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J. J. KRON SOLYED
CRUGERMYSTERY
Chief Detective on Mrs. Grace
Humiston's Staff Was Man
Who Found Missing
New York Girl.
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIW
New York City, Aug. 10. With
the Ruth Cruger case and the
subsequent activities of Mrs. Grace
Humiston, the missing girt has be
come the leading figure in the sensa
tional drama of the New York streets.
Everybody is trying to find her; the
newspapers are full of her; lawyers,
philanthropists and policemen are
making reputations out of her.
But the one man who has probably
put more time and thought on the
missing girl problem than any other
person, who solved the Rhuth Cruger
mystery and a number of others,
seems to have been barely mentioned.
He is Jules J. Kron, chief" detective on
Mrs. Humiston's staff, a former em
ploye of the United States Depart
ment of Justice and a detective whose
originality of method and variety of
adventures make him a fair candidate
far Sunday newspaper publicity.
Hungarian by Nationality.
Mr. Kron, however, neither looks
nor thinks the part. In person he is
about five feet tour, a Hungarian by
nationality, and modest by nature. His
attitude toward life is intensely prac
tical. Take, for example, the way he
solved the Ruth Cruger mystery as
.Mrs. HumCston's assistant, which is
the only thing about the famous case
that has never been told. When Mr.
Kron sets out to solve a crime he not
only goes back to the very beginning
of the incident, Dut to the very birth
of the criminal. His first step, there
fore, was to trace Ruth Cruger's his
tory from the day she was born. He
discovered that she was, and always
hail been, a girl of particularly strong
and honorable character, the kind of
girl who was not likely to be easily
persuaded to run away from home. At
that time the case was a complete
mystery. Not a breath of suspicion
had touched the Italian, Cocchi; the
police believed the girl to be alive, and
the general public was thoroughly
convinced that she was bad.
Mr. Kron, on the other hand, wast
ed no lime on theories concerning a
false sweetheart. He knew that he
.vas on the track of a criminal of the
worst order. The only other clew he
nad was that the girl had taken her
skates to be repaired at Cocchi's
workshop around the corner on the
day that she disappeared. Mr. Kron's
perspective at once narrowed to the
Italian. He made a house-to-house
canvass of the neighborhood, ques
tioning men, women and-children as
to what they knew and saw of Cocchi,
and finally he came upon a bjt of in
formation that aroused his interest.
Two men told him that at midnight
on the two successive nights follow
ing the disappearance of the Cruger
girl they had seen Cocchi come up
out of the cellar beneath his workshop
yi a stealthy manner, his clothes cov
ered with dirt.
Case Practically Solved.
From that time on Mr. Kron was
firmly convinced that Ruth Cruger
was dead and that her body was
buried in that cellar. Kron recognized
this type of murder; he had seen it
often before. A few years ago Kron
was called to Budapest by the chief of
police of that' city to help solve a
murder case. A woman had been
found with her throat slashed in the
kitchen of a farm house, and her
daughter of J 5 h3d disappeared. Three
months had gone by when Kron ar
rived on the scene, in which time the
father had gone insane, and the police
had still failed to locate the girl. The
detective made a thorough search of
the premises. On the stoop of the
farm house in the crevice of a rotteji
piece of wood he unearthed an Amer
ican dime. In the kitchen stove, un
used during the summer months, he
discovered handkerchief covered
with blood unmistakably a product
of the United States of America. The
case was practically solved.
All that Kron had to find out after
this was the name of the American
or the man who had been in Ameri
cawho had frequented this farm
house. He soon found him working
as an assistant barkeeper in a vil
lage not thirty miles away. The mur
derer had been a former employe on
the farm and had become infatuated
with the daughter, whom he had
known since she was a baby. He had
gone to America, but his infatuation
had brought him back. He had wait
ed until all the men were away from
the farmhouse. Then he had tried
to carry the girl away; the mother
had screamed and so he killed her,
and when the girl resisted him he had
killed her too, and buried her body
in the neighboring woods.
How He Used Confession.
When Kron had secured this con
fession from his man by tempting
him with enough money to get away,
he phoned his friend, the chief of po
lice, and together they excavated the
girl's body. From Budapest Kron
returned to the United States just in
time to be employed by the police
Tjf New Jersey in collecting evidence
on a somewhat similar murder ase.
In, this instance, the police had cap
tured a German-American whom they
believed to have committed the mur
der of a little girl in a lonely stretch
of woods, but they did not have
enough evidence to construct a case.
