THE WEATHER CLOUDY TO NIGHT AND TO MORBOW Detailed Report, rase 8 VOL. 77—NO. 13. ESTABLISHED DEC. 4. I*7«. POLICEMAN SHOT BY HOHL DIES; GIRL AND $13,100 LOOT SOUGHT Cincinnati Police Search for Bank Money Stolen by Har risburg Bandit Who Was Shot to Death by Bluecoats—De tectives Question Robber's First Wife Who Was Bertha Holtzman, of This City- Hunting Now for Ivy Ormsby —Chief Hutchison Is Helping Ohio Sleuths—-Mother Plans to Bring Body Here The police of Cincinnati are searching to-day for the $13,100 stolen from two banks yesterday by Frank G. Hohl. the young Harrisburg bandit, who later was shot to death by Cincinnati police. So quickly was this money concealed following the daring robberies committed by the youth in two Cincinnati banks in broad daylight that the detective force is convinced that he must have had an accomplice. Patrolman Edward Knaul, who was shot by llohl while trying to arrest the latter yesterday, died at the City hospital in Cincinnati to-day. The police are searching for a w.pinan. whom they believe was the bandit's confederate and to whom they think he managed to give the $13,100 he obtained front the b&pks. Colonel Joseph I>. Hutchison, chief of the Harrisburg police, who gave information shortly after Hohl robbed a bank in Altoona, last March, which led to the identification of the bandit as the former Harrisburg youth, is aiding the Chi Hutchison is trying to help locate t information that may help in the Hold's body his morning lay une cinnati, but Mrs. Annie Hohl. the IU6 Court avenue, this city, that Ohio city to claim it and give it funds but intends trying to obtai Cincinnati. Her plan is to bring I Hohl's wife. Mrs. Bertha Hold, the youth married here in 1911, wa last evening and closely question name was Bertha Holtzman. She the crime and that she did not kno until she read in the papers of hi she left Hohl soon after their m<i as>ist him in his robberies. The woman the police are seekin was acquainted, and whom he is al wife. The police believe she may bandit's recent movements. HUTCHISON GAVE TIP LEADING TO ARREST OF HOHL IN LAST APRIL When the first report of the, dariug robbery of the Union bank, J of Aitoona, Fa., last March, was n ade to the police in this city. Chief of Police Hutchison was so impressed with the daring of rhe robber that ne immediately associated with the crime the name of Frank G. Hohl, the Har risburg bandit, who has'now paid the penalty with bis life. The first clue as to the identity of the Altoona robber was furnished by Chief Hutchison and on this information was the bandit identified. The subsequent arresit of Hoh! in SjJem, 0., was a direct result of the information furnished by Chief Hutchison. Lieutenant Mellvane and Inspector Turnev, of the Pennsylvania railroad police in Altoona, came to Harrisburg on March 24, the day following the Al toona robbery, having learned that a package had been sent from Altoona to this city and believing that it con tained the stolen money. Tiie following lay Chief Hutchison telephoned to Chief of Police Tillard, of Aitoona, that he believed Hohl was the bandit. He followed that long distance call with a letter in which he encJosed a photograph o»f Hohl taken when he was in the Eastern peniten-: ti.iry. The bank authorities failed to identify the photograph but the board ing house keeper ami the employes of the restaurant where Hohl took his meals in Altoona positively identified the photograph and on the 'strength of that the''• lookout" notices were issued to all of the police departments in the country. Also on the "look-out" were pictures taken of Hohl when he was: Coatinned oa Fifteenth Pace. BS)t Star- Snkpcnkirl ncinnati police at this end. Colonel the loot and is attempting to obtain eapure of Kohl's accomplice, claimed in the City hospital, in Cin vouth's mother, said at her home, she hopes to be able to go to the t burial. She said she is without in a railroad pass to carry her to the body here for burial. . a former Harrisburg girl whom is found in Cincinnati by the police led at headquarters. Her maiden declared she had no knowledge of >w of Hold's presence in Cincinnati is exploits of yesterday. She said arriage because he wanted her to is Ivy Orrnsby, with whom Hohl lleged to have represented to be his »• be able to tell something of the MOTHER SAYSHOHL WAS A GOOD BOY BUT THAT POLICE HOUNDED HIM Frank G. Hohl's mother, Mrs. Annie | Hohl, heard the first news of her son's awful crime and its swift