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Annuo rnnir MUUIIIO LUUlL N. Y. LIFE GUARD. SUED FOR D1V0RC E Zimmerman Pined for Man hattan Beach Sand After IVVedding Wealthy Widow. TAUGHT HER TO SWIM. SFormer Mrs. Cornelius A. Lane in May Denied Ru- mors of Disagreement. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Oct. 14. Among the sulta for dlvorco started In the Court of Common Pleas No. 2 Is one by Mrs. Edwin Hbwley Zim- merman, widow of a wealthy Phlla-delphta- n, against her second hus-'bxn- d, a Manhattan Beach, N. Y., tlfer guard. Rumors late In May wero that Ed- - die Zimmerman, known as the Adonis Manhattan Beach, was tired of the quiet life his wife wanted him to lead, and divorce proceedings were to be started. At that time the reports vera vigorously denied. Mrs. Zimmerman was the widow of srnellus A. Lane, a young mllllon- - ire publisher, who died In 1910. Then khe met Eddie. Manhattan Beach folks who gasped arurprlso In Jvne, 1921, when they earned that Eddie Zimmerman, donls lifeguard, had become the hus- - and of Mrs. Cornelius A. Lane, mll- - lbnalre widow, .accepted as a matter if course y news from Phlladel- - ihla that Mrs. Zimmerman had sued for divorce. As early as last May It had become nown that Eddie was not enamored ef life as male chatelaine of the Wealthy Mrs. Lane. Being lord of the costly Philadelphia mansion and the $120,000 Manhattan Beach villa hlch his wife Inherited from her first husband didn't mean much in his ath- letic young life as long as that life Ijad to be spent In seclusion, as Mrs. Klmmerman wished. Neither did trips Europe, Bermuda and Palm Beach. Sddle pined again to live the freo nd untrammelled career of a popular d admired life guard. And so one y about a year after his marriage f reappeared at Manhattan Beach n the role which he had played for fteen years, or since he was a boy f sixteen. Mrs. Zimmerman Is the finest Woman In the world,\ he told ac quaintances, \but I like this life the air, the sea, the people. I don't know what It Is but It gets a hold on you you can't break.\ This was on May 25. The next day in Philadelphia Mis. Zimmerman de- nied there had been a separation. \There Is really no truth In the stories about Eddie and me,\ she ex plained. \My husband often goes to New York on business. Ho may be at Etfce beach. I won't discuss tho matter further.\ Since then the Zlmmermans havo Topped out of the limelight. Their romance was forgotten until news prae y of the divorce suit. Mrs. Zimmerman's first husband as a publisher. He and she at- - racted attention at Manhattan Beach 1916 when they built a J120.000 Ilia at Falmouth Street and Hamp- - n Avenue, only three blocks from here Eddie Zimmerman was pur ging his duties as life guard. t was one of the show places of the ach, with twenty-tw- o rooms, six ths, a magnificent nursery and a raga for six automobiles. However, e Lanes with six children kept every rner of It alive with mirth until, a w months following tho house warm ing, Mr. Lane died. In the mean time Kuuie had Income oil acquainted with tho family. Hn ught the Lane children to swim and nally Mrs. Lane became his pupil. utomoblle rides followed. Then In une, 1921, it leaked out that the life ard and the rich widow had become usband and wife. Eddie was popu- - ar with the children, and the future eemed rosy. 3ANADA ntiM PATnni, is vr.i. LOWHSY'K jon, WASHINGTON, Oct. 24. Under the inforcement plan mapped out for New ork State, E. C. Ycllowlcy, who bo- - .m Prohibition Director Nov. 1. Ill devote special attention to na- - rolllns the Canadian border and pre senting smuggling. 11 Mrs. A. K. Now in New York With Three of Arson and Gave Birth to in and Died of By Mooers an American woman, her sons, her little daughter, saw bleeding, burning Smyrna at closa range, and how narrowly they themselves escaped Is told In tho most thrilling first-han- d docu- ment yet received here about the latest terror In tho East. This document Is the personal diary of Mrs. A. K. Jennings, which she brought Into New York yesterday on her arrival from the East, with her two sons, Asa and Wilbur, and her little daughter, Bertha. Tho whole family, to- gether with Mr. Jennings, who la an Y. M. C. A. work- er, spent tho period during which tho Turks wero ravaging Smyrna with fire and sword at the College, about four miles from the city walls. They saw all that went on. Their lives wero in danger. And here are Mra. Jen- nings's Just as they were Jotted down from moment to moment of peril, In her diary. The \A. K.