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Serbians Fighting Fiercely and AHies Now Hope io Eifect Junction of Forces
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
LXXXIV— Xo. 275
SAY CONSPIRACY
EXTENDED FROM
COAST TO COAST
Trial of Karl Buenz Charged
With Violating Customs Laws
Opens in New York City
SUPPLIED GERMAN SHIPS
District Attorney Asserts $750,-
000 Was Spent Here in Break
ing Law and Treaties
ftv -f.r.'ociated Press
New York, Nov. 23. Captain K.
Boy-Ed, German naval attache was
the directing head under whom was
spent $750,000 in chartering and sup
plying neutral steamers with coal and
provisions for German men-of-war in
the Atlantic and Pacific in August,
3 914, the government formally charg
ed—and asserted that it was prepared
to prove the charge—in the opening
to-day of the trial on charges of con
spiracy, of Dr. Karl Bucnz, managaing
director of the Hamburg-American
Line, and three of his subordinates.
Roger B. Wood, assistant United
States district aatorney in charge of
the prosecution, in so declaring, in
sisted that the entire sum was spent
tinder the personal direction of Cap
tain Boy-Ed and that from $500,000
to $600,000 of the amount was spent
in San Francisco in chartering vessels
and obtaining supplies for the German
warship and.perhaps the Dres
den.
William Rand, counsel for the de
fense, admitted that the defendants
bad hcartered and supplied twelve
ships which sailed away from Ameri
can ports for the relief of German
men-of-war. In so doing, Sir. Rand
Asserted, the defendants acted upon
orders received by cable from Ger
many. , I
Vscd Many Ships
"Sixteen or seventeen ships were
used," Mr. Wood said, "by the defend
ants to carry coal, water, wine, sauer
kraut and needed supplies to the Leip
zig. Dresden. Eba, Santa Lucia, Elea
nor Woermer and other German men
of-war. These steamers all carried
supercargoes placed aboard by the
defendants, each supercargo bearing
I sealed instructions which were opened
.-.fter the vessels steamed awpy, some
times within the three-mile limit.
"The defendant Kotter, we shall
show, signed letters which the super
cargoes carried and these letters, ad
dressed to the captains of the steam
ers selected to supply German war
ships, instructed the captains to obey
the supercargoes and promised them
liberal gratuities for doing so.
"We shall show that after these ves
sels sailed for Buenos Aires, La Guay
ra. Cadiz, Monrovia and other destin
ations. the supercargoes instructed the
captains to go elsewhere and that the
captains obeying these instructions
took their vessels to meet German
warships at sea and to deliver to the
warships the supplies aboard.
"We shall show that these defend
ants conspired at various meetings to
«io all these things; that in so doing
they rode rough shod over the laws
and treaties of the United States as
contemptuously as if these laws and
treaties had been mere scraps of pa
per."
Mr. Wood's address lasted less than
forty minutes. W. Rand, counsel for
the defense opened with these words:
"So far as certain facts are concern
ed we concede they are just as Mr.
Wood stated them to be."
Body of Wm. Rapp to
Be Sent to Chambersburg
The body of William Rapp, whose
death at the State asylum, where he
was a patient, was the subject of a
coroner's investigation last night, will
!>e taken to Chambersburg for burial.
Kapp's former home was in that town.
The coroner's physicians found that
Kapp bad died of natural causes and
not as the result of an assault by a
fellow-patient. The coroner decided
t hat no inquest was necessary.
""Vifrott 1
t
>eron«l I-ap «»f the TcleKrnptTw Content
1I«»KIIIM Tonight
To-nistlit mark* the opening of the
■wond week of the eon tent. The Tele
graph HlnhfN to remind the entrleM
to he aure and have their an*wer* to
the flr*t fifteen quotation*, printed hint
week, in the hanriw of the Literary Edi
tor not later than to-uorrou <*\enini;.
!Vote There will he only ten quota
tlonM thin week, owing; to the fact that
thin paper ill not he printed on
Thniikftfil vlng. The next inntnlment,
therefore, will appear Saturday even,
inn.
Thin week the quotatlonn will he
confined to the «orkn of the follotvinfct
flurnn, Byron, Chexterfleld, Haute, ( ban.
Uarwin, Dleken*. Milton, Omar
Khayyam, *liake»peare, Smollet, >»peu
•er, I'ennynon.
