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4700 !Jto 5 for for all I sets and rs! and gum- price $750. and gu m- prke 'emer and prke Chines. rice $2,605. longue; oveTEd chaiB. ' elY Buildin, o witli patterns You have dream. ew Buildinr prices are range. $139 ew Buildini Sanitl Test If He Defends Policeman PROSECUTOR TO REPLY WITH STATE ALIEN Pratt, Victim of Murder for- ·$4,700 Pay Roll The at .. t. in It. attempt to push \ Pa.trol!I)an Daniel J. Graham toward thel'nt;'H;'Jo\~,\ SELRET OF FLIGHT .l/lctl'lc chair today taced the possible ----~ obstacle ot an Insanity plea on behaU The freedom Harry Nelson gained ot the accused murderer. two weeks age by as Ingenlons a bIt of Thomas O. McDonald. attorney. ot 320 skulldnggery as ,Sing Sing Prison offl- Broadway, who was asked by cl,,1$ eve\ saw co.me to an end thls to defend him, has not yet decided to morning In Brooklyn. , taKe the case, bnt he said It he does As he was entering his apartment at Lifted to Tug, Unconscious for Hour-Two More Ready for Try take It he will ask tor··the appolnt- 82 Fourth Place·\t 2:3Q A. Nelson By RAYMOND G. SWING ment ot a lunacy commisslbn to test the was grabb~d on one side by Evening Post Foreign /'iervice patrOlman's sa.nlty. anll on the other by COput/pllt. 19$1. by N. Y. B.enlng Post.!\ •• Graham, wjlo was Indicted yesterday, Winter ~r East 126th Street ~tatlon. London, Aug. 30.-1.11 except one ot :IIfty hours $ttel' the murder and reb- Son\.ebody had \sqnealed but the the swllilnlers, four of them women, bery of JU:dson 1I. Pntt, construction police aren't saying who. who were attempting to swim the Eng- company engineer, was under guard Nel$on was free oC Sing Sing fifteen lish Channel today, were forced to quit today !!l tho Tombs to prevent .. ny pos- days, a.nd he earned that freedom by before noon. Miss Mona Mao Lellan, ell)le sUicide attempt. Tomorrow he I tblrty hou:rs spent with his companion, physician swimming under wlll appear before Judge Allen In Gen- ! Josepll Shedosky, at the bottom of a der tile name of Dr. Dorothy Coch\j}ne eral Sessions to plead to the Indict- I hole th.ey d\\g under the Iron 'tence on Logan, waa far out on her ~ttempt and ment. I the Hndson River side Of the Instltu- still was going strongly, according to Mr. McDonald, who talked to Graham tlon, by ~ tour-hour swim 111 the river r~ports this afternoon. All starteli their yesterday villl}e the Gl'and Jury was and lly II lucky encounter with a dritt. attempts from. Cape Grls Nez, France. ~. hearing the wItnesses ag .. lnst him, said ing rowboat. . Miss Hilda Harding ot H~ve, nineteen, • that if he decides to defend the pa- Disappearance of the two men caused nearly lost her life In a gallant attempt , trolman, he will ask tomorrow for time considerable dlsm .. y at the prison. The to beat the treacherous waterwaY. With In which to make motlo!>s. authorities gave out that the pllir had her mother gravely III in C~nat!a and .Ii:' The lIrst of these wlll be a motion not shown up at the trequent checks ilel1evlng that news ot her success would ., • to Inspect the minutes at the Grand on Inraates, but everyone was conll. give her parent a tonic no medicine ;, I Jury. It this 18 refused, e.s In all prob-. <:lent tbey were somewhere within the could provide, Miss Hilda struggled , . -' t r \ I ability It will be, he will m.ove tor the walls. 