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A GENERAL VIEW OF THE OVAL. PAIKS OF HARNESS HORSES BEING JUDGED fc W S Hi
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'i.o uebutatueb, Mibb Margaret licrwind and Miss Pauline Disston. u biiWART TAKING LONE BKN OVER THE JUMPS Mrs
T. Boyer Davis ana' her daughters, Priscilla and Maria, and Mrs. Penn
Gaskill Hall and her children, Marion and Penn Hall.
SISTER OF FIANCEE
HE JILTED ACCUSES
MAN OF $1200 THEFT
Rings and Prospective Bride
groom Disappear on Day
of Wedding Wife Here
Proves His Undoing.
Tho commeicial romance of lamcl
Diamond, of lath and Mifflin streets,
uhich started Inst January In Now
I York, ended today at City Hall, where
tlie man was identified by Dora "Wolf
as her sister Anna's nance, and accused
of btoallng diamonds valued at $1200
from her father. The prisoner is also
chained with stcallns ?300 worth of dia
monds from Henjamin Shapiro, of 876
North Sixth street.
Mls "Wolf stated that her Bister met
Diamond about a year ago, when ho pur
ported to bo a single, man. She stated,
however, that Diamond Is married. Ho
aid he was a rabbi and that previous
to coming tn New York he had lived In
Beaumont, Tex. He was very attentive
to Hiss Anna Wolf, and they wero soon
ngaged to bo married. The date of the
tedding was llxed for lust January,
Just before tho ceremony was to take
Plate, according to Miss Dora Wolf's
story. Diamond excused himself to tako
a nap for half an hour, and went up
stairs In the Wolf home. That was the
last the family saw of him.
When the girl's father went to look
tat tho piospecllve bridegroom he found
three diamond rings valued at $13W had
nlsarpearcd and that he was not to have
a son-in-law that day. Sir. Wolf, who
, ' a diamond merchant, hastily went
through the contents of his safe, the
combination of which was known to
Diamond, and found the thief had over
looked J10.000 precious stones kept in
another compartment from the three
rln.s.
When Miss -Wolf arrived here this
mornlns sho went at once to visit Ola
jnond.ln his cell and asked him to give
w either the three rlnss or the pawn
'3 for them. The prisoner had In
is possession only one pawn ticket
nlch he gave to Miss Wolf.taylng that
" had told the other two. The ticket
"lied for $150.
Because of the Shapiro robbery, a year
obo, detectives have been ecerchins for
Diamond. They haV0 kept a close watch
?.th maU recc'ved by Mrs. Diamond
M yesterday when, with her little son.
w ie out for Newark, N. J., In response
ttovl. .' 'rom that place- detective
Fyia routed, her and mads ta arrest
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SEGAL IN ASYLUM,
HAS NO KNOWLEDGE
OF HIS CONDITION
Taken to Norristown in
Auto, He Made Plans to
Continue His Business Ac
tivities Creditors to Act.
Adolph Segal Is now a private patient
in the State Hospital for the Insane at
Norristown. Ho was admitted to tho
institution at 6 o'clock yesterday after
noon to spend tho year, or less, that his
physician says lem.ilns of his life The
trip was inado by automobile from St.
Joseph's Hospital, where Mr. Segal had
been virtually a prisoner since his bank
ruptcy proceedings, a little moro than
two months ago, furnished the climax
to tho collapso of his onco brilliant mind.
Se'gal did not know that he was being
taken to spend his last days in a haven
for tho insane. Ho has been feverishly
anxious to get back to business, In his
few, brief lucid intervals. Ho does not
know that ills physician has said ho can
not live moie than a year and may not
live moro than two months. When hu
(dipped from tho hosplt.il by a rear door
pud climbed into tho waiting automobile
he thought he was being taken for a rido
for no other reason than to benelit his
health.
Dr. S. F. Miller, chief resident physician
ut the Norristown institution, said tills
morning that Mr. Segal had been ad
mitted. Tho mental coudltlton of tho
former financier lie would not discuss.