J6—''Hut liu*b! hurk! a deep xound
Mtrlke* like a lifting; knell!
Illd ye not hear It*—*o! 't wan hat
the wlad.
Or the ear rattling over the atony
ntreet.
tin with the dance! let Joy he un
eonflned|
f No nleep 'till morn, when Youth
and Pleasure meet
To cliane the glowing Hours with
flying feet/'
37—ha\e ealled tliln principle, hy
which each alight variation. If
iiMcful, in prcaerved, by the term
Natural Selection.**
the Spring a livelier Irln
ehangea 011 the hurnlah'U
dove:
In the Spring n young man'a fancy
lightly tiirna lo thoughtn of
love.**
im-"liaNle thee. Nymph. auil bring
with thee
.lent and youthful Jollity,
(|ulpn and (raoka and wanton
Wiles,
Nod* and Hecks and wreathed
Smllea."
■"HI* npear, to equal which the
talleat pine
Hewn 011 ftorwegiao hills to be the '
mast
Of some great admiral were but a
wand.
He %%alk'il with to nupport uneasy 1
step*
o\cr the burning marie*"
SPIRIT OF SEASON
FINDS OUTLET BY
CHARITABLE GIFTS
Poor and Afflicted Will Be
Given Generous Donations
by the More Fortunate
STUDENTS WILL HE L P
School Children Plan to Send
Loads and Loads of Eat
ables to Hospitals
The spirit of Thanksgiving is find-!
ins a ready outlet among the poor
and aflllcted of tlie city who are re
ceiving special attention at this time
ftom the many charities and benevol
ent individuals who are accustomed
to dispense food and articles of cloth- |
ing at this season. Individual effort is
contributing largely toward the hap
piness of the unfortunates and the;
work of relieving them is not wholly j
depending upon the organizations
which are existing solely for that pur- \
pose.
The big feature of the day will, of'
course be the turkey dinner with trim- j
mings which many will receive. Others !
will be given roast chicken, lamb, or ]
pork, but whatever the dinner, there |
will be plenty and that plenty will be j
well prepared. The school children of'
the city will make their usual whole- |
sale donations on Wednesday morning
and the huge wagonloads of potatoes,
corn, tomatoes, apples, cakes, and
every conceivable manner of food
that is wholesome and toothsome will
be collected and distributed among
the seven charities of the city.
The hospital will not be included
among the beneficiaries of the school
children's generosity, for its inmates
are being taken care of by the novel
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WORMLEYSBURG
GRADE CROSSING
MAY BE CLOSED
i
Residents of Town and Near-]
by Farmers Want Another 1
Road Opened
CAMP HILL INTERESTED
Enlarging of Culvert Would
Eventually Lead to Build
ing of Boulevard
Viewers appointed by the Cumber
land county court to ascertain whether
the grade crossing over the Pennsyl
vania and Northern Central Railroad
tracks at Ferry street, Wormleysburg.
shall be closed, met this morning at
10 o'clock at that place.
The viewers, William B. Oyler, of
Newville, Samuel J. Tritt. of Penn
itownship, and H. B. Craig, of Ship
pensburg. traversed the road which
crosses the tracks and were accom
panied by a number of attorneys from
liarrisburg and Carlisle who represent
ed railroad interests, the borough of
i Wormleysburg and East Pennsboro
township. The viewers within the
next few weeks will hear testimony in
the court room at Carlisle after which
they will make their report.
Residents o* Wormleysburg, W. E.
Brinton and M. P. Keister. to whose
tarms the road leads, and the viewers
themselves appear to agree with
the railroad that the crossing
is dangerous and should be abandoned
but they do not believe it should be
closed before another road is estab
lished. The building of a new road is
what the West Shore people desire of
the railroad company. Mr. Brinton
and Mr. Keister get their mail at
Wormleysburg and also buy their groc
eries and provisions there. From tbe
farms to the town it is now onlv a
few minutes but if the road is closed
they will be compelled to travel over
a roundabout route to the Carlisle
pike at Eemoyne and through the con
gested district at the west end of the
Market street bridge into Wormleys
burg. The farmers are willing to have
the road closed but they want another
opened and they, together with a num
ber of Wormleysburg residents, show
ed the viewers this morning the logi
cal place for a new road.