\ mentioned la of course her husband. Dr. or McGlantln Is tho President of the College, Just outsldo Smyrna. Monday, Sept. 4. Trainloads of refugees coming into city and road Is also full of them going by every possible way one woman with twin babies and other chil- dren threw one child out of tho window when It cried. Went Into city and tho sights were of hor- ror. Women with nrusing babies and no place to go Smyrna streets packed with people of all ages sleeping on the pavements. No one knows what to do or what will happen. People say all Christiana ate to be killed. Ter- ribly hot. Every one trying to leavo city. All Greek officers' families going, also soldiers. Tuesday, Sept. 6. Turks not arriving so fast as expected, but refugees are coming Into tho city SO, 000 per day. Sept. . A. IC. Chairman of Feeding and Kitchen Committee. Taken over theatre to be used by Americans In case of n 'cessity. Babies born on street, for all hospitals full. Thursday, Sept. 7. Refugees contlnuo to pass the house all day long. Friday, Sdpt. 8. American sailors came to protect campus. Saturday, Sept. 9. In the A. M. early Turkish troops began firing on refugees. American flag had not been raised except on our house as It was agreed to raise It only 1 caso of danger. They put up tho flag and about 1,000 refugees with luggago poured onto cai ipus. They wore not admitted at gate beside our house as that would have directed all tiro that way and over campus. People wero Injured and killed and later from our window wo watched them burled. Nursing baby died because mother could not get food. A. K. going by auto Into Smyrna shots flying around tho car all tho way. Defeated army bad passed our homo all night and during tho forenoon. Sunday, Sept. 10. All called to college early, for Turks were pur- suing tl defeated Greek army and from window In top of college with my Bias s I watched the \Battle of Paradise.\ Tho Greeks ' ' \ il ' \ 1 ' Tr,u i TUESDAY, Horrors of Smyrna, Latest Terror of the East, Revealed in Diary of Brave American Woman Witnessed Turks' Unspeakable Atrocities Jennings, Children, Describes Scenes Murder, Pil- lage Almost Incredible. Buffeted Women Among Refugees Children Streets Babes Starvation-- All Christians Expected Death. Marguerite Marshall. HOW eight-year-o- ld International Inter- national continually Impressions, President, International Wednesday, PANTOMINE THE EVENING WORLD, OCTOBER Who wero surrounded by Turk cavalry thr.t time from every direction and they were tho target of ma-chl- nr gun and cannon flro from the hills. Balls dropping every- where among the Greek troops. T riblo slaughter. Monday, Sept. 11. Much loot- ing by the Turltls:. troops and shooting every one they could see. Dr. McGlautin nnd all our sailors went outside the campus to ask them to stop looting tho settle- ment house. They began firing on them, fifty or sixty shots being fired at short distance, but tho Capt. kept calling to sailors not to shoot for that would havo meant death to all. Only by a mlraclo were they saved and Turks had wanted McGlautin to hand them over to be killed. They took ill clothing from Capt. Crocker and President McGlautin, ulso their watches, monoy and rings. Then were about to kill them when a Turkish oftlcer appeared and stopped them, allowing them to dress and return to college. Turks passing our gate covered sailor with guns, took his sun from him, then in dispute as to what they should do, one pointed his gun to kill, for they did not seem to understand wo wero Americans. I rushed upstairs and called a Turk fellow who had gone to bed for a little rest after being up several nights. Ho got to my bedroom window Just in time to explain and so save shoot- ing. Tuesday, Sept. 12 We bad called for regular Turk troops to help guard. About 1 A. if. cav- alry came and said they wero to help guard, but our Turkish frlrnd heard them talking and knew they were all bandits who had come to loot and get all they could. They were going to kill one of the Greek refugees but our boys stopped them. Thcj-di- d take money and other things from the refugees. Our 1oys all took posts In the college and trained the machine guns and their own guns on bandits to keep them from rushing the college, expecting every moment a fierce battle. We weie all In the attic of the college, fully dressed, ready to