retribution, as she sat in her home at 316 Court street, this city, last evening. A Star- Independent reporter was one of the first to bear the distressing news to the mother. She is a frail little woman, and as she hard the story of the Cin cinnati bank robberies committed bv her son and his duel to the death with the policemen, she wept softly and sobbed until she shook with the agony of it. "He was a good boy," she said, time and time again, denying with all the vehemence of a mother's belief in the goodness of her only son that he was had. That she havl seen him, or that she had heard from him since he left Harrisburg months ago, ghe denied emphatically. This morning a telegram was re ceived in Harrisburg stating that Mrs. Hohl, mother of the dead bandit, had written her daughter-in-law, Frank's wife, in Cincinnati, on Monday, last, telling her that she saw Frank in Har risburg ltst week. When the mother was shown this telegram to-day she vehemently denied that she had writ ten any letter of the kind. "I have not seen Frank or Bertha, nor have I written to either of them since they left here before he was ar : rested in Altoona and placed in the Hollidaysburg jail." Then she corrected herself. "I mean that I have not seen my boy in Har ; risburg. she sobbed. "I saw him in the Hollidaysburg jail on the Thursday morning before last Faster, because he j sent me word that h e was in trouble, j and wanted to see me. I hoard he es- Coatiaaed oa Flftrrath Pace. HARRISBURG. PA., FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 18, 1914—16 PAGES. FRANK G. HOHL, AT 17 YEARS II « ■MB Harrisburg Bandit Who Was Shot To Death By Police After He Stole $13,100 Woman, Alleged to Have Been Wife of the Bandit, Hohl—She Is Being Sought j From Two Cincinnati Banks Yesterday By the Police FIRST WIFE OF HOHL DENIES ALL KNOWLEDGE OF CRIME By Associated Press. Cincinnati, Ohio, Dec. IS.—The police here believe that Frank G. Hohl, the dead automobile bandit, was a big amist as well as a bank robber, sneak thief and burglar. This theory was reached at police headquarters last' night astter the detectives questioned i Mrs. Heir;ha Ho!h. the bandit's wife, who was Miss Bertha Holtinmn, of Harrisburg, Pa. Mrs. Hohl denied that she knew anything about the bank robberv here yesterday until brought to her atten tion through the newspapers; denied that she knew Hoh! was in Cincinnati and declared that he had left her more than a year aigo because she would not take part in his crimes. f>he said she-was married in Harris-' burg, March. 1911, to Hohl a few* d&vs after he had been disjuissed from the Eastern Penitentiary in Philadelphia. Her maiden name was Bertha Holtz nian an i she was born in Harrisburg. j "Hohl was first arrested for steal-j Continued on Thirteenth l'a«e. HOHL MARRIED BERTHA HOLTZMAX HEREIN 1911 Frank G. Hohl, the Harrisburg ban-' dit shot to death bv the Cincinnati po-1 lice yesterday, married his first wife,! who was Miss Bertha Holtzman, of Har risburg, on Februarv 20, 1911, the cere mony having been performed by Alder man Charles P. Walters, at the mag istrate 's office in this city. The bank robber and slayer of a Cincinnati po liceman, a short time before his first, wedding, had been paroled from the) Eastern penitentiary to which institu tion he had been committed on a charge 1 of robbing freight cars in Lemoyne. The girl he marrie 1 is a daughte" of the Frank and Lucy Holtzman. So far as could be learned the Holtzman fam-1 ily moved to Harrisburg from Lebanon j county a do/en or more years ago.; Frank Holtzman, now dead, was twice married, two sons having been born by, the first match, one of whom is George Holtzman, of this city. The wife of the bank robber was a daughter by the second marriage. Frank : Holtzman was a butcher by trade and j lived in this city, at different times, on \ Cameron and Fulton streets. After i the death of Mr. Holtzman his widow i remarried and moved out of the city. HOHL BLAMED FOR 810 ROBBERY IN KANSAS CITY By Aaaociated Prest. Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 18.