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Show Page 5 The Bulletin 'ONE OF GOTHAMS WEIRDEST CRIMES STILL UNSOLVED Police Are Unable to Penetrate Mystery Surrounding Triple Murder. New York. One of New York's must Incredible crime mysteries is one year old. It wss Just 12 months ago that old Rdward A. Ridley, eccentric and wealthy real estate dealer of the lower East side, was murdered with his secretary, Lee Weinstein, in their damp and cheer less underground office, 85 feet below crowded Allen street. .In the: year that has passed the police have not been able to penetrate the film of mystery aronnd the case.' It has baffled the best minds of- the police department. They are still baffled today. The Ridley case is really a triple murder mystery. To begin at the beginning one must go back to the crisp day of January 3. 1031. On that day, old Ridley, as he was known to the East side, arrived at his cavelike office at 11:30 a. m., his nsual hour. His secretary, Herman Moench, whom old Ridley had known as man and boy for 50 years, had preceded him to the office as usual. He had left ' a pile of checks on the old mans desk to sign. Finds Secretary Slain. When he finished old Ridley called Moench. There was no answer. Old Ridley's chair creaked, he arose and walked around the thin partition that separated his desk from Muench's. There was Moench. slumped in his chair dead from two bullet wounds In his chest Old Ridley, always taciturn, aloof, always a mao of mystery In his personal life, was deeply shaken He tried not to by the tragedy. show it He said : "My .work must I shall continue at the go on. same old stand snd I shall get a new assistant . . . Death Is not tragedy ; it must come to sll of us." The new assistant to Ridley was Weinstein. Two years later the violent death that he may have suspected was to be his lot came to old Ridley. At two o'clock on the afternoon of May 10, 1933, Joseph Ftduccia. an employes In a garage operated by Lee Weinstein's brother, Harry, In the building above Ripley'e office, ran down the ramp leading to the Ridley subcellar with a message from Harry Weinstein to Lee. One hurried look In Rldley'a office, and Fiduccla ran out, hla face pasty white. He had seen, stretched on the floor, the body of Lee Weinstein. Near the door was tha body of Old Ridley. Weinstein had been shot to death. Several bnllets had been And Hie pumped Into his body. Shota were fired from the same revolver need In the murder of Herman Moench in 1931. Beaten to Death. Old Ridley had not been shot. He had been beaten to death, his skull crushed, his face mutilated, part of hla snow white beard plucked out It had all the earby the roots. marks of a crime motivated by bitter hatred, a crime of revenge. Rid' ley was beaten to death with a heavy oface atooL A will was found among the musty papers in the office. It was dated March 4, 1932. and with its discovery, two accountants, Arthur J. noffnjan and George Goodman, stepped Into the picture. They knew all about the will, which named Lee Weinstein the principal beneficiary to the tune of $200,000. Yes, they knew all about it They knew too much about that will. ThSy knew so much that under police pressure they confessed that It waa a fake, that they helped Weinstein draw it up and also had aided the wily secretary in the systematic theft of more than from Ridley. They were Inlast Occonvicted and dicted, tried tober to terms in Sing Sing. Thus one small tag end of the weird Ridley case was disposed of, 3 - . $2U0,-00- umitUMM! Life Interesting but Never Easy By LEONARD A. BARRETT t) bjr Weatcrn Newspatwr Union. The words of Robert Drowning occur to one as he reads of the retirement of Mr. Bernard M. Ba- ruch from Wall Street. "Grow old me along with The best of life is yet to be. The last of life, for which the first was made: Youth ghowa but half; trust God see all, nor be afraid I" Mr. Baruch at the age of slxty-fou- r leaves the haunts of the greatest financial center In the world Intent upon giving hla entire time to writing. Having selected a quiet site for an office away from the noise and tumult of the frenzied financial district, he plana to write three books, "An Autobiography of an American Boy." The Future of America," and "A Treatise on the Conquest of Nature. While this seems to he a very pretentious undertaking, he states that he will do all the writing himself and not employ expert writers to do the work. These books promise to be a guide aa well as a stimulant to American youth. In a press dispatch, which quotes a personal Interview with the distinguished financier, he says: "Life has always been Interesting, but never easy." Just so. Where life Is easy and there are no hard problems to noire or serious risks to run. It scarcely What can .be called Interesting. gives zest to life and makes ns feel that it Is worth while are the seem lngly Insurmountable obstacles that meet ua In the path of dally toil. Retirement from an active life without very definite objects of service to which one nmy retire is seldom a wise course of action, Many a person loses all Interest in life Itself after the nsual activities of a lifetime have been abandoned. Nothing la more Interesting than man or woman, past the to see three-scor- e years and ten. busily engaged upon a piece of work which challenges all their strength. They truly know the Joy of living. Many persona dream of the day when they shall have nothing to do. They Imagine It to he a state of paradise, when actual experience has proven the contrary. People with nothing to do are always miserable. We do not envy Mr. Baruch his retirement but we do envy his creative ability In having something very definite and Interesting upon which he may devote his energy the remainder of his days. Man Goes to Jail When Hens Go Home to Roosf Curtis, Neb. Earl V. Nelson, of Curtis, was given time by a Judge to meditate in Jail on the fatal In evltabllity of the fact that chickens do come home to roost Suspected of stealing fowls from the Charles Berry farm. Nelson vehemently denied his guilt Curtis officers took the chickens to point midway between the Berry and Nelson farms and released them. The fowls promptly wandered home to the Berry barnyard. Nelson gave up and pleaded guilty. Prospect Illustrates Insurance Mans Talk Radne, Ohio. A listener to an Insurance agents arguments had an unsolldted Illustrated lecture of the benefits of Insurance here recently. While Earl Solt the agent, waa stressing the advantages or protection, his listener. John McClosky, stood poking a fire of waste paper. 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