Daily News from New York, New York • 189

SUNDAY NEWS, AUGUST 9, 1925. MURDERER 'S WIFE WHO SWORE LOYALTY ADMITS SHE RE WED EVES' THEATRE TO HAVE ADAMS UNDER EAVES Mystery Shrouds Divorce of Mrs. Hoffman Women Smoke in Subway? Why, Sure 'Alto Fine! For the first time, a woman has been arrested for smoking in the subway. Two women, in fact Marion Magee, 24, an employe of the Radio Corporation of America, and Miss Sophie Rydzesky, 17, a Wall st. stenographer.

They were detected in the act of smoking in the rest room in the Grand Central sta-tinn tad Cmii ned $5. "My husband is innocent. I will never lose my faith in him." A little more than a year ago Mrs. Agnes Hoffman hiad thfrt-awinsilt, despite the action of a jury in finding her husband, Harry, gujlty of second CiZT2Z jrdMve-nection with the slaying of Mrs. Maud C.

Bauer on a lonely -am 1 ZT-r" Ill 0' 9 sty "taL Gloria Gould Bishop Gloria Gould Bishop Ushers in Ballet' Skirts To Aid Box Office. Staten Island Buoyed by those words, Hoffman started to Sing Sing to serve a term of from twenty years to life. Today Hoffman is disconsolate in his cell, having Teen informed that the wife who promised to be for- ever true, has secured a- divorce from himj about which there is a considerable element of mystery and, according to her statement, has remarried. He is apathetic regarding the appeal from his conviction that will be heard next October. Mrs.

Hoffman, or Rankin, as she is today, tells below, exclusively for THE NEWS, in her own words the tragic details of her life. Investigation fails, however, to bear out her story. Fruitless Search. A search of the records of Manhattan, Brooklyn and Richmond reveals no divorce granted her. Hoffman's attorney, former Judge Leonard Snitkin denies any knowledge of it, although Mrs.

Rankin declares he acted for her. Immediately after writing her story the former Mrs. Hoffman and her present husband, Frank Rankin, dis- Mrs. Agnes Hoffman Rankin appeared from their Elizabeth, N. home and went into hiding.

On March 25, 1924, two boys found the body of Mrs. Bauer. Suspicion pointed to Hoffman, who was identified by a 13-year-old girl as Mrs. Bauer's companion in an automobile on the day of her death. He was found guilty May 28, and the following day was sentenced.

Mrs. Bauer had entered the murderer's car after her own car had been stalled in mud and the stranger offered to take her to a garage for help. Mrs. Hoffman started divoree proceedings Jan. 15 of this year, -according to her story, and married Rankin July 8.

Her statement follows: By MRS. AGNES HOFFMAN RANKIN. Harry never did it. I would gladly go to the electric'chair maintaining his innocence. But waiting has been so -hard.

I visited him every two weeks. I've written every night. I've moved time and again to escape the pointing fingers of neighbors, I've spent every penny Harry and I saved for our home to get a new trial for him. And, 'since the week he went away, I've worked to keep a roof over the heads of our two babies. My love for him is dead.

If I was alone I could have wait ed. Harry does need me. But there is a greater need than his a est of New York's motion picture theatres. "All of the seats will be reserved just as they are in houses for spoken drama," said Mrs. Bishop.

"We are planning to ex-" hibit only the best of feature films and those who want to see a worth while picture will not have the hour of showing delayed with other forms of entertainment while they wait impatient.y for the picture to come on. "My mother enjoyed motion picture art very much and she often sent her chauffeur to try to reserve seats for the hour during the showing of the feature picture. But, of course, that was impossible. I have believed for a long time that many more people would go to movies if they could be sure of a choice scat whenever they arrived. If our patrons should miss the beginning of a film they can be 6ure that there will be no unnecessary delay in the beginning of the next showing of the film." To Resume Dances.

Gloria Gould Bishop's dancing classes, which she and her friend, Ada Grace Barker, began last win- The late Mrs. Henry A. Edith K. Gould Bishop Jr. Mother and husband of young theatre director.

ter at the Park Lane hotel, will be resumed in the fall. "We are studying with TarasofT this summer," she said. Mrs. Bishop declares that she loves having three or four things to do at once. "Most of the work he is giving us is too advanced for the children in our classes.

But-we want to go on with our dancing and then a teacher needs so much material to do successful instruction." Being a dancing teacher, theatre director, wife and mother, constitute just an ordinary existence for Mrs. Bishop. She expects to do many other interesting things. FUNERAL BOUQUETS FOR MAN, 24, ALIVE San Francisco, Aug. 8 Chester P.

Randall, 24, former attendant at the Veterans' hospital at Palo Alto; walked into the police station with a clipping" telling of his drowning. "I have been receiving flowers for several days and appreciate them," Randall said. in today's SUNDAY NEWS. "Call the Doctor!" Hill's hu-man comics. Pages 18 and 19.

Editorial. Page 11. Men's fashions. Page 13. Corinne Lowe's fashion notes.

