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Show t . V The Bulletin 1DYLUC romance Sen, Ls:i in Mexican flzvclt, TURNS OUT TO BE Jains Mother. SORDID AFFAIR A than Poetess Turned Over to Relative While U. S. Holds Prince. New York. Louise Krlst, poetess and iiiusUIhu, whose dlsapiiearance from her home a little over a month ago created a furore In New York's Greenwich village, has been released from the Florence Crittendou home Tor Wayward minors and given over to the custody of an unidentified aunt. With her grand poetic passion 'for the "Prince" Clillde de Ito- d'llarcourt ierceptlhly chilled, dse has agreed to certain e Ohan was asked to make. The s case cume np again recently snd she ngaln refused to sign a complaint of seduction against the prince" with whom she lived for 13 days while city, state and federal authorities were looking fur white slavers and kidnapers. Magistrate Jonas Goldstein, In postponing the case Indefinitely. declared that the problem of the girl's Infatuation Is not one for a crim' inal court. The magistrate said that psychiatrists had examined the girl and had reached the same conclusion us the court tliat a great deal of harm and no good would follow if the defendant were sent to a reformatory. Prince Is Held. Meanwhile the prince" is a pris oner on GUIs Island where he will be tried shortly on charges of ' having violated the Immigration luws. The prince" contends the title he carries Is merely a nickname, and that be Is really a native of Oklahoma. The spotlight was turned on the Idyllic romance of the pair when they were picked up by the police on the lower Hast side after haring been recognized by a restaurant proprietor. At the time they carried a fortune of $1.88. Of this sum 4 cents nestled in the pockets of the prince's" royal raiment while Rosebud, as her parents call her, possessed the rest. Their luggage consisted of a yel-- ' low leather brief case which they used when they registered at various hotels. It contained no bridal finery, but the nucleus of a 123.000-wornovel. Instead of Initials It was marked with mystic daubs of gold paint. Crashed the Meetl.ig. D'llarcourt, who Is forty-siyears old, had been dictating this terrifying tome to Rosebud ever since that mystic night when thej fled together frohi the Itaven Poetry circle meeting In the precincts, of Greenwich ' village. Among those present while the Ravens croaked their poems were Miss Jane O'Ryan, sister of Police Commissioner John F. O'Ryan, and Vincent Beltrone, a Fascist editor, who pleaded with Rosebud not to heed the wiles of the prince," who hadn't been invited, and crashed the meeting anyway. Until dawn D'llarcourt and Louise walked Manhattan's streets. The next night the prince" and his monumental love" registered at the Hotel America. Two nights later they stayed at the Hotel Margaret Their third rendezvous was the Hotel Byron. After that they were visiting friends." The count," us he Is known to habitues of the village, and Lonise were haied into the West Side court after their apprehension. The former, whose previous adventures range from burglary, attempted extortion, and wife beating, down to poetry and mysticism, was arraigned on suspicion of seduction aud his paramour was charged with : being a wayward minor. D'Harcourt was later released when Louise, denied th At she had been seduced during their Idyll aud that she and the count" were going to be married. Ho was subsequently arrested on; a warrant Issued by the Department of Labor charging him with violation of the , Immigration laws, clgi.t-een-year-u- prom-(wsli- . d x . 