Evening Star Newspaper, July 20, 1910, Page 1

In Washington about one WEATHER. ht atid Thursday ; not much change in temperature, with light variable winds. who reads at all reads The Star. Largest circulation—daily and Sunday. CONTAINING ON PAGE 15 CLOSING ——————————————— NEW_YORK_ STOCK QUOTATIONS. Che Lvenin No. 18,194. ——ey ONE OENT. WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1910—SIXTEEN PAGES. CAN'T FILL THE BILL Butler Ames Doesn’t Create Enthusiasm as Lodge’s Foe. ELECTION NOT EXPECTED ———— Machine of the Party at the Sena. tor’s Call. OPENS HIS HEADQUARTERS Ledge Abandons His Usual Trip to Europe to Make a Vigorous Fight in Massachusetts. Special From a Staff Correspondent. BOSTON, July 2).—The fact that* Sena- tor Lodge abandoned his usual trip to Burope, and for the first time opened political headquarters of his own, sepa- rate from the republican state headquar- ters, led some politicians here to think that he takes serious! the declared in- tention of Butler Ames to try to defeat him for the United States senatorship. Mr. Ames, it will be recalled, entered the senatorial race immediately after the adjournment of Congress, y issuing most sanguinary threats and avowing the firm determination to defeat Senator Lodge. Ames’ friends say that Senator Lodge's present course is indicative of belief that the Ames candidacy js a menace to Lodge's hold upon his seat in the Senate. Senator Lodge's friends assert that such is not the case. that the opening of separate headquarters was to prevent the charge being made that he was using the state machine in gubernatorial and state election to further his own po‘itical ambitions. They say the trip to Europe was adandoned because of his realization that the campaign this fall for state and legislative offices means a fight and that as one of the great republican leaders of the state his place is in the field during 2 campaign. Little Enthusiasm for Ames. I fall to find among prominent and in- fluential republicans the feeling that Mr. Ames can defeat Senator Lodge. Mr. Ames does not create enthusiasm as an opposition leader even among republican’ who would shed no tears if’ Senator Lodge could be defeated. The preponder- ance of sentiment as to Mr. Ames prob: ably is that he is an ambitious and hope- ful young man, who ts entitled to the which he will be called upon to pay and cheerfully. is very much in earnest is un- ‘That he has unbounded con- himself and is g tenacious also true. That he will add to iitics and to the vexation ‘Mr. Ames is resin cise ovo the thi 3 ‘upon the theory that anything {s aikely to happen in polities this fall, and some fs not far out*of-the way in surmise. If the legislature should close, though best posted republicans it will be dangerously close, might arise th which he could block Senator Lodge's ambit and there would be some comfort in that to . ames, though he did not get the senatorship himself. Democratic Alliance Rejected. Mr. Ames’ friends declare positively that he will not be @ party to the demo- cratic proposition recently broached by ‘tzgerald, that in case of a close legis- lature, with a small republican majority, the Ames men should unite with the democrats and elect Ames. He will not listen to that; he is a republican, doesn't want anything from the democrats. He knows that such a proposition would con- ¢emn him with the old-line republicans who sniff at his democratic ancestry any- way. But Senator Lodge is taking no chance with Mr. Ames. He is watching every move and coppering them where he can. As one of Senator Loig friends ‘remarked today, Senator Lodge piayn polities as an exact science, dem- onstrated mathematically. He leaves nothing to chance. He is farsee:ng and canny. That spirit, they declare, ac- counts for his presence in the state at this timg and bis opening of p>rsonal headquarters. Rodége a Shrewd Manager. Senator Lodge han the machine of the Tepublican party at hie call. He possesses the respect and confidence of republicans im, cases where he does net command their affection. Temperamentally he is not magnetic. He in reserved, exclusive, $f you