run for our lives. The night before we had also gone to bed fully dressed. Wednesday, Sept. 13 At 6 A. M. called A. IC. to drive car to Smyrna to tell officials bandits wero on rampus and for them to send regular troops to relieve our boys, which they did, and tho handlts were sent out. But they left their old horses and in plnco took best ones belonging to refu- gees. A. K. came from Smyrna and said we had all been ordered to board destroyer at once. Wo grabbed a few things and A. K. tlrovo us to town, passing dead bodies all the way and expecting to be shot any moment. He left us at tho theatre, then returned for other Americans. Left tho doomed city at 8 P. M., which was then burning fiercely, people rushing madly In all directions. People expected to be massacred before morning. Left most of our belongings In house. One sailor kissed me goodbye, said not In years had any one been so kind to him. The last we saw of A. K. he had walked Into the crowd. GAI.K TU.OWS DOWN HOl'SRS AMI TIIKRS IN ro.NXKUTICI'T. (Bpwi&l to The Efnlng World.) ONECO. Conn.. Oct. 21.-L- ast night's gale caused thousands of dollars damage throughout this section. More than a score of buildings were blown down In this town. Church sheds were demolished, trees were broken and stripped uf late truit. One farmer lost several hundred I'.illais\ worth of russet apples. How lone nine toii't hart \One Eicltlnf NIBtT\ Arollo Thtr. Advt, Second Girl Flees and Weds After Father Fails to Have Her Sister's Oct. 24. A sec-- - end daughter of Hiram G. Bates. deck manufacturer, has eloped. Sho is Helen Bates, twenty. A telegrarn announcing her marrlago In Now York to Albert Lester Gardner of Cam- den, N. J., has been received nnd the young couplo are making their hqmo In a West Philadelphia apartment, tho address of which they rcfuso to reveal for fear of a visit from tho Blrl'3 father. Batea Is said to have stood In front of Gardner's store, In the Chamber of of Commorco Building, Camden, yes- terday In the hopes of being able to BOOZE BEFORE LAWYER \Where Does He Get It?\ Asks Justice in Suit. During an argument by counsel uf Mrs. Mary M. Albro for alimony and counsel fees pending her suit for n separation from her husband, Albert T. Albro, son of a prominent mer-rhn- of White Plains, the statement was made in court y that the defendant was n \chronic alcoholic.\ \This defendant does not know that tho Volstead Act has been passed.\ said tho lawyer, In behalf of the plaintiff. \He is not the only one that docs not know tho Volstead Act Is a law,\ was tho rejoinder of Justice MorschauBcr. Mrs. Albro asked for $70 a week alimony for the support of herself and child nnd $250 counsel fees. Sho charges her husband with cruelty and desertion. Counsel representing Mr. Albro nald that he had an affidavit from lho defendant's father that his son has been a \chronic alcoholic\ for be nine or ten years. He said the de- fendant had no money to pay fur the mipport of his wife because hn was an object of charity on the part of his father, who gives him only a dollar a day. \The defendant Is so afflicted with lho alcoholic complaint,\ said the lawyer, \that ho haa to have a drink of whiskey licforc breakfast.\ \Where docs he get It? I didn't know you could get liquor In White J'la-lns,- Justice Morschauser crm-mcntt- \Oh you can get it almost any place in White Plains,\ the attorney replied. Justice Morschauser reserved de- cision. r it 'r II Vf'll UIIIII All. jriti:i i'vtii, mv. at. Federal Judge Mayer y announrcd that the application of tho Continental Securities Company for the appointment of a receiver for tho Interborough Kupld Transit Company because of n threat- - ned default in iiayrni.nl of Interest has iota udjourned tin I tl Nov. 21 to allow lho Reorganization Committee, time to roniplele its work. Hath toii rter rratlr had \On Virltlnc Mint?