18-da- y Hollywood. story stranger fiction, of a boy who was lured friun l be home of Ids aristocratic parent in Mexico City In the bloody days of the Madera revolution, and alto came hack from the dead" to be reunited with hla widowed mother and a sister here, has come to light. The boy Is now a man Janies soldier and adBrophy, thirty-fouventurer. The mother, who has been an Invalid for years, Is 11m Esinerald; IL de Brophy, who lives with te. Mr. a daughters and Mrs. J. K. I,eahy. An Incredible twist of fortune brought about the reunion. Recently Mrs De Brophy went to the Home Owners' Loan corporation to refinance her home. There she met Rudolph W. Blanchard, and told him her story. Hive you a son. James Brophy'" Blanchard asked suddenly. Turning pale, the aged mother r, son-in-la- said: Nol I had a son of that name been dead for 'JO years." but be has Furl tier Blanchard known as questioning convinced a young man he had a worker In a organization7 ' was Indeed Mrs. lie Brophy's son. Blanchard and Mime friends took James Brophy to the mother's Latla-America- n home. There, amid tears aud exclamations. the remnants of a family that had suffered the terrors of the revolution. wore 'United. At first Brophy did not know his mother and sister. He had changed greutly, too, since lie had left his home that day In RM4. Rut soon hls Identity was established. Shock, such as might lie caused by a ghost materializing, prostrated Mrs. He Brophy. But she said happiness would restore her. During the Madera revolution, bnya were lured Into the armies hr men who received eo much a head Just like cattle for each recruit they brought In. Athongli only fourteen at the time, James Brophy was taken by one of these men. fitted with a uniform and placed in the ranks. After a long search failed to reveal any trace of him, the family gave him np for dead.. Boy Testing Resistance to Strangling Is Dead ' Fort Wayne. Death by hanging boy here was attributed to a weird suicide club" whose object was to determine button. Apparently overestimating his en- durance, the boy, Howard Shelley. Jr, died at the end of a roie in the basement of his home. Hls parents were unable to explain the mysterious death until the youth's brolber-ln-law- . lx J. Nadeau, of Kalamazoo, Mich., revealed the se- of a sixteen-year-ol- d cret fraternity. It was made up of Iloward and several other boys who read In a detective story book how s man resisted hanging eighteen hnd times," Nadeau said. This theory was strengthened when a Turkish towel was discovered around the dead youths head. Nadeau said Howard had told him the club hail rend that If a towel was colled beneath the rope one probably could resist strangulation Indefinitely." During other meetings of the dub. at which testa" were, conducted, youths were cut down fl er they became unconscious, Nadeau said. Howard, however, apparently was alone at the. time of his death. An earthen crock upon which he had stood to reach a rafter was nearby. Babylonian Brick Found brick, Washington. A which 2JW0 years ago helped support the walls of Babylon, has been obtained by Rev. Milton Bennett UmlKlin, archeologist. It Is believed to be the only relic of Its Knd to AtueiJc. d TEXAS RANGER IS MOST FEARED 07 OUTLAW HUNTERS PLAN FAKE MURDERS TO MULCT VICTIMS Trisa to Aid Crash Victim; Is Killed Urrybull, Wyo. William Baker of Basin, Wym, was only slightly bruised a. ter crashing Into a pole supporting a high tension wire, but I It. James. Greybull business man. who stnpid by the wrecked car to help, was killed, James came In contact with the sire, which hnd been sheared off by the Impact. He was rushed to a hospital here aud died a few minutes Inter. Operations cf Gotham Ring Highly Specialized. Austin, Texas. The fame , of Wyatt Harp, known as the deadNew York. The latest bizarre liest frontier marshal lu the days to find the Ht light lu New gang of the old Southwest. is now threat- i York resulted In the capture of has rival. ened with eclipse by a modern two women, accused meu ten and He Is t'apt. F.'auk Hamer of the an extortion ring of iMruilng Texas ruugera. fake murder, badger through Although hu Is known over, the framed ajaulta, aud similar games, he liecauae wiped country chiefly rackets. The ring la credited with out Clyde Bnrruw and Bonnie having mulcted Its uutueruus vicBarker, notorious outlaws, Captain tims of at least flOU.OUU within the Hainer Is recognized In. hls home DYING CHARGE KEY last year. state as the greatest muu hunter DOCTORS FATE The TO general procedure of the the rangers have ever hud. He'e gang, police charge, was to lure mu been "in at the death" of 5.1 outIntended victim lutu position laws, and on bis own pistol are 17 Hieh Court to Ponder Death-be- d where he would feel compromised, notches, not counting Mexicans. Accusation. and then to demand money