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perature. a Cloudy and probably unsettled to- day; tomorrow, fair, moderate tem- Official Paper, County of Nassau . - FREEPORT, N. Y., TH DAILY REVIEW ___ LONG ISLAND'S GREATEST NEWSPAPER URSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1922 THE DAILY REVIEW 2 C At Your News Stand 'or Delivered At Your Home Vol. XXV, No. 221 CRE HEMPSTEAD WAR MEMORIAL; HANDSOME GRANITE SHAFT Monument, Which Will Cost $4,500, Will Be Erect- ed in Fulton Park in Place of Fountain, Which Will Be Moved To Another Section of Park- Will Be Completed in Three Months Hemp has 21.-The Committee Hempstead, . Sept. stead War Memorial presented to the Village Board, its plans memorial, which it is pro- posed to erect in Fulton Park. . \Whe plan as outlined was accepted by the Board, which commended the committee for its efforts and permission was given to erect it in the park. 'The memorial will be located where the fountain now stands, the fountain to be_removed to another part of the park, It will be a granite shaft, 34 feet high, surmounted by an eagle with spread wings, standing on a ball. base will be 7x7 feet and will be sur- rounded 'by suitable foliage. On the face of the base of the monument will , be & bronge tublet on which will be in- weybed the names of the men and wo- m who died in the. service of the cbuntry during the World War, The sketch presented shows a handsome and imposing: monument. 'the eost of the monument will be mhout $4,500 and it will take fbolit 'three months to make.and erect it, The contract has 'been awarded to George B. Gardner of Hempstead. The Members of the committee who appeared before the Board were Charles W. Carman, chairman, who was the for a war 'The |* L. Powers. daylight saving. will end on Sunday, Complaints of neighbors about noise in and about the Belmont restaurant were referred to the chief of police and the health officer. Dr. Smith A. Combs, health officer, reported four deaths and nine births during the past month, An estimate was received for the in- stailation of a fuel ofl burning equip- ment in the heater in the village build- ing. The agnount was $1,420. Action was defenred. To Sell Bonds The Board decided to advertise for the sale of $15,000 village water works bonds, voted by the people at the last election, to be opened on October 16. The bonds will begin to mature in three years and will be paid off at the rate of $2,000 a year until the last, which will be $1,000. The Board decided to have a con- _erete apron laid at the corner of Front 'and Bell streets, «at an estinfated cont of $275. ’ ® Notice was ordered served on owner of property who have allowed grass and weeds to grow along side of the side- walks that they must be cut, and sev- eral additional lights were ordered on Cathedral avenue, where new houses spekesman; J. T. P. Calkins, Howard S. Brewer, Arthur L. Nichols, T. J. Mc- are being erected, after which the Board adjourned. ieee PARKING STANDS FIXED BY NEW TRAFFIC RULES IN EFFECT OCTOBER 1 Rockville Centre, Sept. 21.-Parking regulations to become operative in this village Oct. 1, and contemplated in re- cent ordinance enactment by the vit lage board, were approved last night in the board meeting as mapped out by Police'Captain Bacon, 'The ordinances provide parking stands and desig- nate restricted. areas. Under the new. management, the parking stand privileges will be permit- ted in «he center of Observer street, be- \ tween Park and Village avenues, in Front street, between Clinton and Park avenues and in Observer street, on the parking restriction in front of the post- office relates to the time (previous to 7 o'clock at night. - Police signs which shall, constitute public attraction to 'the rules will Le Placed for public Instruction of motor- ists and the police, through Captain Bacon will be Instryeted to execute the orders. 'The ordinance regulates afd makes Imperative, also more stringent observance of the rules as to the turn- Ing of motor vehicles. with specified block areas. These new regulations are, the first to be Included in readjusted traffic regu- Laughlin, F. W. Olmstead and William Attention was called to the fact that MALVERN VOTE IS SEPT. 3 ON - DISSOLUTION Petition of Residents Who Wish Divorce From Incorporated Vi!- lage Creates Big Interest-Dis- sention Said To Be Due To Tax Burden Maiverne, Sept. 21.-The village board has fixed September 29 as the date of the special meeting here to act on the proposition of certain petitioners who desire dissolution of the incorpo- rated village. 'The pols will be open four hours, beginning at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Widespread interest is being aroused throughout the village in the petition and it is expected that the proposition to disestablish the incorporated rights will meet with a lively contest. 