\ jleollo Tntstr Advt. L DOON W FROM OLD HOUSEKEEPER Elopement Alarm Rings Again For Philadelphia Clockmaker Marriage Annulled. PHILADELPHIA, MUST HAVE BREAKFAS SAYS Separa- tion State Boxing Commissioner Also Executor of Estate of Mile. Lutringer. By tho will of Mile. Lconle Lut- ringer, almost thirty years his house- keeper, William Muldoon, head of the State Boxing Commission, Inherits $72,205 68, according to tho transfer tax appraisal of tho cstato filed In tho Westchester County Court In addition to being tho residuary legatee Mr. Muldoon Is tho executor of the estate. As Mr. Muldoon has a claim against the estato of $38,871.11, his actual inheritance Is approximately $33,400. In connection with this claim the papers show that Mr. Muldoon, the manager of the health farm over wlrich Mile. Lutilugcr presided, Rome years ago set asldo $30,000 which was, to be hers upon Ills death or when sho should have completed thirty years of servlcj In her position. This was In tho nature of a bonus nnd was placed In her name. Had she lived until February' last she would have completed the required servlc. When sho died she left her estate, excluding $10,000 In legacies, to h- -r employer. Included was the $30,000, with accrued Interest In bank. This sum constitutes tho claim against the estate which was allowed by Surro- gate Slater, relieving Mr. Muldoon from payment of an Inheritance tax upon It. meet tho bridegroom face to face. This elopement camo tho day fol- lowing Bates's loss of a fight to re- gain custody of his soventcen-ycar-ol- d daughter, Ella, who eloped to New York on June 12. The fatner brought Mrs. Sherrcrd from her homo In Huddonfleld to Philadelphia, whero he had her ar- rested on a charge of Incorrigibility. He asserted ho had been unablo to ilnd any record In New York of her marriage to Sherrord. At the Bates home tho elopement Helen was denied by her father, but a younger daughter, Alice, ad- mitted her sister was married. MISS TUMULTY, NOW ON ROAD TO HEALTH, WILL RETURN SOON vitas MA,Ry TUMUOV I'AKIS, Oct. 24. Word lma been hero thnt Mlm Miiry Tumulty, daughter of Joseph P. Tumulty, wlr was serioujly Injured In ,'i motor uccl-de- Aug. 12 last m ar Munich, is prac- tically out of diiiiKur and expects t\ taken homo soon by her father The latter, who was et'rctary to President Wilson, la In constant utlenl.uicu on his daughter. MIbh Tumulty's Injuries Involving laceration of the llvei arl pulmonary complications, baffled the hursenna, anil her life long hung by a tl.n ad. Two American doctors, llurki an'i Abbott of Iiurfalo, meeting Mr. Tumulty, volun- teered their Hurvlcea, uri'i, with fierman physicians, studied the cane. An oper- ation by Dr. fiauerbruck of Munich taved the patient. Miss Tumulty Is now at Dr. Sauer-bruck- 's clinic. WIFE RESCUES HUSBAND AS OIL STOVE UPSETS Inn, llndlr llnrnrit. I ItcnuMril to lliillnl. ' Abraham Freeman nieldentally over- turned an oil stove In the Mt hr n nf his home, on the Cilni ''oor \f No ytm Cortlnndt Street, Corny Inland, this morning. Instantly hli dothing caught tire from tho burning oil. Ills sifo and a IMtor urff-e.'- In putting out the (lames llh blankets. Ily tho time firemen had extinguished the tiro the entire klt hen was burned iut. Freeman was taken to Coney Irlnnrt Hospital with severe hum ab\ut tho legs and body. 24, 1922. Mrs.CeciIe R. Oyster Weds Again, This Time to Albany Electrician Widow of Wealthy Dairyman, Left Only $25,000, Has Suit Pending for Dower Rights. WASHINGTON, Oct. 24. Mrs. Cocllo Heady Oystor. formerly ot Syracuse, nnd widow of tho lato Georgo si. Oyster, wealthy Washington dairyman, was married nearly two montho ago to Bornnrd SI. Shlrcllff of Albany, It was rovraled hero to-d- by Shlrcllff'a fathor. At tho tlmo of her first marrlago Mrs. BhlrcltlT was only about half tho ago of Oyster. Ho died shortly, leaving her only $:!,000. Proceedings to break tho will and obtain her dower rights are now pending. Her second husband Is thirty-tw- o years old und Is employed by tho American Telephone and Telegraph Compnny. Tho couplo nro now In Now York City, Shtrcllff's father said. STILL EXPLOSION DRIVES MANY TO STREET IN PANIC Three Overcome in Brook- lyn Hundreds Scared in Manhattan Blast. Explosion of a still on tho first floor of a two-story- '' framo building at No. 245 Wallabout Street, Urook-ly- early y sent tcnment dwell- ers In tho vicinity fleeing In sennty attire to the street. Window panes wero shattered nnd three porsons were found unconscious as tho result of tho explosion. The still was of fifteen or sixteen gallon capacity and was located In tho rear of tho building, which faces a four-stor- y tenement house In which sixty families live. Lodgers, fearing further destruction ot tho premises, turned In a fire alarm. l'ollco Kergt. Frederick Babcock and Patrolman Joseph Vnlonl of the Clymer Htreet Htatlon found .Louis Bartolowltz, thirty-tw- o; his ' Vlfo, thirty, and son, Iouls, one year old, unconscious In an adjacent apartment on tho same floor. No one was found In tho