He declared th.it Mr. Segal is a private
patient. The rules of the hospital for
bid giving out tufutniatlon about Mich
patients except to relatives or others
entitled t knuw.
Unless Ills, creditors lake action, .''tgal
will never leave tho State Hospital alive.
Tho Federal Court has the authority to
subpoena him fiiiui the aslum In his
bankiuptcy proceedings, according to the
attorney for the tiustee. but it is not oin
sideied probable that such action will be
taken If pi oof of Segal's Insanity lb ad
duced it tlie meeting of creditors to be
held Thuisday in the otllce of Joseph
Mellon, lite referee In bankruptcy.
PICTURE-CRAZED
DOYLESTOIN LAD
SHOOTS OFFICER
Reginald Vanderbilt, of New York, snapped as he acted as judge in heavy
harness class.
shortly after the pair met. Thero was
a pathetic scene as Diamond was led
away, his wife weeping aud protestinf
his innocence,
After ht trial for the jobbery heie in
Philadelphia, Diamond will be turned
jr, to the New York autuorltlea for
Uiia la the WoU case
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Gold Pendants
AVe are showing a
great variety of thtse
graceful neck orna
mentb new and artis.
tic designs, set with
Diamonds, Pearls,
Amethysts, etc. at a
price range of
$2.50 to $123.00
C, R. Smith & Son
Market Street at 18th
Desire to Emulate Adven
tures in Wild West Drama,
18-year-old Youth Takes
Constable's Life.
cordially. Then ho took the man aside
and told him ontidentiallj that ho had
a warrant for his arrest
Miller then stepped away from the con
stable and drawing his revolver, "Broncho
Hilly" stjlo, tired one shot through
IColbe's heart. Tile constablo fell dead.
I to the platform. Most of the frightened
passengers ran into the station. Two men
pounced upon Miller, but he told them to
keep cool. Then he handed them his re
volver and walked with his captors to
the police station. Miller said he drew
the revolver to frighten Kolbe.
Tho man who fired the shot Is the pro
prietor of a moving picture theatre In
Doylestown. but lately business has been
very poor. This Is clue, the residents say,
to tlie fnct that Miller would offer noth
ing but Western dramas. Tho decrease
In business, it Is said, made Miller des
perato nnd caused him to forgo the check:
on the coal dealer.
R. A. HUMRICHOUSE
CONDUCTOR WILL RECOVER
Continued improvement in the condi
tion of H. A Humilcliouse, H0 North
26th fltieet, i he Pullman conductor who
was Injured in the tlnltimore and Ohio
wieek at Woodlyn. Sutuidny Inst, leads
Doctur I.uberg, his attending phjMclun,
to believe ho will iec-over.
The condition of Mrs. Humrichouse. who
has been Miffering from nervous prostra
tion and shock since the accident to her
husband, is nl-o Improved. News of the
wreck has been kept from her Shu be
lieves lie Is being treated for an old in
Jury, which he received in a wreck in
Illinois.
A desire to cmulnto tho ndvcntuiors In
mevlns plctutcs caused JS-jear-old Wil
liam Miller to shoot nnd kill Constable
1 Henry Kolbo this morning in the pres
ence of passengers nt tho Heading Hall
way station. Doylostown.
Miller, who Is known as "Broncho
Billy," on account of his ability to
quickly draw a revolver, was arrested
by Kolbo just ns ho was preparing to
leavo tho town with n new Miitcuse.
The man know there, was a warrant
for his uirest on the charge of forging
a check lu tho name of Neil Steilwngon,
n, coal dealer, for T3. Last night, ac
cording to the polite, he told fi lends he
expected to be nrivsted and declared that
no ono would bung him to Jail. He
bought a suitcase and packed It with
things that would come in handy on tho
plains mid the grtat desert, and then
went with a spiiit of biavado to the
tailioad station lie wu neatly diessed
and chatted pleasantly with some of his
friends
While he was ta'klng Kolbe, who knew
Miller n.rsoiiall.v, nruil and greeted him
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