Page 16. Children's corner. Page 22. Sunda? patterns. Page 27.

Reggie Marsh's theatrical cartoons, drama news. Page 2.1. Mildred Spain's movie review, Hollywood notes. Page 29. Gotham Glimmerings.

Pag 29. Sport news and pictures begm ion page 32. Gloria Gould was convinced of the inefficiency of men in the theatre at the impressionable age of 10 years. Now that she is all of 19 and has been two years married to Henry Bishop jr. and has a baby daughter, she still believes that women are more dependable, So the first woman director who will manage a movie theatre in New York says that even the projection machine operator in the Embassy theatre will be a woman.

"The Merry Widow" will open with the task of jerking back the 1 1 i i Mrs. Maud C. Bauer narry Hoffman Victim and her murderer. greater need than mine. Our little ones.

Mildred is 6. She has her daddy's eyes. Beany, he called her. She was his pet. She talks of him continually.

And used to count the days until it was time to go and see daddy at "his new job playing in the band at that place so far away he can't come home very often." It will be a long time before I can take her back to see him now. I'm afraid of what he will say. I'm afraid, he won't understand. Dorothy is 2. She doesn't remember Harry.

Both of them need a father. Both of them need, and so do a chance to start life anew among people who do not know us as the family of a convicted murderer. Moved Frequently. The day after Harry went away I went to look for work. And found it.

I received $18 a week. I moved again and again to escape from those that knew me. It was useless. I finally stayed at 352 Winant st. Neighbors had to take care of the babies during the daytime.

I did my housework at night and on Sundays made and washed the children's clothes. I was lonesome. I was afraid of my friends. And then last Christmas day Frank, he is Frank Rankin, came. I had known him before I married Hoffman.

I am only 29. He is 20, but he looks and acts much older. And then well I guess it was love from that day. He told me a month later that he would marry me if I were free. And he loves the children.

And I love him. I went to the lawyer that is getting a new trial for Harry. We filed the suit for divorce in January. It was granted in March. Harry knew.

But I couldn't bring myself to tell him I was going to marry again. The Marriage. On July 8 last, we were married in the Greenwich Ave. Presbyterian church. We spent our honeymoon in Newark, N.

J. We both liked New Jersey, so I sold my furniture, sent for the babies, Frank went to work for the railroad and we came to live with friends. And then I wrote Harry. I'm happy. Well most of the time anyway.

Only I think of Harry. Like last night when hymns were played in the church across the street- Harry loved music and was a church organist. i cneu ana inai neipea. Frank is different in every way. And he is going to helD me do everything I can to secure a new trial for Harry.

The papers are all drawn up and our lawyer tells us fte is going to file his appeal in October. And when Harrv is free he can take one of the children. I want him to be just as happy as I am going to be. curtain was nowhere to be found, Not to be cheated of her great moment, Gloria dashed out, drew the curtain aside and hastened back to her sweetheart's embrace. The Magnets.

"Now you will understand why I want the ushers, stage hands and all the other workers in the Embassy to be women," Mrs. Bishop said with her happy, dimpled smile. "But it is not a theatre exclusively for women. I am designing costumes now and I am inclined to think that pretty ushers in merry widow costumes with wide ballet skirts ought to insure us a good percentage of men in the audience." Prorogues, news reels, comedies and divertisements are being discarded in her plans for the small- Don't Miss these features Cash for crossword puzzles! Try one. Page 13.

The Feuds of Bloody Breathitt. Pages 8 and 9. First love is best, says Doris Blake. Page 17. Children stepping into old film stars' shoes.

Page 4. Antoinette Donnelly on hot weather diets. Page 14. True story, "A Thiers Three Errors." Page 10. About Broadway.

Page 5. Rafael Sabatini's new serial, "The Gates of Doom." Page 20. "Mex," a short story by Mary Synon. Page 24. tnis new mm nouse oi ine meiro-Goldwyn-Mayer Company the latter part of this month.

"When I was 10, I wrote a play myself, so, of course the big part was mine," Miss Gould explained. Or perhaps Mrs. Bishop would be better, since the youngest daughter of the late George Jay Gould does not want to be mistaken for a Lucy Stoner. Young Playwright. "Two boys and a girl who were my playmates rehearsed faithfully for a week or more; then, just the day before our play was to be presented, all three of them got mad at me.

We quit speaking and they went home. In desperation I de cided that my little niece and nephew, my sister Marjorie's children, would have to take their roles." A star is not a star without a supporting cast, so little Gloria Gould, with the encouragement of her mother who was beautiful Edith Kingdon, an actress of note before her marriage, rehearsed her big scene with the Drexel children who were visiting with their mother, Mrs. Anthony J. Drexel at the palatial Gould home, Georgian court, at Lakewood, N. J.

It was an exciting scene where plush curtains were suddenly drawn aside, disclosing the leading lady in the arms of her love. Gloria and her companion were ready to be discovered. Indeed they waited anxiously to be revealed but the boy who had been trusted.