before In many ways, though not physhim to go free. So they ically, Captain Hamer resembles Miss. With the fate Ingeniously did they carry nut their Greenwood, the old frontier marshal, Wyatt of Dr. Saru Ruth Dean resting in schemes, according to police, that , Harp. Captain Hamer la a big man, the hands of the Supreme Court of iu one lustance when a victim re- j standing 0 feet 4 Inches in hls Mississippi, the question of whether fused, to believe that n murder' boots and weighing over 200 pounds. the will bad been committed be wm taken go free or spend the remainWyatt Harp was 8 Inches shorter ing years of her life iu prison into a room, where he was shown and' 60 puiinds lighter. But both binges on a single (mint the dying the supitosediy murdered man rehave the same disposition. declaration of the man she stands posing In a coffin, with floral pieces Avolda Publicity. convicted of killing with a poisoned and other funeral paraphernalia Earp never fought unless he had whisky highball. about. to; neither does Captain Hamer. The extortion charges against If the court finds that Supreme Both are renowned for their avoid- this dying declaration is to and I'errone. two of the Nicola Incompeance of publiclly. Harp wore dark tent then. In the words of the trial gang. Hre based on a complaint by clothes and never adorned hla per Judge himself, the state has no cum Dominick Zerhonla of Gorans, who son with the colored bandanas end and the prisoner will go free, prob- said he was taken for $2,i0 In the fake murder racket. On Marcn 27. fancy vests of Hie old Weak without .another trial. ably Hamer dresses like a Texas Dr. J. Brest on Kennedy, the young bis complaint charges, tile two men business mum ' went with him to a cafe at Stanwoman doctor's associate aud But both are noted for having purportedly told his two broth- ton and Christie street and while their guns always ready for action. ers' and a physician that Itoctor they were there a quarrel broke out. Typical of the cool, quiet, thoroug- Dean 'gave 1:1m bichloride of mer- during which an unidentified mau( methods employed by cury in a h-going He died was shot. whisky highball. was his hunt of two llatuer 1'olice say that the revolver fired Captain later. days Clyde. Barrow and hls- cigar smoklit spite of the strenuous efforts In the cafe was loaded with blanks ing girl friend, Ronnie Barker. The to exclude Ibis evidence from IKc-tu- r and that the stain which appeared on tin shirt of the "victim" was search started when Barrow killed I tea u's. trial last March It was hls tenth and eleventh victims.-- two perhiitteiLV It looked realistic, howketchup. ever, and Zerbonla wa thoroughly highway troopers, near Graevlne. The question of the admissibility The order were : Iton't of this evidence Is one on which the scared when hla two companions acTexas. come back until you have the pair, trial Judge hlntself. Dr. S. F. Davis, cused him of the shooting before dead or alive." . j did not pare to rule at the recent two fake detectives and a fake ama few bulance surgeon who arrived With three other' rangers, he hearing: . , ' murthe later. minutes After started to run down every tip ps was Itoctor Dean convicted of celved about Barrow. They led him marder and given a life sentence der" victim bad been carried our, through Texas and Oklahoma, north following a hard fought, five weeks' Zerbonla readily agreed to pay as far as Canada, and then Imck trial on testimony that she admin- $.1,000 to silence hls accusers, poto the Gulf of Mexico. All the lime istered a poisoned whisky highball lice say. He had paid $2,000. On i? of the prisoners. Carmelo he was leco tiling more and more to Itoctor Kennedy at the latter's familiar with the pair's method of clinic in Greenwood on the night of Scudderl. was said to. have acted the part of the "murdered man," operation. Finally he got word that July 28. 