please, but a mighty shrewd pollt- fcal manager when st comon to coid and practical polities, He would deem it an ineffabie dis- aco to be defeated by stich a juntor Mr. Ames, a reflection upon his Political acumen. There is an element in fhe party, I am told by prominent re- fcans, whose foell toward Mr. fo have been shading down from lukewarmn to indifference and finally to disiike, but it {* question 4@shether Mr. Ames is the man to warm that sen- timent into open hostility to Senator Lodge and head tt suc tty. I see no indication that the contest between Benator Lodge and Mr. Ames, or to put it more exactly, Mr. Ames’ con- test of Benator Lodge's hold upon the republican party, will affect the state campaign to any considerable degree. ‘The first thing is to elect the legislature, ard it is exceedingly doubtful if pre- Gileetion of candidates for Lodge or Ames will enter into the attitude of Voters toward them. § ‘ROBBER KILLS RAWN |President of Monon Route Shot Through Heart. PATREBER INJURED, MAYBE | Railroad Man Went to Investigate Suspicious Night Noises. TWO REPORTS ARE HEARD Family Find Him Dying in Hallway. Murderer Escapes—Used Jimmy to Break In. | CHICAGO, UL, July 20.—Ira G. Rawn | president of the Chicago, Indianapolis | and Louisville railway (the Monon route), was shot through the heart and instant- ly Killed at 1:30 o'clock this morning by a burglar who entered his summer home in Winnetka, suburb, fifteen miles north of Chicago. The berglar f a | 3 ed open the basement door to enter the house, and was heard prowling about the first floor. | Rawn went downstairs to investigate. Members of his family heard him say “What do you want here?’ Two sgots | were fired immediately afterward. Rawn Shot Through Heart. When they-hurried to the first floor Mr. doors which had been forced open. | A revolver with one empty cartridge Wa found near Mr. Rawns body. No trace of the second buliet could be found. The police believe that Mr. Rawn wounded his assailant. Two shots were heard. to determine whether Mr. murderer fired first. Belief that the murderer was wounded by Mr. Rawn was strengthened when the police found a trail of blood about 100 feet along a stone walk opposite the Rawn residence. Inquest Is Held. Coroner Hoffman and Deputy Coroner Webster went to Winnetka early today. A jury was empaneled and the inquest begun shortly after 8 o'clock. After taking Mr. Rawn's family his- tory, Coroner Hoffman postponed the in- quest until July 28. Investigation by the police showed that the burglar had forced open two front doors in breaking into the house. He was heard by Mr. Rawn before he had time to ransack any of the rooms. The burglar had apparently just en- tered the front hall when he was heard by Mr. Rawn, who started down stairs with a revolver in his hand. Nothing had been disturbed by the intruder. ‘The aseassination is the cifiii<™ to a reign of crime that has driven the resi- dents of the north shore suburb almost to a frenxgy. Story of Shooting. The story of the shooting of Mr. Rawn was told by Ralph G. Coburn, a son-in- law of the victim, this morning. “Mr. Rawn was awakened by sounds on the first floor of the house,” he said. “He insisted on going down to ascertain the cause, although Mrs. Rawn tried to Dersuade him not to do so. “He descended the stairs and had bare-| ly reached the landing when every one in the house was awakered by the roar of two shots fired in quick succession. “T rushed out, did the oth We found Mr, Rawn lying in his night clothes. Blood was trickling from his breast. “He struggled, turned over, tried to speak and could not. We sent in hurried calls for a doctor. ir, Rawn died within five or six min- utes after the shot had been fired. He did not regain consciousness. Police Sent For. “We immediately summoned the Win- netka police. It was they who found the mark on the door which established the fact that the crime had been com- mitted by a burklar. Other than that we have no ciew. “The house was occupied by Mr. an Mra, Rawn, their daughter, Mrs. B:gelow, and my wife and myself’ and our two children, There were also threo set ante in the