1_ against the tides until completely ex· appOintment of the lunacy COmmission. hausted. i'1JiIt. Xi this motion is grantod, Dr. Otto A. Dodged Guards and Lights Jabe21 wour, veteran 't1jlannel expert, Schultz. alienist attached to the, Dis- It was considered Imp8!;sible tl!at the who accompanied Miss HArtUng, pull~d trlct Attorney's office, will represent men h.ad got 'out, tor guards her trom the wlo.ves at 01,:30 o'clock, a8- the 8tate at all .,,-..mlnatlons of Gra· everywhere and, during the night. that she would have perished ham by the commission. lIoodllghtIJ blazoned the rIver side or remained in the water any 'ro Fight Inslllllty Plea the poson. tbe only one on which As It was,-sho remained Ul\con· escape Il€~el\· even remo~ly poSSible, an hour before she coul(l be At P(ll1c~ ,HeadI{!1Rrter~, on the tug. Mise HBrtlU!( reo Nelson was taken tor que,tloning, thill in tbe w~r ~ev\n anI! Qp.~·lii~ verslOlt of the escapo Wall givpn. out: 'l'Iiikln'g advalitltg6.\' fft 'every tunlty ,thll.t oltered Nelson .. nd bls comp,mon scraped oUt the hole under tl1e fence. August 15 they crawlecl 'nto It; pulling rocks over the entrance. With them they had a loat or bread and a bottle of water. him Insane. For thirty hours they didn't \I hope to have him brought to trial move. 'I'hen, at night, they made within two weekI>. It be Is Innocen1:, I I way to the rivef'. sncceedlng in see no reason why his attorneys should dangerous' exploit despite the tact that not Wish to have him go to trial at special gUtl:rds had -been posted. once. 1 wlll oppose any attempt. to For four hours they IIwam, and duro delay tile cas .. and If possible I will Ing thM pretty well lost all knowledge prosecute it mysel!.\ of where they were. Nelson bumpeli A .. !stant District Attorney Pasco cello againe~ .O' tlmpty rowboat jUl!t as they questioned wltne.ses today in an effort were tiring. to account for the part ot the proceeds I Seen by Night Boat ot the robbery. which has not yet been traced. 'tRJy Is Eyewitness He dlscloseli the fact that tile State's Bingle eyewitness to the murder Is Jo- seph Altano, eight. of 412 EMt Forty. lecond Street. one ot the two boys who I&W Graham In Pratt's automobile. WhUe lie Is In the Tombs awaiting the speedy trial which Mr. Pecora has promised, Gl'aham wll1 be under obeery-atlon by Dr, Perry M. Llchten- ·,tein, the Tombs physician. Thoy ripped up the seats In the boat to obta.ln paddles. As they were mak- Ing tor sllore a Hudson River night boat came along. A watchman on the boat Sighted them and a searchlight was throw~ 011 tllem, but no one interfered. Within a sl10rt time they were sa.fe on the Jersey shore. The men separated In Hoboken. About three days ago Nelson showed up at bls former home In Brooklyn and the police heard about hlln. He was serving a seven·year term for Sulllv= law violation. At Headquar- ters It was snld Nelson, previous to his last conviction before Judge Allen, had been sentellce<i to Elmira. Sbedosky was i1t Sing 8mg for ten years. having been convicted 'Ill! grant! larceny in Queens. \ Graham. spent last night In un· troubled sleep wb1le three guards In· .tead ot the customary two paced the alxth tier on which his ~el1 Is located. 