Kron immediately assumed the per
sonality of a man of the underworld
who by stealthy means had acquired
i lot of money but was something
nf a fool. He then hunted the German-American
up and allowed him
self to become his tool. They lived
in the same room on the money sup
plied by Kron, they dined at the same
nlaces. and the detective soon knew
the whole life of his man aH except
the murder, which he scrupulously
avoided. Then Kron decided to force
the issue in what he considers a most
practical way, but which sounds de
cidedly theatrical to the average citi
zen. He hired an Italian to go and
stand bv a certain tree in a neigh
boring stretch of woods, and then he,
Kron, accompanied by the German-
American, crept up on the Italian ana
shot him. Then they fled.
The revolver with which Kron per
petrated his murder contained only
blank cartridges, but the German
American did not know it, and neither
did he know that the two copies of
newspapers which Kron showed him
the next morning, containing giant
'leadlines of a murder of a certain
Italian, were the only two copies in
New Jersey which did refer to it.
From that time forward Kron avoid
ed his quarry. He pretended fo fear
that the German-American was going
to tell on him. Inasmuch as Kron
had all the money, the man was
anxious to reassure him. And at
Irngth, in order to do so, lie confessed
t the murder of the little girl. A
dictaphone in the next room took
down the confession, and the German-American
was the first man to
be electrocuted in the state of New
Jersey. Two Classes of Criminals.
Mr. Kron believes that criminals
are distinctly separable into two
classes those who are born criminals
and those who are made so. The
born criminal is the man who care
fully plans his crime; the made crim
inal is one who commits it in a
moment of passion. Mr. Kron has
no sympathy with the former, al
though he occasionally permits him
self to feel sorry fo the latter. He
is particularly vindictive towards
thieves.
New York department stores, he
estimates, lose between fifty and six
ty thousand dollars a year on account
of thieves. Rugs, parasols, furniture,
lingerie, gloves, wearing apparel and
other valuable articles disappear by
the hundreds in the hands of shop
lifting gangs. It is hard to imagine
oneself running away with a good
sited rug, but it is not hard for the
experienced shop-lifter, who has been
known to appear without a hat, note
book in hand, and walk out with an
expensive Persian rug under arm,
leaving the impression that she is a
salesgirl.
Moreover, the shop-lifting habit is
not confined to professionals. The
wealthy have been known to amuse
themselves with this fascinating
habit. Mr. Kron says that he once
followed and observed a New York
society woman, accompanied bv her
lover, steal several articles in a de
partment store when she wore
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carried a checking account of thou
sands. The couple were subsequently
arrested by the store detective, but
they were acquitted upon returning
the goods, the man claiming that he
was the woman's physician and had
ta,ken the shopping tour in order to
study her.
House Thieves His Quarry.
Mr. Kron has also made a spe
cialty of arresting house thieves,
which he says are the cleverest and
craftiest in the criminal world of
New York. This type of thief we are
familiar with on the stage. He or
she usually gets a position as butler
or governess in a wealthy household
and then proceeds to rob it of its dia
monds. Such a case as this was one
Jane Kenyon, who was ladies' maid to
one of the wealthiest society women
of New York. Jewelry to the extent
of $60,000 was stolen in this house
hold, but no one thought of suspect-'
ing lane. When Mr. Kron arrived
as the agent of a prominent insurance
company and asked to sneak to Jane,
her mistress became indignant and in
sisted that she would not have her
maid insulted, that she would trust
her with her life itself. Nevertheless,
Mr. Kron did not trust Jane, He
made some inquiries and found that,
although it was the usual practice of
the girl to go out with her friends on
her day out, for four weeks following
the robbery she had not left the house.
He therefore stationed himself oo-
posite the house and waited for Jane
to appear. She did at last, late One
night, running hurriedly down the
steps, to the mail box where he
mailed a letter, and then running
back again.
As it happened Jane s letter was
the first to go in the box after the
mail had been collected, so Mr. Kron
left one of his assistants to guard the
box while he went to the nearest
postoffice for assistance. The letter
proved to be( addressed to Jane's
sweetheart, with whom she arranged
a meeting place the following day.
At noon the next day Jane drove, off
in a taxi, followed by Mr. Kron. After
riding two blocks, she discharged the
taxi and boarded a downtown street
car which she soon changed for an
uptown one, and then took a down
town subway. Thus she led the de
tective a aimcuit cnase, our wnen
she entered a cafe on the Bowery
he was not far behind her. Ten. min
utes later he was rewarded by being
able to arrest Jane and her partner
just as she handed him $60,000 worth
of jewelry.