house—the cook, Mrs, Rawn's ma! and Mra, Bigelow’n maid Of the reat of us heard the burg! A half hour after the murder had been committed detectives were hired by rela- tives of the dead man, “We will offer a reward," sald Mr, Coburn, “and spare no expense io capture the assasat: Last April the Rawns moved from thelr residence in Chicago to Winnetka. Mr. Rewn hag three daughters, ail mar- tied. They are Mrs. Robert C. Brinkley, It is impossible Rawn or the Mrs, Ralph G. Coburn and Mrs. Bigelow. Once a Telegraph Operator, Mr, Rawn was fifty-five years old, hay- ing been born August 20, 1855, at Del: ware, Ohio, He entered the railway norv- {ce in 1810, beginning as a telegraph oper- ator for the Big Four, His After rising to be trainmaster with that road he went to the Kentucky Central railway in 1887 as master of transporta- tion, Two years later he became division superintendent and superintendant of transportation of the Chesapeake and Onto raliroad. nn 1600 he was made general superin- tendent of the Baltimore and Ohio South- Hail the Barrels. However, a section of politicians hall Mr. Ames’ entry into the contest with ecclaim. It will come as manna from heaven at a time when famine threat- ened. Mr. Ames is expected to spend Uberally, and it can be guessed what will be the boys’ needs this fall, what with reform in publicity of cam} expenses pesuring @ scarcity of funds and the dis- ‘ position upon the part of erstwhile Iibera) ibutors to tighten up this year ard al t 4 of thing. . Ames’ bar'l in prospect sor the pepublicans and Mr. Foss’ bar'l for the the rank and file are be- gia already to ett up and look cheer- 1. N. OO. M CONTEST TO HEAD A. 0. H. Four Candidates for President Make Hot Campaign. PORTLAND, Ore., July 20.—A sharp contest is on in the Ancient Order of Hibernians over the national presidency. ‘The two most mentioned candidates for the office are Matthew Cummings, na- tional president, who is an avowed can- date for re-election,” and . M. an of Wisconsin. abide saan The cast seems to be pretty wei! - fled in Cummings. Almost Yeatalhices the middie west seems solld in favor of Prof. Rohan. - ‘There are two other candidates in the field, State President James J. Rogan rf Minnesota and. Jose; Fears D icLaughlin of western. He became general manager of that nystem in 1904 and in 1907 was made vice president, in charge of operation of the Iltnoia Central lines, Abotit a year ago he was elected president of’ the onon. HER “LAUGHABLE” RUSBAN’.” Woman Sends Message to Clerk of “Candy” Court. PITTSBURG, Pa. July 20.—"t fare. bid you give Santford Tennant any di- vuree, He is my laughable husban’, (Signed) “LUCRETIA TENNANT," The above missive, addresued to the clerk of the “candy court,” found ita way to W. H. Coleman, clerk of the county court, yosterd The divorce records were searched, ‘but there ho evidence of any Ilhel having been filed by “Bantford Tennant.” Luoretl fears, apparently, were groundless. BOY FIREBUGS LIKED FLAMES, Twelve and Thirteen Year Old Youths Do $50,000 Damages, CHICAGO, July 20.—The youngest py- romaniacs in the history of Chicago were arrested today, and lave confessed to satting fire to eight bulldings in two da; The boys are Leroy Holaner, tweive ears old, and Harry Hanson, ‘thirteen, The boys said they Ilked to see the Bitne total Joss caused by the boys Is timated at $50,000. sf Mr. | Rawn was lying at the foot of the stairs dying, with a bullet through his| heart. The murderer e: ped. The fact that the murder com- | mitted by a burglar was ed by | the finding of “jimmy” marks on the LIGHT ON MYSTERY Mrs. Young, Shot in Chicago, Lived Here Last Year. |RIGDON OFTEN VISITED HER Man Roused Corcoran Street One Night by Smashing Windows. | WOMAN LEFT CITY SUDDENLY Disappeared Without Stopping to | Take Furniture Away—Once Wealthy Broker Buried. The cloud of mystery which has been thrown around the movements in Wash- ington of Mrs. Alexander Young, who was shot in Chicago by Charles W. Rig- don, lifted today. It was learned | that little more than a year ago Mrs./ Young ived at 1812 Corcoran street | Inorthwest, and that Rigdon was a