Sewickley Herald

              The Sewickley Valley’s Home News Weekly
Voi. 45 No. 2
SEWICKLEY, PENNA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1948
Price Ten Cents
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Dr. Arthur Twomey
AUDUBON SOCIETY , ‘Blue Bahamas’ by Dr. Arthur Twomey 1 ; The'Edgeworth Club and Audubon ; Society of Sewickley Valley will present
te Curator of the Carnegie Museum, r. Twomey, in a fascinating story of ro expeditions to the beautiful Bahama
(Islands, at the Edgeworth Club on Sun-lay evening, January 11th, at 8:15 p. m.
Aboard the yacht, Silver King, Dr. ’womey takes his audience to Nassau, rst city of the Bahamas, Tom Brown’s lay, Grand Bahama, Grand Cay, PoWell nd Munjack cays, historic New Plymouth Town on Green Turtle Cay, ibaco, Ilopetown—the former metropo-t s °f the Bahamas, and famous Walker’s i|ay, the paradise for yachtsmen, where, '»st off the reef, lie the finest big-game
«wishing waters of the Atlantic coast.
Dr. Twomey shows quaint villages
whose inhabitants, descendants of the fabulous salvage pirates, eke their living from a turbulent ocean and an infertile land; picturesque natives living in thatched huts; exotic fish and exquisite flowers; and the indescribably beautiful water so clear that the very ridges of the ocean’s floor are readily visible on calm days.
Eilm studies include gorgeous pink flamingos, graceful egrets, hummingbirds, laughing gulls, Bahama wood-stars, honey creepers, and such arctic nesters and more northerly warblers that winter in the Bahamas as the ruddy tumstone, semi-palmated sandpiper, sanderling and others.
Dr. Twomey has pleased local audiences on previous appearances and will find an enthusiastic reception awaiting him.
GETS RID OF $10,000
Daughters Take' Mother Home
1 Sewickley police, uneasy guardians fir homeless woman and her $10,01 pice December 30th, breathed a colli ye sigh of relief Saturday aftema ¡¡men s^e ant^ ber two daughters board «train in Coraopolis for Buffalo, N. tJI was not serene, however, as M ¡¡dome Friscliertz tried to run aw pm tlie Coraopolis station, but v ppped and brought back by a Co: bolis police officer who had been s< pwn at the request of Chief Prend |st to make sure there was no troub ¿Before they left Sewickley in t »lice ear with Lt. Jones, the daughti Tfd paid for $6 worth of telephone ca J Buffalo and $5 worth of meals cc |med by their mother while she was Jiest in the Woman's cell in the Sewi< BY lock-up for nearly five days. Tli |so Save Chief Prendergast $25 rewc j|r the courtesy and kindness shown Mce to their mother. Her horde 9,894,88 cash, less $194.88 advanced |rs‘ Friscliertz to buy new clothes Year’s Day, was deposited in feal bank despite the fact that it w Iturday afternoon, Then, the datif Is Were issued a cashier’s check :
quiring both their signatures, so that they wouldn’t have to worry about the money as well as their mother on the trip home. Chief Prendergast also gave the daughters a letter to the conductor of the train, explaining the situation, in case the daughters needed help on the trip.
It was their second trip here, as they left on New Year’s Day without either their mother or the money after they had experienced difficulty with her in a local hotel, preparing for the journey. After they had brought Mrs. Frischertz back to the station that day, Chief Prendergast tried to turn her over to District' Attorney Leslie, but he would have nothing to do with the case.
Mrs, Frischertz had been taken into protective custody Tuesday of last week after she had purchased a ticket to Philadelphia pt the Sewickley station of the’ Pennsylvania Railroad and then allowed three trains, which would have made connections with Philadelphia, go by without boarding any of them, ‘Hnnk’ Williamson, local agent, became suspicious of her actions and called Sewickley police.
Officers R. A, Colledge and Frank Harwood brought her to police headquarters, where she was questioned by Chief Thomas Prendergast. She had
Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Turner
Joseph John Start
New County Detective
Joseph J. Start of 60 Backbone Road, was sworn in as an Allegheny County Detective on Monday. He has been a carrier and driver at the Sewickley Post Office for the last two years, since his return from the Army. He entered the service August 22, 1942, at which time he was employed by the Sewickley Sanitary Milk Company. After training with the AFF in Florida, Washington and Montana, he went overseas as a sergeant in a bomber crew and was stationed in England in January, 1944.
