factory at which he was employed ag a night watchman, when he wass rudely awakened by being dragged from his bed. He found the room full of smoke and his two dogs tugging at his night clothes. Hastily don- f-ing a pair of trousers he made his the burning building to followed by his faithful way from the street, friends. British Officers and Women Murdered or Kidnapped | pi------y | London Dee. 19.--Concern is felt | in Great Britain as a result of aj series of murders and kidnappings | of British officers and British wo- men in Afghanistan on the Afghan border. All British women have been sent from the British legation at Khabul, the Afghan capital, to safety in India Detective Stops Lynching. Nepor York, Dec. 19.--Arrival of Detective Thomas Foster, of the | Bedford avenue station, the police say, saved Adam Kramer, ex-convict, from being hanged to a Jamp post in South 4th street, Brooklyn, yes- terday, by a group of angry women, who charged him with swindling them out of pelty sums by repre- senting himself to be a collector for an electric light eompany. Acute Tension. London, Dec. 19.--Reports have been published abroad to the effect that a very serious state of affairs exists on the northwest frontier of India, and that relations between the government of India and the government of Kabul have reached a point of acute tension. { Death of Noted Preacher. London, Dec. 19.--Rev. John Henry Jewett, noted British clergy- man, formerly pastor of Fifth ave- nue Preshyterian cHurch, in New: York, died at his home at Croy- don, Surrey, this morning. HENRY FORD DECLARES HIMSELF FOR COOLIDGE Says Ninety Per Cent. of the People Feel 8afe With Him. Detroit, Mich, Dec, 19.--Henry Ford today declared he "like the | great majority of American people" | feels that "the country is safe with Coolidge," and that he himself would not consider running against the president on any ticket. "I believe it is the wise and na- tural thing for the people to agree on the nomination and election of Mr. Coolidge," Mr. Ford said. "I am satisfled that ninety per cent. of the people feel perfectly raf~ with Mr. Coolidge, so Why change?" So many objections are being urg. ed against the sales tax that some modification of it at the next session of parliament is predicted. AGAINST CHURCH UNION. | "Toronto Congregation Vate Was 300 to One, Toronto, Dec. 19.--At a special meeting of the congregation of the new St. Andrew's Presbyterian church last night, the members vot- ed overwhelmingly against the pro- posed organic church. union, over & three hundred voting against union . and only one for it. A resolution was adopted urging the parliament of Canada and the legislature of Ontario not to pass the proposed legislation without proof that on a vote regularly taken the said legislation had the practie- ally unanimous approval 'of the members and adherents of the Pres- byterian church. Hurt in Auto Accident, Ottawa, Dee. 19 mown A ously thiured automobile in which they were ing to Ottawa skidded at a sha turn near Hazeldean and capsized inta the diteh., Mrs. H. Silverstone suffered a bad cut in the head snd possible internal injuries, Mr. Ho- gan's leg was broken, Mrs. Crowe's shoulder was dislocated, and Mrs. Hogan and Mr. Silverstone received severe bruises and shock. The injur- ed were rushed to a local hospital. Much Drinking in St. Johm, : St. John, N.B., Dec. 19--From present indications December will be a record breaker in the amount eol- lected in fines for violations of the prohibition act here, as the number of cases pending make it sure that over $5.000 will be taken in from this source. Up to date there had been collected $4,000, and several cases are yet fo be tried, The near- st to this figure is September last, when $4,400 was taken in from this source. 3 ee -- Girls and Dance Halls. Kitchener, Dec. 19.--The amend~ ment to the by-law regulating dance halls, which proposed to forbid wo- men entering public dance halls un- less escorted by a male person, parent or a guardian, was defeated by a vote of 8 to 7 by the city coun cil here last night. Al] of the alder men favored a second clause which excluded girls 18 and under, Four bandits held up and robbed the International Building and Loan Association, Cleveland, Ohio, of ten thousand dollars. ; Automobiles to 8 total value of $50,000 have been stolen li Syracuse, N.Y., owners since Oct. 1st, | | "You Said It, Marceline!" | : MARCELINE TALROY ca ! On "Wives and Flivvers." Some MEN get more THRILL Out of their AUTOMOBILE Than they DO out of Their WIVES-- I mean, their WIFE. And ALL men are Far more patient With their FLIVVERS Than they are with Their FAMILIES, Men a are 80 stupid, pr Os nT RGR A Or over WOMEN | ° Sometimes BOTH. © A man treats bis ear Coppeigt, 10%, To a close inspection Every day, But he often neglects His wife; He spends a lot of Money on his machine and Thinks he has : A luxury--{for the Next few years; - But though he supports A wife for a LIFETIME He never realizes that she Is more IMPORTANT, Because she has Become a NECESSITY. * Toomer Srodicate, Toa