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Show BOGUS MURDER STORY DOESN'T WORK SO WELL Ruse to Bring Back Young Wife Lands Husband in Police Court. New York. It was a good idea, and it worked after a fashion, but Arthur Phelps was a movie usher six months ago when he married an usherette working In the same Broadway Broad-way theater. Things didn't go so well and they soon separated. That didn't suit Arthur and he's been figuring some way to induce his wife to come back to him. If he were In trouble, he thought, she would fly to him. If he could only appear to be in trouble, just enough to get in the newspapers, where she would read about it. So He Phones Police. So Arthur Phelps, who is only twenty-two and full of bright idea phoned the police from his home at 366 Wadsworth avenue. The anonymous anony-mous male voice Informed detectives that the murderer of Harry Block, night club backer, killed a short time . before, could be found at the Wads-worth Wads-worth avenue address. The voice also described the murderer, mur-derer, and the description was a pretty good one of Phelps. So when Detective Erb called Phelps was waiting wait-ing for him, looking just like himself him-self and anxious to be arrested for Block's death. Arrested, but Not for Murder. Phelps was arrested, but not for murder. The police, In checking up on him, learned he was wanted for grand larceny for falling to return a Phelps Was Waiting for Him. rented automobile last August. Phelps rented the car, police say, from Jacob Falk of No. 3765 Broadway, and a few days later dropped a line from Chicago telling Falk where he could call for his auto In a garage there. He told the judge he had driven the car to Chicago on a $10 bet that he could make the round trip in three days. Khe gas and money ran low, so he left the car there. But the notoriety scheme worked all right. Phelps' young wife was in court and appeared to be in sympathy with her harassed spouse. |