193& ' Itoctor they Intended to roh the First NaDean, while admitting that and another, Sebastian Delasorta, tional Rank of Arcadia, lx. she and Itoctor Kennedy had been an undertaker, was said to have He set hls trap on the main high- sweethearts, denied ltelng present rharged Zerhonla $500 for "funeral way a few miles outside the town. at the rendezvous In the clinic, and services" for Scudder. i End of Clyde Barrow. jan aunt and a cousin of the defendThe officers waited for six hour ant testified that she did not leavd Texan Gives Mule Full In the underbrush alongside the their home on that night. Credit for Saving Life road. Finally a tan sedan was .seen Her defense was bused on tlie conwas It north. from the A tention Doctor mule that abpronch'rg Rreckenrldge. Texas. Kennedy either Clyde and Bonnie. Captain Iijinier committed suicide, succumbed to changed the destiny of 1). Y. Mclson absorbed through habitual Koy. gave them a chance to stop.); lie stood up, it lone of hls men, and sig- .washing hla hands In disinfectant, It is to that mule that the naled to the car. It put on speed or as thd. result of alcoholic and pioneer attributes and Bonnie was seen to reach to- other excesses. bis opportunity to live bis four score ward the floor. Captain Hamer years and ten. fired and his shots were echoed by $14 in Small Chang- Is In 1871 McKoy mine to Texas a hall of bullets from hls men. Arkansas. .Ue obtained a Job from Found in Mans Stomach as driver Hundreds of bullets were sent on a wagon train running Washington. A patient at St. from Weatherford to Fort Griffin, Into the sides of the car. It swerved from the road and crashed against Elizabeth's hospital here learned through a desolate and sparsely setan embankment a hundred feet that his bill would not strike as tled country. Into hls pocketbook as he One ilsy one of the way. The officers pepped Into the deeply had anticipated when lie found that stubborn animals became unusually car. Ronnie and Clyde were dead, their bodies riddled with bullets. $14 bad liecn removed from hls stubborn. . McKoy applied the whip. In an njieruthm. Aside from He was reprimanded and ImmeClyde was slumped over the wheel. body In nickels, dimes and quarthe $11 Bonnie's head was between her diately gave up Ids Job. ters, a miscellaneous collection of knees. Seven months later riie wago' But Captain Hamer wasn't proud bottle tops, nulls and iqioons was train was attacked by Indians. It over the shooting wh'rh ended the found, according to the report. The was destroyed and the seven men activities of two of the most des- entire collection approximated eight in charge of it were killed after horimunils. f and rible torture. perate criminals ever .seen In tije The patient, Edward O. Nickels, Southwest. He drove to town and 'Except for that mule I undoubtcame to the hospital with an enedly would have been on the death quietly returned to Texas. When he list, tirely different ailment. I hated to have to shoot a wom"I tore that McKoy said. of durstomach trouble complained mule." he when said. all an," It's right It's a fellow who's going to get you ing Ills convalescence, a diagnosis tf you dont get him first. But a revealed the collection. Pet Crow Hitch-Hike- s woman on Automobile Stages Deer le Toe Dancer but even more characteristic of the' man. and similar to, the custom Salidas, Calif. Tuesday, Wren Philadelphia. A toe dancing deer, of Wyatt Earp. who always returned the first of Jts kind to be brought to Sands pet crow, has hls own methto hls marshal's duties .Immediately the United States, was a recent Ad- od of after he had tracked down and dition to the Philadelphia ZoologiFrequently, the hobo bird leaves killed a bailman, was ' hls remark cal gardens. The animal Is about lilt perch on the arm. of shoulder, of when his superiors, asked what he a foot tall and walks on Its toes. It one of his many friends here, fiiee was going to. do upon, hls return Is an extremely proficient jumper. for a mile down the highway, then rides back to town atop an auto frofii hls Louisiana success,. i AIMne Rebin Cengbt I've been np for DO hours," he stage. when off tbe bus He Td like and York. An albino robin with Ntv fluttfn ulij apologetically, to take the rest of the afenvwn pink eyes has been presented te the passes his owner's barber shop. off. But I'll be ready. for work In Bronx zoo by John Mason of ejer: . ' ; , i:who trapped the bird. d?n City I ! j , : - -- Caj-tai- n . aweetf-hear- t. - , . sixty-seven-year-- - long-eare- d, one-hal- hitch-hikin- - -- m . I : . . g. |