! At Walnui street, in the upper end
|of Wormleysburg, there is a culvert
1 through which a road runs to several
| farms in that vicinity. West Shore
j folks believe that a road could he
Ibuilt from this culvert if it was wid
ened and made higher to the Keister
land Brinton farms and the viewers
'this morning were favorably impressed
with this solution to the problem con
fronting them.
Wormleysburg and Camp Hill resi
dents are interested in the enlarging
of the culvert as they believe thut if
i his could be accomplished, eventually
la new road could be built between the
two towns. Along a ravine, directlv
I back of the culvert, they say a new
i road or boulevard could be built at
| very little expense.
I J. A. WILMS, POSTM ASTER
OF KHIKKMANSTOWX, DIES
Joseph A. Willis, Shiremanstown,
j died yesterday at the Harrisburg Hos
pital from a complication of diseases.
He was 81 years old. .Mr. Willis was
born in York county, but. later moved
to Shiremanntown, where he lived the
remainder ol' his life. He was engaged
in the siioe business for many years
and for tlie last eleven years was post
master at Shiremanstown. He at
tended to his business affairs until live
weeks ago, when he became ill. Mr.
Willis was a member of the Shire
manstown United Brethren Church.
He is survived by three children. Clay
ton P., of this city; Emma P.. at home,
and Edgar Willis, of Hyndinan, Pa. j
Kuneral services will be private.
HARRISBURG, PA., TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 23, 1915.
— 1
{ NEWEST BEAUTY DISCOVERED FOR MOVIES \
MARGARET GALE
Margaret tJaie i.s the newest beauty discovered for the movies, and she
has created something of a sensation. J-.ee Kugel, a prominent figure in the
movie business in New York, found her photograph in a studio window. He
asked for her at once, and she looked even better than her studio pictures.
"How much are you making now?" asked Kugel.
"Thirty doflars n week," she said.
"I'll give you S2OO if you can act," said he.
Now he is glad he signed a contract with her.
DOES FOUNTAIN
LADY TOSS LEFT
I LEG OR RIGHT?
! That's the Question "Chocolate
King" Has to Answer in Art
Suit Grilling
GUJSSEPPE DONATO, (the artist)
The problem—ln art, as to whether
the crayoned lady who tossed her
right leg in the "dance of eternal
Spring" on the courtroom wall was
the same one who tossed left in
the same exhibition, this morning
[Continued 011 Page 9.]
Thanksgiving Likely to Be
Fair Thinks Forecaster
Thanksgiving weather in Harris
burg, promises to be satisfactory.
Conditions depend upon the speed of
a storm headed this way from the
Northwest. It is a mixup of rain,
snow and chilly blasts. Indications
to-day were that this storm would
not reach Harrisburg before Fri
day. •
E. R. Demain, the local weather
observer, said the northwest storm
might break into btts before reaching
Harrisburg after studying the weather
map. He said, "chances for fair
weather in Harrisburg on Thursday
are good."
The snow of 'to-day was recorded
at the local weather bureau, as only
a "squall." Temperature conditions
were expected to change the snow
flakes into raindrops before the eve
ning. It will be from four to six de- 1
grees warmer to-night. The weather
to-niorrow will forecast more post- ;
tlvely that of Thursday.
GDWAKD I>APP HONORED
Jury Commissioner Edward Dapp,'
treasurer of the Keily Hose Company!
has been appointed chairman of tho
executive committee or the PerinnyU
vanla State Firemen's Association.
ALLIES TRY HARD
TOSAVEMONASTIR
FROM THE KAISER
Hope to Effect Junction in
Time; Greek Situation
Relaxes
I By Associated Press
London, Nov. 23.—The latest news
.from the Balkans has revived hope in
J England that Monastir may hold out
pong enough to enable the French and
British forces to effect a junction with
the Serbians. The Rome and Eondon
legations of Serbia have received re
ports of a great Serbian victory north
east of Pristina, but as these advices
give neither details nor dates there are
doubts as to their importance.
It is now believed allied forces which
may take refuge on Greek territory
are hardly likely to be subjected to
(Continued on Past* 16.)
