THE WEATHER SNOW TO NIGHT COLDEB TO-MOHROW Octvilrd Report. l'ag« 0 \ VOL. 77—NO. 14. ESTABLISHED DEC. 4. HOHLTOBE BURIED IN THIS CITY Mother Claims Body of Bandit Rilled on Thursday by Cincin nati Police SLEUTHS GET NEWS OF LOOT Are Convinced That at Least Part of the Stolen SlS,too Was Shipped by Parcel Post to Louisville. Ky.— 1 Clue Is Being Followed The body of Frank Q. Hohl, the »itto-! mobile ban.lit of this city, who on Thursday robbed two' l>ahks, fat.-ih" ■hot Harrisbarg cemetery where Hohl « ( lathe and four brothers and sisters are' buried. j P.elstives Arrive Here Mrs. Mary Hohl, of Pine Grove, a f iter-in-law of the bandit's mother, ar r.ve l in the city this morning and will help the mother with the funeral ar rangements Mrs. Foster T. Wallace, a sister of frank Hohl. came here this af'crtioon aid i- stopping with Mrs. I!o:ii at 31K North Court street. A dispatch from Cincinnati telling of; the «ear -h by t'be police of that city for 'he missing money taken by Hohl from the two banks, says: "Tie 513,100 obtained by Frank G. Hold, or at least a part of it, was MBS. BEBTHA HOLTZMAN HOHL Former Harrisburg Girl, Widow of Ban dit Killed by Police shipped by parcel post to Louisville, Kv., by the robber. '"This information was ascertained by the police when a groceryman named John O. Keller identified the dead bandit as the nran who had come to hi* store shortly after noon Thurs day and obtained a box in whioh he placed several bundles and then secure ly wrapped the package. It was also ascertained that Hohi was in Station V, of the poetoffiee, about 12.30 p. m. Thursday. Sent Box to Louisville "It is known that he sent a box de cidedly similar to the one he wrapped up in the grocery store, tOiP. C. and thp postmaster at that city has been notified to be on the look out for the package. A post office money order application also was found in .the dead man's clothing addressed to P. C. Wright, Louisville. Ky. "It is now believed bv the police that one of the two revoivers carried by Hohl contained blank cartridges This was used, the police assert, merely to frighten those whom the bandit en countered in the banks. £!) c Slat"Mtepenknt SCENES INCIDENT TO KILL sLL »L?'S££>*< ™r • d^l?£~Z%&-"£5Z£Z *~"*+ " . jew*#*' ««^-flc#a<.' HOHL ATTEMPTED TO LOOT THIRD CINCINNATI DANK Detailed Story of Harrisburg Bandit's Death at Hands of Police Shows He Dropped *4,000 Besides the sl3, lO© He Made Way With (Special to the Star-Independent.) Cincinnati. Deo. 19.—A thrilling story is toM in detail by the Cincin nati "Enquirer" of how Prank G. Hoii!, the Harrisburg. Fa., bandit, was shot to death by the police after he hal looted two banks of $13,100, attempt s' 1 to rob a thirl and fatally wounded Patrolman Knaul last Thursday. This story shows that in the second bank en tered by the leeperalo he dropped an additional $4,000 when making for his auto. The scene of the first robbery was the branch of the Provident Savings Bank and Trust Company, at Eighth street and Freeman avenue. The bandit who looked more like a bank clerk than a desperado, went into the bank shortlv before 12 o'clock. Edward Hughes. 1313 Vine street; the cashier, Catherine Walsh, 20 Calhoun street, and Grace Allen, 649 Neave street, bookkeepers, were there. The bandit's entrance was unusual. He felled a man who had just paid a wa ter bill and was coming out, with a blow of his fist. Then the robber fired two shots at Hughes. Holding an automatic revolver in one hand the bandit climbed an eight-foot brass railing r.inning the length of the bank room. Hughes dared not start toward the intruder, for the muzzle of the gun was pointed straight at him. In the other hand the stranger carried a satchel. The marvelousness of the feat appalled the three attaches. The performance was soon over. Sticking the revolver under Hughes's nose the thief forced him to help fill the satchel from the desk and money Coatlaned on Seveatb Pave HOHL THE MAN WHO STOLE $947 IX DAYTON POSTOFFICE Cincinnati, Dec. 19. —Frank G. Hohl, the dead automobile bandit, had anoth er robbery added to his list of crimes here to-day when two money order clerk.« in the Dayton, Ohio, postoffice identified him as the man who robbel that office on August 6, last. He ob tained $947 in that raid. No trace of the missing $13,100 ob tained by Hohl in the robbery of the two Cincinnati banks on Thursday had been found to-day. The Louisville postoffice authorities notified the local officials that the package sent from here about noon Thursday had not been lo cated there as yet. The dead bandit has been further identified by two saloonkeepers from Covington, Ky., as the man who recent ly held up their places of business at the point of a gun obtained small amounts from the cash drawers. HARRISBURG, PA., SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 19, 1914—14 PAGES. WOIH SMOKER BURNS 10 DEATH Mrs. Mary Rimmons, 70, Afraid to Call Aid Because She Is "Breaking Rules" PIPE ASHES START BLAZE Only Shoes Bemain of Her Clothing When Her Screams Finally Attract Persons to Her Bedroom in the Cumberland County Almshouse (Special to the Star-Independent.) Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 19.—Fearing that if she called for assistance it would be learned that she hal violated one of the institution's rules by smoking in her bedroom, Mrs. Mary Kimmons, 701 years old, an inmate of the Cumberland | County almshouse, made a vain attempt! to beat out a fire in her clothing, and! she was so badly burned that she died at 5 o'clock this morning. The lire is believed to have been | started either by sparks from her pipe or a match which she had used to light her pipe. The accident occurred last night about 8 o'clock, or immediately after she had gone to her bedroom. When it was too late Mrs. Kim mons' screams attracted officials and other inmates to her bedroom, but then Coatlaaed •• Seventh Put Brakeman Injured Between Can John W. L.awver, 1909 North •Fourth street, a brakeman on the Pennsylvania railroad, suffered a frac ture of the right foot when he was caught between two cars. The injury was treated at the Harrisburg hospital. Thrown From Sleigh , William Gardner, of West Fairviow, was thrown from a sleigh near his home last evening when the horse be came frightened by an automobile truck. He suffered a fractured foot. He was treated at the Harris bang hospital. Dies of Blood Poisoning Mrs. William Richardson, 500 North Cameron street, died last evening at the Harristmrg hospital from blood poisoning. She was admitted to the hos pital, December 10. BOYS LEAD POLICE TO PLACE OF HIDDEN COLD Middletown Youngsters Confess to Many Bobberies and Show Where Part of Loot Is Concealed—Three Are Held For Court Trial ♦ Special to the Star-Independent.) | Middletown, Dee. 19.—Besides con- j fesning to a charge of breaking into and robbing Pennsylvania railroad freight curs, Elmer Dasher, Kobert ami William Seibert. Rovalton boys, at a hewing before Squire W. J. Kennard, j here late yesterday afternoon, laid bare j details of halt' a dozen robberiee ■ in I which they have participated in and ! round Middletown and Royalton dur- j inj,' the last six months. The bovs also implicated half a dozen others for whom warrant® have been issued, and more arrests axe ex pected soon, .lacob Kreiser, just out of his teens, was mentioned as one of the train robbers' comrades, and he was arrested by Constable T. K. Stipe and John H. Stipe, last evening. On the train robbery charges—the three defendants intimated that they, preferred to be called "car crackers"! —Squire Kennard held the trio for the January criminal sessions and commit ted them to the Dauphin county jail in default of bail. While, the youngsters were telling tljeir stories the constables and railroad policemen went out in search of robbery victims and had ' them enter additional tarcenv changes. Had "Fun" With Police Dasher and the Seiberts were appre hended by the railroad police, including Lieutenant Cramford, of Harrisburg; Coattened as Streatl Puce FOUND rnrn vT DEATH Body of Unidentified One-eyed Man la Picked Up on South Street Near Railroad This Morning Somebody 'g Christmas will be spoiled when he learns that his brother or fath er was found dead at 6.30 o'clock this morning at the rear of a warehouse at South street and the Pennsylvania Railroad. The body was first seen by William Devan. Who the man was or where he came from is not known. He is described as being about 45 or 50 years old, five feet, four inches tall, and having but one eye. He weighed 135 pounds. Coroner Eckinger was summoned and he said the man had evidently been frozen to death. The body is now in the undertaking establishment of Rudolph K. Spicer, 313 Walnut street, where it will be left for a while in the hope that relatives will be able to identify it. No letters or cards were found that would give a 1 clue as to who he was. The only thing in the clothing wae an old-time watch. MAYOR HEWS THE ill CIPAL IE It Is Found Nine Miley Beyond Dauphin by Noble Band of Cits Fathers LYNCH HAS TO WALK IN SNOW Head of Street Cleaning Department Learns in Country How It Feels to Trudge Through Drifts—Taylor's Auto Balks on the Mountainside Nine miles northeast of Dauphin, in the heart of the "Bayard Tract," a committee of Harrisburg city officials yesterday afternoon selected the tree that will be the central stage setting for the municipal Christmas celebration. Commissioner Lynch, part of whose | 'business is cleaning snow off the city streets, after tramping for twenty min utes through five inches of the beauti ful on