—Photo graphs of Hohl recently received by i the police were identified last night by \ members of the Goldman concern as i those of the man who robbed the store of diamonds of great value. Another photograph said to be of a Salem, Ohio, woman, was identified as that of the alleged female accomplice. STBELTON FOOTBALL 'STAR' NAMED FOR WEST POINT Frank Morrett, Who Plays on the Bucknell 'Varsity, Nominated By Congressman Kreider—Fasnacht Is First Alternate and Carl, Second Congressman Kreider, of this dis trict, will to-morrow send to the Ad jutant General of the U. S. A., in the War Department, Washington, his nom inations of the candidates from the Eighteenth Congressional district, for the cadetship of the United States Military Academy at West Point. He will name as principal Frank Mor rett, of Steelton; first alternate, Wal ter K. Fasnacht, of Palmyra; second alternate, Paul Carl, of Williamstown. Frank Morrett is a son of Jacob Morrett, of Steelton, an employe of the Pennsylvania steel works and was born in ojteelton. He is twenty years old, i and in 1913 was graduated at the j Steel ton High school, standing high. He was a prominent member of the .Tee>ltoii football team, and played in all of the big gomes while at school, being a fine athlete. In the fall of 1913 he attended the North Carolina Uni versity, but at the beginning of the present year he passed the exams, for entrance to Bucknell University where he is now in his first vear course. He is a member of the fiucknell foottball team and played in Harrisburg with the team against Gettysburg. While at Steelton he was regarded as one of the Continued oa Thirteenth Pace. GONE TO CUT CITY'S TREE Mayor Royal and City Commissioners Start for the Mountains in Two Autos This Afternoon Harrisburg will not be without a Christmas tree for its Municipal cele bration on Christmas Eve, for this aft ernoon at 1.30 o'clock a group of mem bers of the Tree Committee left Police Headquarters for the Bovard tract, which is located in the mountains seven miles above Dauphin, to select the inas sire line which will be admired by all Harrisburg, The party, which consisted of City Commissioners Bowman, Lynch, Taylor anil Royal, and the Mayor's secretary, Clarence O. Backenstoss; Robert W. Hoy, chairman of the committee; Hub ert Gorman and C. M. Kaltwasser, started for the Bayard tract in two of the city automobiles. After the tree has been selected the Mayor will take an ax and start to fell it, after which a regular woodsman will complete the job and bring the tree to Harrisburg in the early part of next week. IVY ORMSBY, SOUGHT BY POLICE * v-i j* r GRANTS 5% INCREASE ON FREIGHT Interstate Commerce Commission Accedes to Application Made by Eastern Railroads RESTRICTIONS ON FEW COMMODITIES Carriers Permitted to Make Advance Except in Rail-Lake Traffic, Bitu minous Coal and Coke and in An thracite Coal and Iron Ore Washington, Dec. 18.—The Inter state Commerce Commission to-day granted the application of the Eastern railroads for a five per cent, advance in freight rates, excepting on certain specified commodities. Commissioners Harlan and Clements dissented. The carriers are permitted to make the applied for advances in rates ex cept the rail-lake-and-rail, lake and rail and rail-lake traffic; rates on bitu minous coal anil coke; ratos on anthra cite coal and iron ore ami rates that are held but unexpired orders of the commission. After further consideration the com mission permits advances to be made also on tement, starch brick, tile, clay and plaster. On these commodities no advances were permitted by the decis ion of August 1. Specify the Increased Rates Joint rates between official classifi cation territory and territory south of the Potomac and Ohio and east of the Mississippi may b e increased not to ex ceed five per cent. Interstate rates to and from New England also may be increased not to exceed five per cent. While present existing differentials among various Atlantic ports are pre served the rates between any two of them also may be increased five per cent. The decision says: "While we differ as to the relative importance to be attached to the vari- Coattaned oa Thirteenth P>(t. REVIEW OF 1911 BY PROF. WERT Interesting Events of the Year in Harris burg Arranged in a Chronological Order DEATH'S HAND HEAVILY FELT Growing Number of Civil War Veter ans Answered the Last B«oll Call— Volunteer Department Kept the Fire Loss at a Low Total BY PROFESSOR J. HOWARD WERT This year's record of daily occur rences oif special local interest lias been compiled along tho same lines, sub stantially, as those presented to tihe Star-Independent readers in previous years. Harrisbung, as the Capital Oity and a great railroad center, continues to be the chief convention city of the Sftate. Hence special attention has been given in thds compilation to national and State conventions, reunions