School Board to Elect
President December 6
The Harrisburg school board will
meet for reorganization December 1,
when the three new members will take
their seats. A. Carson Slamm, Ttob
ert A. Enders and Dr. C. E. L. Kcene,
who were elected this month, will suc
ceed Charles S. Kohl, George W. Ken
nedy and Millard F. Saul.
A new president will be elected to
succeed Harry A. Boyer, who will not
be a candidate lor re-election despite
the urgings of some of his friends who
would like to see him establish a rec
ord for service as head of the board
[which he would do If re-elected this
time. Quite a few of the directors
are looking toward A. Carson Stamm
as a logical man for president, in
view of the fact that he was elected
on all three party tickets. Adam D.
Houtz. a hold-over member of the
board, has also announced his candi
i ducy.
The other hold-over members are
, Wm. S. 8011. Harry M. Bretz, George
j A. Werner and Dr. Win. N. Yates.
Appoint Committee to
Meet Senator Chamberlain
Wm. M. Donaldson, Wm. Jennings
and Andrew S. Patterson will com
prise the reception committee that
will meet Vnited States Senator Geo]
E. Chamberlain of Oregon on his ar
rival in Harrisburg at 11:15 to-mor
row to address the Harrisburg Cham-
I ber of Commerce luncheon.
I There will be an unprecedented at
tendance at the luncheon according to
the number of acceptances already re
ceived, since Senator Chamberlain's
position as chairman of the Commit
tee on Military Affairs will enable him
to discuss the subject "Preparedness"
In an authoritative manner.
DIXKS JAP OFFICERS
Kobe. Japan. Nov. 23. Hear Ad
miral Albert Winterhalter, comman
der in chief of the Asiatic fleet of the
United States, gave a fiyewell dinner
to-day to Admiral Shigetaro Woshi
matsu, commander of the Kure naval
station and a number of other Japan
ese ofllcers. The dinner was held on
board Admiral Winterhalter's flagship,
the Saratoga, which has been here in
connection with the coronation of
Emperor Yoshihito. The Saratoga
sailed to-day for Yokohama to take
pari in the nuval review.
HARRISBURG FIRE
COMPANIES WILL
GO TO COLUMBIA
Local Firemen Ready to Take
Part in Big Celebration
Thursday
HONORARY AIDS NAMED
Borough Is Preparing to Enter
tain Thousands of Visitors
During Event
Columbia, Pa.. Nov. 2 3.—Arrange
ments are being made to entertain
thousands of Visitors here Thursday
when thirteen tire companies, each
headed by a band will parade and
help observe Thanksgiving Day. Spe
cial cars will be run here from Lan
caster, Marietta and other nearby
points and trains are expected to un
load hundreds of persons during the
morning and early afternoon.
Thanksgiving Day has never been
celebrated here as it will be Tin ?s
--day. Five years ago a firemen's review
was held but it was arranged on a
much smaller scale than that now
planned. More than 2,000 men will be
in line and appa->tus from many of
the surrounding towns will be brought
here.
In the evening there will be a great
fantastical" display and from all avail
able accounts there will be approxi
mately 4,000 men, women and children
in the parade. All of the local and
visiting tire companies will masquer
ade and in addition 2,000 individual
marchers are expected to participate.
One of the features will be the display
of the Harmonlcal Association, whose
members will occupy a stretch three
blocks in length. It is said the the or
ganization wil' carry out a circus idea
and in cages there will be found all
kinds of queer looking animals. In
fContinued on Page 2]
"CONTINUATION"
SCHOOLS UP TO
THE NEW BOARD
| Educators, It Is Believed, Will
Invite Co-operation of
Business Houses
j When they're not hearkening to the
,eall of "Cl>~a-sh!" hustling on errands,
| helping out in a pinch he*». aud there
[at this or that counter, or otherwiso
'making themselves useful, the scores
of youngsters of school age in the city
department stores of the near future,
may be poring over their books in the
store schoolroom upstairs.
} Study or schoolrooms in the stores
[and similar business establishments
I may be the most feasible method of
jworking out the "continuation school'
i requirement ot' the now child labor
| law, according to local school author
! ities.
| Just what scheme will be worked
out Is a matter of conjecture thus far
I but it is understood that the public
ischool educators will invite the co
operation of the firms employing girls
:<nd boys between the ages of 14 and
IB years, in solving the problems.