'The proposal was put before officials of the village board at a recent meeting. It caused much comment. Petitioners as- sert that about the only privileges they derive from the corporate rights are in the payment of taxes. Twenty five signed the petition, it is stated. Dissolution .of the incorporated Tights, ms vested in the original forma- tion, requires a two-thirds total of ail qualified voters who are property own- ers, 'There is much speculation as to the outcome and the campaign is al- ready. taking haps. to Andicate that the proposal will be stubborfily fought. TRY TRICKS SAY COAL DEALERS Village Board in Rockville Centre Hears That Customers Hinder Distribution-One Carload Just Arrived Is Sole Supply-To- day's Price $15.50 Rockville Centre, Sept. 21.-Informal consideration of the coal sugply prob. lem in Rockville Centre featured a few minutes of the village board meeting here last night when a suggestion was made that the board members might co- operate with the dealers in the plans of distribution. « It became known in the meeting thatr mumerous local householders are seek» ing to place duplications of-orders with the local dealers, Dealers teday, how- ever, 'declined to say to what extent this is practiced. They admit that cus: tomers of one dealer seek to place orders with the others. 'The dealers Moto will- speedily 6 Akin- Welsh-mm such orders, they as- ilar \with the. new. conditions. parted inday, eohing first to supply. the needs of their own. customers. c One.carload of coal, the first to reach « u Rockville Centre in four fnonthis, got in \TICKET OFFICE WILL yesterday, consigned to G. D. Comper REMAIN WHERE IT is Estate. 'This ls said to be the only north sides of the présent parking places. The regulations will forbid the park» Ing of cars within 30-feet of the inter: séction of Merrick, road, Lincoln . ave- nue and Centre avenue andin front of the postofficé, <also In front of the Strand theatre in Observer street, The lationa which have been a subject for atudy for the last few weeks. -The or- dinance gives the village board the pow- er at any time by' resolution tomake such regulations as may be deemed for the public safety. It is expected 'that VICTIM AND LOVER CHARGED WITH HER MURDER SY GUILTY, SAYS EDWARDS CONTRACT IS AWARDED FOR -f TAKING TESTIMONY BEGINS IN CASE OF ALLEGED SLAYER Assistant District Attorney, Opening Case For the State, Declares Creasy Is the Only Person Who Could Have Shot Miss Lavoy and the Only Person Who Had a Motive--Twelfth Juror Secured This Morning been never marrled before when as The Jury Sitting in Judgment On ||a mutter of fact the worst und most William Creasy, Indicted for Murder damnable lie of them all was he was William H. O'Brien, Lynbrook then married and could not marry any William H. Barlow, Sea. Cliff woman in the world and can not today, William E. Kunz, Hicksville \We will show that on the night of Willard G. Hensler, Lawrence the murder Cre was lef alone in John VanOpstal, Hempstead the room. after Miss: Mildred Simser Henry A. Grows, Great Neck came in after hearing the revolver shot Clinton Donaldson, Freeport and that he changed the position in her George Workmhster, East Williston MOM®Dtary absence from a position Henry Kramer, Farmingdale that indictated the girl had been shot Benjamin Adler, Lynbrook by some other than herself to another Henry Rosenbaum, Sea CHI position \We will show you that the girl was In fear that Creamy would do himself bodily harm as well as harm her and William A, Seaman, Woodmere (Special to The Daily Review) that several of her school teacher Mineola, fept. 21.-The trial of Wil: friends made arrangements not to leave lian Creasy indicted for the murder of on Thursday and particular ; , ly Priday, on the night of which day Miss Edith Lavoy, the Freeport School she met her death. but that she was teacher who was shot and killed on the [left alone with him and the result is that sho is dond, \We will show you that he protested night of June , in her boarding house In Freeport really got under way just before noun today when the twelch | that he loved her while she lay there Juror was secured after three days' of on the couch, her body still warm, fort and after a panel of 150 Jurors had while later he east the most common been practically exhausted The reflection against her character, to the twelfth. juror is William A, Seaman of [injury of her reputation, apparently Woodmere and he was sutisfactory to to see if he could make people think both sides. whe was a common woman that the Both District Attorney \Charles R. authorities