room where tho utlll had been kept. A dozen bottles of whiskey and half a dozen bottles of crcme do mentho were found In Unrtolowltz'a room, the pulltu said. Uartolowltz wan revived and placed under nrrest, charged with violation of the State Prohibition Act. Tho police say Uartolowltz has a police record. Ho denied knowledge of the still, but will be held for hav- ing liquor In his pnsscMNioii. Tho explosion of a utlll In tho cellar of the three-stor- y tenement at No. G12 Knst 121st Street late last night caused ELEVEN VICTIMS OF HARLEM BLAZE ARE BURIED TO-DA- Y Hive of Silver Family at Noon and in Afternoon Six of Sugarman Family. i:i- - ven of tho fifteen victims of tho S'inday morning tenement flic at No. 1T78 Lexington Avenue wen: burled t' dA There was one funerul for tl-i- ' iie members of the Sliver family whu died, and one for tho six mem-b- i s i.t tho Sugarman family. Tin- Silver funeral, perhaps becauso tho service was held near tho seen J \ the fire, attracted a crowd of 5,000 people, Including many hysterical women. It was held ut the under- taking rooms of Alport Brothers, No. I'll Kast 119th Street, and when the bodies were carried away ti be burled ai Washington Cemetery tho hearses -- four black nnd one white had to pass the blackened building whero th\ ictlms died. Ho great wns tho crowd and so Its emotion that twenty police- men, called from reserve duly, had all 'hey could do to maintain iirder and a clear way for tho procession, which was headed by llabbl Bernard Port-no- und by Mrs. Yetta Silver, the lonely survivor of the fainllj Tho Hugiirmnn funeral wns held 'utcr at the undei taking rooms of Sigmund Schwartz, No. 311! Fifth Street. Thrro wero fifteen de.iths In tho tire. Many of those who survived are destitute and a relief comnilttio has been formed, headed bj Martin J. Kennedy, No. 46 Dcy Stiet(. The Vorkvllle Hank Is custodian of the fund and one of the subsirlbcrK Sev- eral hundreds of dollars havo been given. I ted Cross aid lb aluo being gven. GREENWICH FOLK SUFFER WHEN COAL BARGE SINKS lHprln to Th Hvenlnr Wml OimnNWICir. Conn . Or(. 21 Hargc \loe\ from Perth Amboy loaded l'l 7(10 tons of stove and hot coal for the Masfr Hros. Corporation here struck n submerged relic coming through Hell rjato yesterday afternoon and eank ir sixty ffot of water The loss will be keenly felt by towns- people Many arc now iiiialiln to obtain enough coal ' keen their furnaces COlnu .Mas GEORGE M OYSTER Intense excitement. Hundreds of ten- ants In tho neighborhood rushed to the street. Many thought tho detonation was due to a bomb. Pollco found the remnants of a fifty-gallo- n still In the cellar und a doz-- n bottles ot what Is believed to be de- natured alcohol. Tho cellar was rented two weeks ago to a man whoso name and address wero not mado public by tho pollcu. SCREAMS OF MAID I AI BURGLAR STIRS I COLUMBIA HEIGHTS 1 Four Phone Girls Brave Death, Sticking to Posts Amid Flames Two Overcome in Doomed Building as They Remain to Summon Firemen From Nearby Towns. MKROILVNTVILLE, N. J., Oct. 24. Praises aro being 'sung hero to- day of four talcphonu girls, comprising tho night shift ot the local exchango, who hravctt death last night by sticking to their posts unUl they summoned nil tho local ilrctncn and those of several surrounding towns und cities when (lames enveloped tho building In which they wero working. Finally, two of them wore carried and the remaining two 'woro as- sisted to tho street by firemen. Mercantile Hall, tho building ln-- i which they were located, was a three-stor- y framo structure. To-da- y It Is a mere' shell, tho damage being esti mated at $25,000. Tho ground floor was occupied by tho Mcrchantvllh Water Company, tho second, which Is the Uall, waa occupied by about tlfty members of tho P. O. S. of A. lodge, who were holding a meeting, and tho REGISTERED, GIRL SAYS, IN NAME OF HIS DEAD BROTHER CliauiTeur Accused After lie Pays Attention to An- other Woman. Samuel Gamlxi, twenty, a chauffeur, living at No. 57 Thompson Street, had no idea when ho brnggnl to a certain young woman that he had registered in the name of his dead brother that tho Information would go nny further. Hut when Samuel began to puy attention to another young lady well. It was the usual story of a woman scorned. Word reached tho police of Sam's statement and Policeman Thomas I.illcntlial was sent out to Investigate. He found tho registering had lieen done In the name of