Problem For Xcw Hoard
That the satisfactory application of
the new law's requirement for Harris
burg will be one of the f'.rst important
questions to confront the new City
School Board is certain.
The child labor law provides that
every girl or boy of school age—be
tween 14 and 16 years—who isemplo.v
ed in a department store, etc., must at
tend school somewhere, some place at
least eight hours each week. The time
may be put in a single day, or spread
over two, three or four days. But
every youngster must work at least
eight hours a week over his or her
books.
The school authorities now. accord
ing to Dr. I'*. K. Downes, city superin
tendent. are collecting data to deter
mine where the hundreds of youthful
sales girls and boys are employed.
With Ibis as a foundation Dr. Downes
said, the school board will be in posi
tion to know how to proceed.
Store Schools
"We will be in a better position to
determine what we can do when we
have this information in hand," said
Dr. Downes. "We're busy on this
work and I hope to have a plan com
[Continued on Page 13.]
I THE WEATHER]
/ For llnrrlshurg anil vicinity; Un
artllnl weather, probably light
rain to-night: Wednesday fair;
Nonimlint warmer.
For l'.astern Pennsylvania: Prob
ably rain to-nlghti \Vedjpt-silny
fair; not niueb elinnue kp tem
perature) light to moderate south
winds.
Itlver
The \orth nml West llranelies will
fall slowly. The upper portion of
the main river will lieu in to fall
slowly to-night and the Inner
portion Wednesday. A stiuce of
about 4.< l feet Is indleated for
llnrrlnhurK Wednesday morning.
* (ienernl < omlltlmis
Pressure Is highest the Mid
dle Atlantic roast and lowest over
the extreme Northwest.
I.inht precipitation, mostly In the
form of snow, has occurred In the
Ippcr Mississippi A alley anil the
l.ake Heglon In the Inst twenty
four hours.
A general rise of '1 to I** ilrgrees In
temperature has oeeurreil in the
Mississippi, Ohio anil I.ower Mis- .
sour! valleys and In the l.ake Ite
glon.
Temperature: S a. m., 30.
Sun: Rises, 7 a. in.; sets, 4:43
p. m.
Moon I Hlsra, 5i48 p. m.
Itlver Stage: 4.K feet above low
water mark.
Yesterday's Weather
Highest temperature, »».
liowest temperature. XI.
Mean temperature, :W.
Normnl temperature, 3»
WEST SHORE RIPE
FOR IMPROVEMENT
EPOCH CITIZENS
Residents of West Shore Town Favor Improvement League
to Include Whole Community, With Probability of
Local Branches in Each Town; First of Series of
Interviews
KOIIKKT I'. <;OKM\N ,
That residents of West Shore towns
teel the pressing need of a public Im
provement and civic betterment or- j
sanitation for the benefit of the vari- j
ous communities of that locality is I
expressed in statements which promf- ;
nent men have made within the past !
several days, and the Telegraph to- j
day prints the first of a series of these !
interviews.
Movements are now on foot for the'
founding of such an improvement or- j
ganization and from indications only
a short period will elapse until the i
businessmen of every town from New j
Cumberland to Enola and back to,
Camp Hill, together with other pro
gressive citizens in those towns will
be banded together for the beginning
of an epoch of improvement such as
the West Shore has never known. I
•
Convicted to Shipping t
Bottles of Whiskey in
Coffins to Dry States
Chattanooga, Tenn., Nov. 23.—Thej
Tennessee Collin and Casket Company)
and Frank Fox. its shipping clerk, j
were convicted by a jury in the Fed- j
eral court to-day of shipping bottles of j
whisky in coffin;; to adjoining States!
without proper labelling.
T. C. Betterton. president of the
company, and who is police chief of
Chattanooga, L. C. Mylius, superinten
dent of the company and A. G. Smith, |
a salesman, were acquitted. Betterton i
denied knowledge of the fact.
The government contended It was)
the company's custom to enclose hot-,
ties of whisky to those who bought
coffins. Sentence of the convicted par
ties will be passed later.
MRS. FAGER GROWS WEAKER
The condition of Mrs. Martin \V. |
Fagcr, 133 State street, who has been'
critically ill at her home for several I
weeks, is unchanged to-day. but she I
is gradually growing weaker. It was]
! said to-day. I
I
| __
i ARRESTED FOR IMPRISONING GIRL
Easton, Md., Nov. 23.—Frank Marshall and wife, who
are alleged to have held Marshall's daughter, Grace, a 1
prisoner at their home for elrve-n years were taken into
custod to-day.