'rhey hali orders to wale', him closely, for If he contemplates trulolde the aheets Of his bed provide a. handy noose. Graham has no cell mate, and he reo fused to see anyone. \I want to be let aJone,\ he told his Manscleli between Head Peeper Ryan ant! al~ assistant trom Sing Sing Prison, Nelson was staded on the return trip to that Institution shortly after noon. o'clock last night and had covered ten miles late tllis morning. A year ago she made 1m unsucce..,tul attempt to cross the Channel. TWo other young women, UndaUnted by the failure ot the other AspIrants, were planning to brave tile waterway later in the day. OLD GLORY TO HOP THIS AFTERNOON AS SKIES ClEAR to West TWO PILOTS SNATCH NAP AS FOOD IS PUT ABOARD Soggy Field Dried Out by Fires to Help Heavy Machine~ to. Rise Fans Turn Bitterly to Forgotten Art of Reading as Lock CHeater River Baltimore, Aug, 30 (A».-A huge waterspout. its top hidden tn ... dark cloud, hurtle<i across Chesapeake Bay frpm the mouth ot the Ma-gathy to the mouth ot the Cllester River YMterday, returning excursionists laat nIght re- ported. Dozens ~t people crowded the excur- 'slon steamboa.t Oamnrlage, moored at a Cheater River pier, as the t1'{lstlng. writhing funnel appeared several mUM away, \wept on and In ten minutes disintegrated 'In a smother of muddy foam close by. The spont narrowly mlal!ed striking a skiff and a schoOnel' anchored in the .mouth .ot Cheater. Ohlet Engineer> Walker ot the C&lIlbr1<\ge l sald this was the first spout' he had seen in the Chl!llapeake during maA!y years' expedence. By \ St~1f Cor,..spondent Roosevelt Field, L. Y., Aug. aO.-Old Glory, the Fokker monoplane. will join th e~erl\'l procession across the At- lIight to Rome would be sate. As soon as they reach this deolslon they went to the Gal'den City Hotel to snatoh two hours' aleep whll~ mechanics be- gan packing food In tile monoplane at the top ot the runway. Atter weeks ot wa.itlng weather con- dltlons turned In favol' ot the flyers to- Flying, Llquol' and Suicidal Ten- dencies Blamed as 67 Persona Are Committed in Week Aviation I. assuming prominence 1\8 & cause of insanity. In the report on $tatl.~IC8 for New York County. I\led In the Gounty Olerk's ol!lcc today. f1yjng, IIq\\or and suicidal tendencies arel list- ed 1\8 the \l'revaUing oauses\ of the ma- l<\1'lty of an unprecedented. number ot c~ses, LlISt week twenty·live women a11d !o.ty.two men were committed to In- stitutions by Supreme Court Justices Peters and Frankenth ... ler. This Is e. record for the county, Hitherto com- mitments, have averaged about thirty 11 week. ORLD FLYERS STOP AT BELGRADE TO REST; LEVINE HAS NEW PILOr· Picks Hinchcliffe From Fifty Airmen Bidding for Return Trip WIFE PAYS DROUHIN, CLOSING THEIR DEAL French Ace Talks of Flight With American Girl-Levine to Start Sea Hop Soon Evening Post Foreign Service IS SET FOR TODA SOPHIE STAR -TS CHIMNEY Dublin. Aug. 30 ~).-Oaptaln Robert Ma~lntosh, tormer' Imperial Alrw~ys pilot, Is expeoted to arrive at the Mill Tucker Pays $50 10r Package lIaldonnel Field tomorrow preparatory Containing Two Brick.. to starting hiS attempted filght to Ell a Stah Corresponi/ent Amerlcn. The Ilop·off wlll be made Clllcago, Aug. 30.-Ha, ba, l'ract.lcnl either Crom Baldonrtel or Phoenix ParI':. jokers In New York expressed C. O. D., Captain Macintosh, who Is twenty- a heavy package to Sophie Tucker, the nine, hat! war flying experience In· actr~ss WhO Is appearing here, lind she France. H'e will uee a Fokker l>assel1g~r paid $50 to get It from the express plano of the type now employed In the ,oompany today. It turned out to be a I air service between London and Amster· oouple of brIcks. dam. motor tow,,~ Finish of Another Leg in Dash Around Globe Will Crown Turkish Air Celebration Both men made a very goocl 1mprea- ; slon during their brier stay m tl+a Ba· varla.n capital, 'I'hey el<ptessed their (ColltlnuecZ on Page SelJ~n.)