Motion Pictures Selected
With Care at Manawa
The free outdoor motion pictures,
shown every evening at MAnawa
park, are selected with great care.
"Outdoor crowds are peculiar in that
they want to see action, and at the
same time a clean story with a
moral," said Operator Weatherley.
"Comedy never fails to make a big
hit with an outdoor crowd." Hun
dreds see the pictures at Manawa
every evening.
George Green's concert band will
play a concert at 2 this afternoon,
lasting three hours, and one equally
long beginning at 7 p. m. The mo
tion pictures will be shown during a
part of the concert.
Manawa's dance pavilion is attract
ing record crowds daily. While there
was a let-up in the number of bathers
during last week, the number was
surprisingly high when the cool
weather is considered. Although the
weather was .cool, the water was
warm.
Green concert band programs for
today, 2 to S p. m.
March "The New York Hippodrome"
Rous
Overture "The Merry Wives of Wind
sor" Nicola!
Interpolations from "Her Soldier Boy,"
Clifford and Romberg-.
Baritone solo "Rocked In the Cradla of
the Deep," played by Joe Placeprttl
Rolllson
Patrol "Yankee" ...Meacham
Grand selection "Marltana" Wallace
Valse "Adlyn" ....Hall
Medley overture popular melodies ISA
.Remlck
Reverie "Twilight Dreams" Thurban
Grand fantasia on Scotch melodies
Godfrey
7 TO 10 P. M.
March "The Stars and Stripes Forever"
Bousa
Cornet olo "Souvenir de La Suisse,"
Pr. A. D. Laird Llberatl
Dance "Oriental" , ...La Come
Overture "A Queen for a Day" Adam
Grand selection "Rlgoletto" Verdi
Valse "Tojours ou Jamls" (fver or
Never) Waldteufcl
Selection "You'ra In Love" Frime
Patriotic patrol "Spirit of America"
Zamecntk
Invitation to dance (by request). .Von Weber
Fantasia on American melodies..... Hotmcr
Kansas City Street Car Strike
Ties Up Traffic Completely
Kansas City, Mo., Aug. 11. Kan
sas City got to work as best it could
again today, the fourth day of the
complete tie-up of all street car traffic
which has resulted from a strike of
employes of the Kansas City Rail
ways' company, thebperating organ
ization. The men, according to their
spokesman, have struck because it
was alleged their demands for the
right to organize had been ignored.
Persistent Advertising Is the Road
to Succ-
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Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Coolidge of
Columbus, Neb., celebrated their six
tieth wedding antiivesary last Sunday.
They have had thirteen children,
twenty-three grandchildren and eight
great grandchildren.
Their living children are Henry P.
Coolidge, born in 1835 at Little Maca
naw. 111.; Theda Wheeler Coolidge,
born in 1S4 1 at Malvern, la.; J. W.
Coolidge, of Council Blurt's; Will
Coolidge, of Rosalie, Neb.; C. B.
Coolidge and A. L. Coolidge of Lead,
S. D.
Henry Coolidge is one of the seven
teen of Troop I, Eighth Iowa Cavalry,
remaining after the battle of Lookout
Mountain.
WOMEN VOTERS TO
HOLD BIG MEETING
Demonstrations of Vegetable
Drying to Be Given at
Central Park School
Tuesday Night.
The Woman Voters' Conservation
league plans a big opening to be held
Tuesday night at the Central 1'ark
school, Forty-second and Grand ave
nue, at 6 o'clock.
A demonstration of drying vegeta
bles, in raw form, hydrated, rehydra
ted, and cooked, will be given by Mrs.
Harriet McMurphy. These vegetables
will be served as refreshments at the
close of the meeting. ,
Mrs. Herbert Cox and Mrs. Kate
Remington will assist Mrs. McMur
phy with her demonstration.
Edward A. Smith will address the
meeting. Edward A. Sinnett will talk
on the municipal drying plant in Cen
tral Park school, most of the work on
which has been done by him.
The Woman Voters' Conservation
league, desirous of saving the great
amount of fruit and vegetables that
is often thrown out by grocers, gar
deners and truckmen at night, be
cause it will not keep until morning,
now announce that if any dealers in
fresh fruit and vegetables will tele
pone a woman on the following list,
the league will call for the produce
immediately and it will be dried at
league expense. Their list of women
who stand ready to come at a mo
ment's notice to collect this produce
is as follows:
Mrs. Frances Follansbec, Harney
1836.