HERSHEY LEAVES STAND
Milton S. Hershey, the "Chocolate King," gratefully if
a bit wearily stepped from the. witness stand at 3.05 o'clock
this afternoon after undergoing an all-day cross examin
ation In the proceeding Gue«eppe Donato had ' brought
against him for the recovery of $25,000, the price of a foun
tain for Hershey Park-
HUNDRED PEOPLE DROWNED
Rome, Nov. 23, via London, 2.42 P. M.—One hundred
persons were drowned to-day by the washing away of a
I bridge over the Salso river, near Licata, Sicily.
I REDUCTIONS IN COAL RATES, JANUARY 1
Washington, Nov. 23.—Reductions in hard coal rates
| ' order#d by the Interstate Commerce Commission to become
J effective December 1 were postponed to-day until January 1
J TO FOLLOW SWISS SYSTEM
J Washington, Nov. 23.—Chairman Chamberlain, of the
# Senate Military Committee, announced to-day that he plan- '
m ned to introduce a bill for national military service modeled
3 after the Swiss system.
1 TWO BLOWN UP IN BOAT f
# Ocean City, Md., Nov. 23.—While dynamiting the piling ■"
» of the fish pond of Henry E. Davis, one mile off shore and
» six miles south of Ocean City to-day, 150 pounds of dyna »
I mite in the supply boat exploded, instantly killing Harry %
■ Pattey and Samuel Monkhouse, of this place. Both the ft
g men and boat were literally blown to pieces. The cause of C
M the explosion is unknown as the boat was at a safe distance V
» from the work. Both men leave families, C
J DRIVING SERBS TOWARD KOSSOVO }
M London, Nov. 23. —■ Austro-German and Bulgarian »
M forces are pressing the Serbians hard, driving them toward S
J the Kossovo plain from both northeast and southeast" of j
■ Pri6tina. The Teutonic forces are nearing Mitrovitza, W
whence the Serbian capital is reported moved to Prizrend. *'"■
MAMUAGE
' Wl»l«m J[. Morrl*, WililaniMtowu, anil Kmlly >l. Jury, Wlcoulaco. M
< l ii> ton M. Hlder, liOnilonilerry, and Matx'l HoniKiirdnrr, 1|
tow 11. If
' J!®rV <, . n Ohio, itii,| KloNtile Sailii(ln, Wl<*otil»fo. I
Wdfl J. Znftrell ami llcaalr K. city. M
c
POSTSCRIPT— FINAL
16 PAGES
[ Suggestions ;is to just what such an
| organization could accomplish vary
I from the establishment of parks lo
i the annexation of West Shore towns
to llarrisburg. improved highways,
new roads, the opening of more build
i ing sites, a community high school,
! river front improvement, a new free
j bridge, a community disposal plant, a.
, uniform drainage system and the
| linking together of all six towns by
1 new building operations are only a
few of the things which have been
discussed and which men believe can
■be accomplished by the concerted
action of progressive citizens in each
| town.
That the organization of a West
Shore municipal Improvement asso-
I ciation, civic league betterment so
f Con tinned on Page 11]
(Investigation at Grave
Results in Arrest of
Man on Murder Charge
| Heading, Pa., Nov., 23.—lnvestiga
| tion made by the authorities when the
j body of Albert Kenderdlne was to have
i been interrefi yes-.fcrday. resulted In
j the arrest late last night of Antonio
j Petreeia aged 2N, proprietor of tiic
commissary department at (bo quarry
lat Pool Mill, near Pine Korge, this
county, where Kcnderdine was em
| ployed as a blacksmith. Petreeia was
[arrested. The charge is murder,
j At the time of the death of Kender
dine it was relieved that the wound
on the back of his head bad been
caused by falling: against a bunk,
l.ater investigations indicated that the
man met with foul play. It is believed
thut. a quarrel arose between the tw">
men and that the cause was
a woman who '.lves in ttie vicinity of
the quarry. The accused man was
I taken to the Berks county prison ti>-
jday. Me came to this country eleven
1 years ago.