Life — September 7, 1922 — page 9: what you’re looking at

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Lite eS WEATHER It_ isn't so much the heat—it's the humidity. Mean Temperature—Mean TEMBER 3, 1922 ~ PRICE FIFTEEN CEN BIG GALE MAKES STATE WIDE HAVOC MOTHS DROP UP-STATE Wind and Hail Halt Fun of Gay “Week-Enders” nied by thunder, lightning je’s mother, the worst wind torm in twenty-two years this city late last night, in its wake a record toll of lamage estimated by the De- { Fisheries at between $3,000 ist seven o'clock. ing without so much as a warn- out of the west, the storm caught thou- sands of -makers in the sub- ways where they had been spending the day, up-rooted countless fruit trees where they stood, ruining the peach- crop for the eighth consecutive time this year, and plunged hundreds of homes into darkness by wetting all the matches which lay in its path. Seeking refuge from the rain under a mail-box, Samuel J. Wark, of 348 Lippit Ave. was caught and swirled violently against the curbing at the corner of Ocean Road and Hydrangea St., sustaining painful bruises and holding up traffic at that point for three quar- ters of an hour. “I was sitting in the gutter just before the storm came up.” said Mr. Wark when interviewed at his (Continued on next page) Accom}, and the and hail swept 0 leaving property partment and hali Ce CATCHES TURTLE AFTER 34 YEARS Kennebunkport Resident Finds Crusta- cean Marked Years Before. Kennebunkport, Me.—A turtle on which he had carved his initials thirty- four years ago was caught here today by Richard W. Bemis, who has been coming here as a summer resident since 1880. When he first caught the turtle, Mr, Bemis had no middle initial, and marked it only with the in B. Years later, when his Uncle William was about to die, he adopted the W., and when caught to- day, all three initials were found on the turtle’s back, Interviewed immediately after the oc- currence, Mr. Bemis said: “This comes as a great surprise to me, and I hardly know what to say. Thad no idea, when I started out this morning, that anything of the kind was about to happen. As always, however, T shall endeavor to be fair and square in my dealings with my fellow men, and Photographs of both myself and the turtle will be sold to the rotogravure sections at very moderate prices.” Mr. Bemis then excused himself to bose for a weekly news reel. “TOOTIE” NOTES CAUSE STIR IN SPRALL CASE WITNESS STUNS GRILLERS Fair Plaintiff, Flayed by X-Exa- | miner, Tells All to Filled Court | Sensational developments came thick and fast yesterday on the tenth day of the divorce proceedings in the case of Helen Drugin Seymouth Sprall against Robbins Sprall, her husband, and the counter-charges of Mr. Sprall against his wife, in which both parties are seek- ing to avoid the custody of little “Bim- m Sprall, the alleged child of the ill-starred union. The now-famous “Tootie” letters fig- ured again in the testimony and it was brought out by Mrs. Sprall’s attorney, Henry M. Middlegarth, of the firm of Middlegarth, Middlegarth, Middlegarth and Creep, 14 Wall St., that previous to the episode in the power-boat off the Grand Banks in which Mr. Sprall is alleged to have spent a week with sev- eral women of his acquaintance, the near-sighted clubman and polo-enthusi- ast had been involved in several affairs with actresses, one of whom in particu- | lar claims to have been married to him for fourteen years. In reply to this the veteran black- bass-fisher charges that his wife was herself mentioned in connection with (Continued in Sport Section) THE INQUISITIVE REPORTER Our Inquisitive Reporter yester- day asked this question of three people chosen at random: “Do you regard the Hegelian empiricism, taken in the light of Von Clausewitz’s metabolism, as a priori indicative of a subconscious conflict,—making due allowance, of course, for inherited predilec- tions? Gustav K. Steinmuller, 1484 East 168th Street. Paperhanger. “It all depends on how much yeast you use. Some likes it less yeasty and some likes it more. I get the best results by skimming every three days. It depends how you like it?’ Florence Weemick, 1409 Rutgers St. Stenographer. “No, I prefer Rodolph Valentino. I didn’t see The Hairy Ape, but I hear Lionel Barrymore was just lovely in it.” Claude Eisenberg, 133 Stuyve- sant Park. Plumber. “It looks to me like the Giants has the best chance.” SLEUTHS SEEK CLEABY SLAYER AS CROWDS CHEER Slain ‘‘Key-Ring King” ¢ THEODORE R.CLEABY 4 SHUN WEED, AUTOS AND LIVE EVER Avoid Tobacco and Keep Out of Auto- mobiles, Says Centenarian, Giving Rules for Longevity Louisville, K; With five genera- tions of his descendants grouped around him, E. W. Gresham, of Planton Town- ship, near here, today celebrated hundredth birthday. He was born just 100 years ago today, in 1822. Mr. Gresham never has been ‘in an automobile, and had his first ride in a trolley car last May. Asked for his rules for longevity, Mr. Sh: tween puffs of his pipe, advised his hearers first of all to avoid tobacco. He | also urged them to drink plenty of water, walk thirty to forty miles a day, never ride in automobiles or trains, and to lay off the Sunday newspapers. PAIR IN DEATH PACT Millipp, Tenn., Saturday—An un- identified couple, a man and a woman, committed suicide at an early hour this afternoon by asking Traffic Policeman Rudolph W. Moeltbein of 614 Vernon Avenue, whether it was hot enough for him. “Will Make Arrest Within 24 Hours” Says Costigerry | SENSATIONS PROMISED IN GREAT KILLING MYSTERY Police Seek ‘Woman in Grey” Who Figured in Key-Ring King’s Private Life. Who killed Theodore Rudd Cleaby, and why? This is the question which is bafflling the police tonight following the finding early last evening of the body of the wealthy and prominent key-ring king shortly after a conference with a mys- terious stranger at his fashionable home at Nevis, L. I., during which neighbors allege a shot was fired and previous to which Mr, Cleaby is said by the police to have ordered all deliveries of butter and eggs stopped at the exclusive back- door of his fashionable lodge in which he is alleged to have lived for five years previous to the murder with no companion except an old dog of 1546 West 212th St., The Bronx. It is the motive for the killing that proving the biggest enigma with which the police are confronted. Rob- bery was not the object, according to Lieut. Thomas Costigerry of the 210th St. station who is in charge of the de- tectives on the case, for it is pointed out that the diamonds with which the payly aaa siysod s,uRwanjo Ayy[ean were untouched and the safety clasp un- disturbed on the sailor’s whistle which |he wore on a cord and tucked in his breast pocket. It was this whistle which gave him the name among the residents of Nevis as “The Whistling Mystery Man, ¢ Possible Motives According to Capt. Peter L. Tweemy of the 165th St. Station, who is ia | charge of the motivation squad on the case, there are five possible reasons why Theodore Cleaby’s life might have been taken by almost anybody: 1. He was given to chewing, with a loud crunching noise, any ice that re- mained in the glass after a drink. 2. He wore gray silk gloves in sum- mer. 3. He had a small waxed mustache which was attached to his upper lip at only one spot, directly in the middle, 4. He stepped in front of people in lines at ticket-windows. 5. He wore a key-chain with a full dress suit. Mrs. Launch’s Story The last person to see the veteran clam-digger alive was Mrs, Robert Launch, housekeeper for Lester O'Day Lazarus, who lives next door to the Cleaby place. According to Mrs. comicbooks.com