the mountainside, announced that the next time he goes for a tree it will be in June. In the party were Mayor Royal and all the City Commis sioners, save Mr. Gorgas. It is a pine tree. The committee men did not ask Mr. Bayard what kind of a tree it was after they selected it and chopped it down, but they decided while on the homeward trip that it is a pine, not a member of the committee i being able to give it any more fancy name —the City Forester not yet hav ing been appointed. The story of the trip is one of pri- CoßtUufd oa Thirteenth Page. All Hunting in County Prohibited Bunting in Dauphin county is pro hibited, and no matter whether a man holds o hunter's license or not, he can not hunt in this territory. That is the edict given out to-day by Dr. Marshall, State Veterinarian of the Live Stock Sanitary Board, by direction of the board. Under the edict there can be not hunting in any part of any county in the State that is now quarantined for the foot and mouth disease, and Dauphin county is so quarantined. Heart Trouble Kills Steel ton Man Daniel Griva, 513 South Second street, died last evening at the Harris burg hospital of t heart trouble. Griva was in the hospital three times for treatment. SANTA BANCS HUSBAND ON TREE FOR SOME NICE CIRL Eeal Live Man Induces Governor Tner to Help Him Hunt a Wife—His Name Is and He Is Fond of "Home, Sweet Home Affairs" Here you are, Harrisburg girls! Get busy! Santa Claus has hung something on his Christmas tree out of the ordi nary. ]ee. 19. 3.50 A. M, Sev eral London newsipapers to-day revive the reports that the allies have cap tured Bowlers, West Flanders. The "Chronicle" says that Koulers has been captured after fierce assaults uu the German trenches. The " I>aily News" publishes the following: '• Reports current in Northern France are that the French and Brit ish have taken Roulers and also that they are in possession of a part of Lille. Ho.wever, the capture of Rojl orf would mean a victory so important . au immediate official annonnce m«ait protmibly would be made." LATE WARIi" SUMMARY The German War Office announce ment of an overwhelming victory in Po land still fails to bring a response from Petrograd. Berlin is puzzled by the absence of details and is said to be experiencing "a shade of disappoint | ment,'' although stiU celebrating the I reported victory. Petrograd dispatches say that the new Austrian expedition across the Car pathian mountains Into Oalicia has been checked, and that the Russian forces near the Silesian frontier are holding their positions firmly. The Cracow re gion is described as the real pivot of the operations now developing, which would indicate that the Russians were content for the present to remain on the defensive in north and central Po land, while planning an attempt to in vade Germany from the south. London newspapers have revived the report that the allies have captured Roulers,in one of the most furiously con- Con tinned on Mevrnth Pan GOOSE-BONEJAYS COLO It Is Rlack From the Middl« of Decem ber Clear Rack to March and That Means Hard Winter The goose-bone for the winter of 1914-15 says severe weather all during the winter months, and then some. And, what is more, the weather thus far has stuck by the goose-bone fore cast. Old weather prophets, who have pre dicted the weather for years, still stand I by the goose-bone and their prediction* | and the reading of that ornithological I weather map, of the member of the tribe of anserinae, govern many iu their preparations for the winter months. A goose-bone brought to the Star-In dependent office this week announces in loud tones (if a goose-bone can produce tones) that this is going to be a hard winter. A goose-bone savant, who knows how to read the signs on the bone, says that in the reading of it the projecting part of the breast bone i* divided into three parts, from the sharp tip to where it reaches the flat part of the hone—theae parts meaning the winter months of December, Janu ary and February. The goose-bone brought to this of fice shows that the forepart of Decem ber is white, tvpifyirfg mild weather, but after that, from the middle of December the goose-bone is very dark, which means that we are to have severe weather from now until the end ' of February. But, more than that, the black part of this particular goose-bone runs over into the flat part of the bone, indicat ing that even March will have its se vere weather. Thus far the goose-bone has been ▼indicated, for the beginning of De cember was pleasant, but nobody can say that the latter half of the month, thus far, has been by any means mild. Just what January anil February ami the beginning of March will be, tho bone says, and that means that yon mnv as well make up your minds to bur'i more coal than you had calculated ou using.