For the -time being, at least, District Attorney William S. Raliauser is retaining County Detective Samuel Graham of Emsworth and Norman Abercrombie, of the Ohio River Boulevard, Sewickley. However, in his statement, the new district attorney stated that some of the group of 14 county detectives, 3 identification experts and 14 other office employees would be retained permanently if their work was good; others were retained because of cases or other work in which they are now engaged and still others will be replaced as soon as successors are chosen. He gave no further information as to the status of those retained for the present.
Celebrate 50th Anniversary Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Turner of 632 Grimes Street, celebrated their 50th Wedding. Anniversary with an open house on Christmas Day. There were 250 friends and relatives who called during the day and the presents they brought were 'enormous and beautiful’! They were married in Sewickley by Reverend J. IV. Kirk and have been residents of the Valley f or about 55 years. Mr. Turner was with the Willock family for 38 $ears. Mr. Turner is 72 and Mrs. Turner is 71.
The couple had fourteen children, of
which ten are living and were all present at the 50th anniversary. They are Wellington J. Turner of Hyannis, Mass., better known as ‘Doc’ a long-time employee of Geo. K. Stevenson Company store jhere; John H. Turner of Chicago; Robert F. Turner of Hyannis, Mass., Charles R. Turner of Sewickley; Lawrence Turner of Boston Mass.; Mrs. Sara Tooks of Chatham, Mass.; Mrs. Dorothy Jones of Sewickley; Mrs. Mary Taylor of Sewickley; Mrs, Ethel Coy of Pittsburgh and Miss Helen Turner of Sewickley. There are also ten grandchildren in the family.
been traveling through New Jersey and Washington, as she carried stationery of New Jersey hotels and a key to a Washington hotel room in, her purse. She said she had worked fbr a family on Park Avenue, in New York, so a teletype message was sent to New York police. They merely replied that they did not want her on any charges.
About $2,000 in smaller bills were sewed inside a white cloth container; $40 in $5 bills were in her. wallet, along with the change and car checks and tile remainder was in a brown envelope. In addition to the cash, she had stock certificates for 24 shares of Liberty Share Corporation < Stock and a number of shares of Niagara Share Corporation qf Maryland stock. The stocks were issued in 1932, but she said they Were now valuable again.
She told police at first that she had $2,000, because she was afraid that if she toM them $10,000 they might take iti But'later, in the presence of The Herald reporter, she said she didn’t know how much was in her horde, as she had spent quil,o a bit lately. She thought, however, that it would be a little less than $10,000.
Her naturalization papers revealed that she had come to this country from a farm near Strasbourg, France, about
40 years ago. She explained that she had inherited money from both her father and mother when-they died but had lost most of it in bank crashes during the depression. Since then, she had worked as a day worker and with the Park Avenue* family as Kelly Hays and had kept the cash with her wherever she went. In all her recent wanderings, she had never been questioned by police or other authorities until .she arrived in Sewickley and was held by police for investigation.
On Wednesday, after a thorough investigation by the local officers, two of her daughters were located’in Buffalo, N. Y, The third had died, but she did not know it, as she had not been in communication with her daughters since she walked out of the home of Mrs, Mary Bidell, one of the daughters, about 15 years ago. Chief Prendergast located Mrs. Bidell and talked to her on the phone nnd she said they had been looking for her mother, even in France, but had never been able to find a trace of her. Mrs. Bidell also talked to her mother, nnd told Chief Prendergast that they would come nnd take her home, before he revealed the fact that Mrs. Frischertz had any money at all. Chief Prendergast also talked with a Buffalo attorney who knesv the family well.
When Mrs.'Bidell and Mrs. J. Hamisch, the other daughter, arrived here New Year’s Day for a joyful reunion with their mother, she disclaimed them entirely and said they weren’t her daughters, as they had changed’so much. However, after tlie three talked for some time, recalling many events in their happier past, she agreed to purchase some new clothes and go back with them to Buffnlo. The daughters revealed that their mother had formerly owned a store in Buffalo and had sold it. They were unable to trace her because she used •an assumed name, although she protested that she had done nothing wrong, but "lots of people use other names.” Her aversion to banks was traced to losses incurred in bank failures and the stock market crash in ’29.
The daughters revealed finally, that their mother had been in an institution in Buffalo, before she disappeared. The family attorney will try to have her turned _ over to New York authorities again, with the funds under the care of a guardian.
Action of the Sewickley police, in safeguarding the woman and her money is in contrast with Aliquippa police, several of whom were fired recently On charges of stealing from an overturned trailer truck.