would not be so much in- Weeks and Henry A Uterhart attorney | terested in the matter of her death, for the defendant have exercised (he but fortunately through the alertness greatest care in selection of the jurors of i fingerprint expert, Charles W. Han and in this they have had the best a« son, fingerprints were found to the best sistance of Judge Lewis J. Smith who | testimony; that his line of reflections Is sitting in his first capital punish were unfounded in every way ment case \We will show you that although Assistant District Aitorney Elvin N mars . the pile of letters received by Edward#Fopening the case for the state him, all comin from women from ev- this morning, gave the impression from ery part of (in country. he seldom had Miss Edith Lavoy and William (Creasy seated on what the State calls the death tis opening remarks that the State is them come from the sick litte child couch at the North Main Street boarding house very confident that they have a stron; [wife that he hed in the mountaina of _ case against Creasy and Mr. Edward West Virginia; that after bearing him maid that he expects that the min wil [wo children, is now only years old be convicted of the murder of the schoo' When we are nll through if all reason« teacher. He said in his opening, tha [ible men are not convineed that this Edith Lavoy was killed and that it was man committed the crime as charged In done at a time when she was alone in the indictment as well as you. gentle- the room with William Creasy. men of the jury, then 1 will be a much ® Declares Creaay Guilty surprised proscentins officer 9 5 9 The Asslatant District Attorney: said Assistant District Attorney: Edwarda in part: \We will show you by evidence went on to establish the motive for of the most convincing sort that she [the shooting n« jealous rage and then did not shoot herself; that the wound he desvribed how Creasy came from COST IN ROCKVILLE CENTRE Village Board Hears From Committee Named To Investigate Problem and May Call Taxpayers In Mass Meeting Soon-Subject Due For Vil- was not self inflicted; that the revolves belonged to William Creasy that it had been brought by: him from Bellevue Kentucky, We will show you that he is the only person who could have shot a motive to shoot her. \We will show you by most positive evidence that she had no reason to kill herself. her by joining with a standard cortes this girl and the one person who had We will show you that he met pondence and matrimonial club which woes Mineola, Sept. #1.--More Democrats = \took itn Interest in the Second Anmem< biy District, 'of Nassau County, in the Lprimary on Tuesday than most people \thought existed sind came out in MW J. Deasy, of Chen: and Perdy .. Stoddard, of Oyster Bay for Democratic state com mittemiian. *> ) Mr. Deasy won by- a comfortable mar- gin but he is the present committeeman and Mr. Stoddard made & Tun againet » night RaW is «eppoting IN FREEPORT'-PETERS Freeport, Sept. 1.-Setting at rest reports regarding\ the transfer of its tloket 'office 'here to- the opposite mldé pt the track, Ralph Peters of tha Long: Island Railroad, 'In .a letter to The Review. says (he report de er- roncous. 'There are\ no 'plank in that direction.. he i N Minor-mmnany as. to intention .of Ing. the roud to Freeport said such plans are in- definite. atk & 8 MIKADO RESTAURANT TO OPEN DANCE FL NOW #1.-The Mikado; will open lage Wide Study, Trustees Say Rockville Centre, Sept., 21.-Offcialfin all its angles. Board members did cognizance was again taken last night not infer from the committee report _| that the committee members meant to off the project to entablish a sewer ayn put the project up to the voters before tem in theVillage of Rockville Centre furthur investigation of the problem in when the village board members made its many angles, public a message filed by a committee Following the reading of the report, which reported faworably in the mat- the trustees gave the subject brief dis- ter, cussion in. which unanimous feeling According to the committe's estimate, | was expressed that board action should the cont, together with the disposal be deferred, pending on expression of plant, -will beabout $800,000, The com the public mind, It was conceded that mittée makesknown its belief that the :the installation of a sewer system is time han arrived when | the | village | needed in the village but the complicat« should take some action: In the' con- | ed phases involved, the board members templated installation of m-sewer syn |feel Justifed a decision to study the tem and advises a. special -meeting for | problem in 'its entirely. , public dircumsion 'of 'the subject. Informal comment: by, village mem- Dr. -D. N. Bulson in: the chairman of | bers, in which Dr, Arthur D. Jacques, the committee: which ment the mensuge officer took part, revealed much to. the board. | Others on the committee | of the need of providing mewer facilition «wre L. Murphy, Clarence R. in the vlago.. Dr, Jacques sugested Ankers, Frank P. Baylis, George G. A. | the advimability, before the village pro- Combes and Edwin: W. Wallace. 