and meetings <*f a fraternal, religious, political, educational, business or so cial character, including also special excursions of large bodies of visitors to this city. Oif these 60 have been catalogued, although of necessity, many of a minor ch t -rao(AW have been omit ted. Of all the assemblages here mention ed tihe most impressive and pathetic was the one in which the veterans of the Civil war removed the battle flags they once followed, to the place pre pared foT tihem in the State 'a Capito>l building. The greatest assemblage was the one attendant upon the meeting of the State Firemen's Association. An effort has also been made to re cord the leading facts in the religious, fraternal, industrial, educational and Continued on Sixth l'age. Aged Recluse Feels Winter's Chill Marietta, Dec. 18.—Isaac Metzler, an aged recluse and veteran of tihe Civil war, was found in a serious con dition this morning, having fell some time last night w*hile retiring and al most frozen to death. He is about 76 years of age and during the summer months has one o»f the finest gardens in the community from which he gains a livelihood in addition to receiving a pension. t POSTSCRIPT PRICE, ONE CJiNT. 400 PERISH AS GERMAN SHIP SINKS Cruiser Freidrich Karl Goes to Bottom Dur ing Recent Sortie in the Baltic RUSSIA SILENT ON GERMAN VICTORY Amsterdam Dispatch Says That Some of British Destroyers That At tacked German Raiding Squadron Off British Coast Were Sunk Petroprad. Dec. IS.—lt is semi officially announced that the German armored cruiser Freidrich Karl was sunk during a recent sortie in the Hal tic. Two-thirds of her crew are said to have perished, less than 200 men having been saved. Several reports recently said the Freidrich Karl had struck a mine while coning out of a German port in the Baltic and h&ti sunk. She was a cruis of 5,8581 tons and was built in Ham burg in 1902. Her complement was about 557 men. « British Destroyers Sunk London, DeiJ. 18, 3.10 A. M.—An Amsterdam dispatch to Renter's Tele gram Company contains a German of ficial statement which, claims that soma of the British destroyere, which at, tacked the German raiding squadron off the British coast were sunk. The com munication follows: "The retreating cruisers were at tacked by four British destroyers, one of which was sunk. Another disap peared badly damaged. "At another point another English destroyer was sunk." An official statement issued by the British Admiralty last night makes no mention of any British warship having been lost. The British statement said that the light cruiser Patrol and the destroyer I>oon, which were among the British ships that attacked the Germau cruisers, were struck by Shells and lost five men in killed and fifteen wounded. Russian Silent on German Victory London, Dee. 18, 3.25 A. M.—Nf definite news has yet come from the Russian side of the Great German vic tory in Poland reported in Berlin ami Vienna. The Russian official headquar ters report received Inst night gives no information on the subject and the cus tomary long Petrograd dispatches deal ing with the military operations in this district are absent from the London newspapers this morning would seem to indicate that a censorship has been im posed at Petrograd. LUTE WAR NEWS SUMMARY The German armies which invaded France and Belgium are said by the al lies to be yielding slowly but steadily To-day's official French statement, llk< its recent predecessors, reports victor ies here and there along the battle line It is stated that the allies have mad* a further advance in Belgium, although the report that they had captured Westende, near Nleuport on the Belgian coast was not confirmed. Several Ger man trenches have been taken, it ii also stated, although the admission ii made that the Germans blew up a French trench in the Argonne. The German War Office denies that further ground has been won by the al lies. It states that French attacks have been repulsed and that in the Argonnt 7,500 prisoners were captured. The German statement adds little t« Continued on Thirteenth r»gf. WALL STREEI CLOSING New York, Dec. 18.—The closing was irregular. Profit taking was again in evidence during the final hour, prices yielding from the best. Stocks moved steadily downward in the early deal ings, but recovered in large measures later on announcement that the Inter state Commerce Commission has grant el freight increased to Eastern railroads.
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