Anthony (lamba, twenty-tw- o, who, according to tho .n formation given by tho voter, was lorn In Now York nnd was baptised lu St. Anthony's Roman Catholic Church, Sullivan and I'rlnco Streets The policeman at tho church found no record of s,uch a baptism on flic. At tho Hoard of Health ho leurncd Anthony Uamlxi was dead und burled. Then ho arrested Sam on a charge of falsi) registration, which Is a felony. To-da- y in the Centre Street Court, lofnro Magistrate Karl Smith, Sam Pleaded guilty and explained he had Is'en drinking and several of his friends had told him ho would bo within his rights In voting In his brother's name. He wuh held In Isiil of 11,000 for the Orand Jury TMIHU Till VI. Of AllTHl ll C. Itl'ltl'll IS IIKIil'V. IX)H ANGUI.EK, Oct. U4. Taking of testimony was begun y In 'he third trial of Arthur C. Htirch, for tho murder of J. Helton Kennedy A trip was planned to the summer cottago of Kennedy In Hevcrly Glen, where he was slain In the presenco of Madelynno 10 In tho \ out Mrs. in Tho Heights section of was thrown Into shortly after 6 o'clock this by the of a ' burglar In tho homo of Dr. Willi tS'i Fields, No. 67 Willow Street. Scret mis of a maid who had been awakened by tho Intruder aroused scores of ne s, nnd a dozen from the Poplar Strcot Station scoured the for an hour, but to no avail. Dr. Fields occupies a two-stor- y brick houso at the Willow Street ad- dress, A maid who sleeps In a room tho kitchen on the ground floor was by the sound of a tablo being scraped nlong the floor. A mlnuto later a largo man walkefl' Into her room. She let out a piercing scream and tho man retreated and dovo through a kitchen window. Tho camo running from his upstairs room and the pollco station, two Sovcral also phoned the station, and In about three min- utes there \wero twelve on the scene. revealed that tho burglar had climbed the rear fence and Had escaped through the home or William Irish at No. 34 Orange Street. was mlsBlng at tho home ct Dr. Fields. third was the About 9 o'clock members of the lodgo smelted smoko and found the entire first floor was In flames. Thr narrow wns choked with smoke, and It was with that the men fought their way to safety. When notified of the flro tho four girls began calling members of the Flro ' They wero Anna Fallon, nlneloen, and Mary Allen, t \f and Anna Yeagcr o. Camden nnd Helen Seman of Mer Tho flames rapidly were gaining heudwny and tho building with smoko, but tho operutorf continued at their utitl' ull the firemen and the nearby towtK' had been notified. When the first firemen arrived thet fought their way to tho second floo'j''' whero they found Miss Yeager and Miss Hcman overcome by smokiS They carried tho girls out and other flrcmon took them to tho homo of Mrs. Korgan near the hall whero they received first aid. Th.:' other two operators wero ablo to g' to their homes. The lire, which lighted up the sky for mlltis, got beyond control and n call was sent to Camden, from which city was rushed. Two hours after the blar was It was under control 'EM HE IS Man in Jail. James Smith, a lineman, of No. 253 Sixth Street. Iloboken was accused of bigamy by two pretty ynung women before Recorder Car-te- n In Iloboken to-da- y. He waa hold In J2.000 ball for tho Grand Jury. Wife No. 1 waa Maria Handley. of No. 419 Huldwin Ave- nue. Jersey City, whom Smith mar- ried April 1, 1919, In Jersey City They lived together seven months, w(hen they On Aug. 2 last Smith married Miss Charlotte Farley of No. 1107 Madison Street, Iloboken Sho Is Itecently the first wife learned oi Smith's and wrote a letter to him. It was found by the second Mrs. Smith. The arrest fol- lowed. Smith said hn had no but that he \liked them both.\ Piccadilly on a package They're guaranteed. package Claro-Colora- do Claro-Colora- do Intruder Dives Through Window Doctor's House When Discovered. Columbia Brooklyn consider- able excitement morning appearance policemen neighborhood adjoining awakened physician telephoned policemen respond- ing. neighbors policemen Investigation Nothing tolephono exchange. stairway dlfllculty Merchantvllle Volunteer Depart- ment, wenty-thro- s, Moorcstown, chuntvllle. switchboard Toughlll, unassisted apparatus discovered \LIKED BOTH SAY BIGAMIST Wives' Testimony Lands Iloboken telephone twepty-tw- o, separated. twenty-on- e. whereabouts explanation. The friends Little Cigars have made and kept show that they sell their merits. Try today 1 s!a 4 1 9