'Vil- ceeded far, of inviting the advice of 'the Yage President David M. Longencoker, after, reading the message from . the comunitiée, suggested the. wirdem 'of a |of, Wir willingnems to anaist: them in public discussion cof the question and | everyway. # his colleagues In his. It in katy, according to the board Tt Is «progumed 'm. public maeting of may be decided on, supply now in the custody of & local dealer, Village board. members last night took ino-action on the local con- dition. Combes' price, quoted thi matu- Ing, was $15.50 a ton, about one dollar |figher than before the trike. It in apparent that while members. ot the village board may not participate in any offcial inspection of customer lists of the local dealers they may have a hope that consumers discontinue 'the practice of «trying to. duplicate con) ordera.. 'The dedlers have much effort In finding. the: supply covering their own orders.. One dealer today admitted being '600 tons short on coal already ordered by the retail trade. No official 'suggestions have come from the state adrsinia' but deal- ara here are making all\ sparingly -and in keeping with what they capsider fair apportionment, it was saidtoday.» i ho ROCKVILLE CENTRE NEW YORK MAN'S BRIDE Rockville Centra, churoh afternoon at 4 o'cigck the ot Altred Rinaldi of New \York oity and Miss: Helen Setemony was am organization ip which men paid $6, sent their pictures and pretended to be good prompects for lonely girls Calls Her Foolish Little Girl \Mima Lavoy was one of the foolish little girls that answered Creasy's ad- vertisement or statement. She war a country girl and was carried by Cremmy's sailor uniform and his own recommendation of himself, She was pretty and well developed, an Amer Jcan girl, 20 years old, just out -of col: lege when this man with: his Blue Ridge Mountain stuff and representa tioma .that he wag a steel car builder attracted her foolih romantic welf \Miss Lavoy was noted for her hap py disposition even to the point where her friends called her 'sunshine' while the defendant was ten years older than abe. t + * \There is no doubt that this girl fell mn Catholle A fhat whia the viMagors would no mm- the benefits. of a sewer |NIWht to the village board, was without avstam, , the «won. with a com- an wiltea report favoring it iw remote be- amie of the need to windy the jroblam Kentucky to Freeport to see the little wchoo! teacher and how he was alone with her in the room in the Smith boarding house in Main street on the night the girl was shot, Mr. Edwards said Creasy described the scene as the two of them lying on a couch, the girl was lying on her right side, his face under hers and her cheek on his, according to Creasy. He sald mecording to the prosecutor that his right hand was under the or under his head, that he didn't remember which; that he was dozing when the shot was fired; that he hadn't seen the revolver then, that it had been in him pocket and he presumed Miss Lavoy got It when she got up to get him m drink of water. Mr. Edwards called attention to the fact that the position of the body had been changed from the time when Misa Simser came into the room until it waa next seen by permons she called, and that Mias Lavoy'® clothing then was straightened out and was not dishey- eled, as Creasy apparently described. \I do not know why she should do It., She was happy and there was no reason why she should kill herself,\ Ed- wards quoted Creasy as saying when he was asked why she shot herself, and then, recording to the prosecutor, Crea» sy in the room where the girl was shot, bowed his head in his folded handker chief and apparently cried. But wa will show you through meveral witnem- ss that he was dried eyed that did not shed a tear'' declared Mr. Edwards . When the Assistant Prosecutor came to that part of Creary's alleged state» ment following the shooting in which he had first wald that be had had intl. mate relations with Edith Lavoy, Attor: ney Uterhart jumped . to his feet and made objection to the 're- marka of the counsel before the fury and maked Judge Smith: iq rule That they be cromed out. The court over vated Mr. Uterbart Then Mr. Edwards continued swying that the broken engmgement had noth- ing to do with ahy intimate relations (Continued on page twol smace. len athe mil an t m__ a scn dl ts OF FREEPORT SCHOOL TEACHER *