Mrs. A. N. Evans, Harney 3730,
Mrs. Herbert McCoy, Harnev 3055.
Mrs. John Miller, Webster 3290.
Mrs. A. C. Anderson, Harney 3715.
Mrs. Herbert Cox, Colfax 2-128.
Mrs. William Berry, Omaha phone,
Douglas 4480; South Side phone,
South 848.
One Night Each Week.
Henceforth, Tuesday night of each
week will be known as Women
Voters' Conservation league night.
On this night members of the league
are urged to make a special effort to
bring to the drying plant one market
basket of produce, prepared for dry
ing. This does not mean that all
others with vegetables or fruits to dry
are barred on this particular night,
however.
On Monday afternoon at 3, in the
South Side public library, the women
of South Side will organize an auxil
iary to the Woman Voters' Conserva
tion league. Mrs. Mary Howe has
charge of the work of organization.
This will be a mass meeting and the
general public is invited. Mrs. Har
riet McMurphy will talk on the "Ne
cessity of Food Conservation." Karl
Schrieber of the welfare board will
describe the operation of the drying
plant at Central Park school. The
work of the new South Side drying
plant will be discussed. Mayor Dalil
man will also give a short talk.
South Side Plant.
The South Side drying plant is now
an assured fact, and apparatus will be
installed Monday. An attendant from
the welfare board will be in constant
charge of the plant, which will be lo
cated in the South Side llifih school.
A third plant, to be installed in the
down town section of the city, will
begin operation as soon as the need
for it becomes apparent. The fan and
motors for this drying plant have
already been donated.
Since a total of three plants seems
now assured, the idea of substations
where produce was to be collected and
later taken to the drying plants, has
been abandoned. The uncertainty of
teamster service is assigned as one
reason for giving up this plain.
Jazz Band is Popular
At the Empress Garden
The Empress garden announces that
owing to popular demand, that the
dainty Bell Sisters will be held over
for today and ?.ll week. They are
without a doubt the most popular en
tertainers that haye thus far appeared
at this beauty spot, and are pleasing
the patrons even better than manager
Philbin imagined at the time he
booked thorn, altnough knowing they
would register a distinct hit. They
are. to begin with, pleasing to the eye
ana nave attractive personalities.
Their oices are sweet and their
enunciation is splendid. They are al
so graceful dancers, while their cos
tumes further enhance their act. Their
appearance is always greeted with ap
plause and it has so far been neces
sary for them to respond to numerous
encores. The crowds continue to
gather here and partake of their meals
amidst restful surroundings, while
graceful dancers e.njoy themselves to
the strains of Adam's Jazz orchestra,
A special table d'hote dinner is served
on Sunday's that is meeting with es.
pecial favor.
Bee Want Ads Produce Results, f
AUGUST, MONTH OF
FUR SAVINGS
Dresher Brother Quote Reduced
Price On New Fur Piece
Made in August, a Welt a
Price Cut on Fur
Repairing, Etc.
KISH HAS RETURNED
Mr. Antone Kish, the expert Fur
Man in charge of the fur making,
repairing, remodeling and storage
departments of Dresner Brothers' vast
Dry Cleaning and Dyeing plant, at
2211-2217 Farnam street, is just back
from a lengthy eastern trip.
Kish has brought with him a num
ber of ideas which will beeomo pop
ular among Omaha ladies during the
coming winter, and, if any of the
lady readers of this announcement
have in mind new fur pieces, they
would do well to have Mr. Kish de
sign and make up something for them
right now, during the slack season.
By having furs made up now you
will effect a considerable savings.
It's only natural, because furriers
arc not so busy in summer and offer
you inducements to busy their shops.
The same applies to all fur repairing,
remodeling and cleaning done at
Dreshera now. If you have any work
along these Jines have it done now
and reap the price benefit.
Remember, you'll save greatly by
having any sort of fur work done
at Dreshers during August.
Just phone Tyler 345 for a man,
leave your work at the plant, at
Dresher The Tailors, 1515 Farnam
street, or at one of the Dresher
branches in the Brandeis or Burgess
Nash stores. Dreshers pay express or
parcel post charges one way on all
shipments.
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OPENING
Wednesday August 15th
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of his new bakery and lunch room, occupying the entire
first and second floors of his new building, at 214-16
North 16th street.
No expense has been spared to make this the most com
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