fre-| quent visitor there during her,occupancy house. was of th But the woman, who went by the name} lof Mrs. Aimie Young, left the house sud denly after she had been living there} about three months without even moving | away the furniture. Since her sudden | | disappearance she has not been seen at) the Corcoran street house, but it a known that she is been in Washington. i | Mrs. Young's sudden disappearance} came shortly after an episode in which Rigdon figured and which caused much xcitement in house April the neighborhood of the | in Corcoran street. One night in| last year Rigdon arrived at the| It was dark. He could get no re- ponse to repeated rings at the doorbell. There was no key to let him in and no trace of Mrs. Young. Exasperated, Rig- don, it is declared, seized his cane and smashed all the windows on the lower floors of the house. The sound of break- ing glass drew a crowd quickly. The} rumor spread that some one was being murdered, and a call was sent for the police. But before the policemen arrived Rigdon had vanished. Went Away Suddenly. A few days after this Mrs. Young dis- appeared. One neighbor said today that | she had gone to a Maryland suburb with | the purpose of buying a house there. But she wrote to another that she had met reverses ia the stock market and was going to California. Later: letters were recelved here from her in California. Mrs.. Young was described as tall, hand- some, about twenty-eight or thirty years old, and Rigdon as a man between fifty and sixty years of age. Rigdon always was dressed with great care and in decid- edly ‘“sporty’’ -olothes--—-It--4s ~esid~thav he always had plenty of money to spend and seemed to be a man of means. Before Mrs. Young moved to the house in Corcoran street she lived with her mother and her sisters at 1834 1th street northwest, near. Dupont Circle. This pos- sibly is respowsible for the report from Chicago that her mother Hved at “1334 | Girele avenue, Dupont Circle." Mrs. | Young went under the name of Mrs. Aimie Tronnen, or Trojman, while living in 19th street. She was supporting her mother and sisters, it is said, and was| frequently away on business trips. ‘When Mrs. Young went to Corcoran street, however, her mother and sisters did not go with her. Mrs. Oscar J. Troj- as her mother calls herself, went te a boarding house in 13th street be- tween K and L streets and the sisters went to beard in R street. Furniture Stored. Mrs. Young's furniture, which she left behind her in her hurried exit, it is un- derstood, has been removed from the house and stored.. Aboyt five months go she called up the owner of the Cor- coran street house on the long-distance telephone and asked whether she could have possession of .the house again if she paid the back rent. She was told that she could have the house, but noth- ing more was heard from her. CHICAGO, Ill, July 20.—Perhaps the most pathetic feature of the tragedy of last Fri¢ay, in which Mrs. Emma Young was shot and Charles W. Rigdon killed himself, was presented yesterday at the funeral of the once wealthy mining broker. 5 Service in Little Room. ‘The service was read in a little dark- ened room in the rear of an undertaking establishment, and only four persons were present, three of these being relatives. Two carriages followed the hearse to Graceland cemetery, where the body wan cremated, Mrs, Young's final letter to Higdon indicated that she considered ho had mistreated her in various ways: that he had denounced her as a “leech’ and had told her that he hed no further confidence in her, In return she told him that he hdd “put her through paces that had made drinking {diots out of stronger women than she’; that she didn’t care for hin love or that of anybody else in the future, and that he evidently had “got red of har mush.” ‘Phe letter then ‘I am pretty firm in my decision to never again invite or | tolerate your contempt.” | Mrs, Young's hugband, from whom she had iived apart for some years, it is now believed wae Alexander C. Young, a lawyer of Hoboken, N. J. CHINAMAN FATALLY SHOT. Police in Collision With Orientals in Alleged Gambling House. BAN FRANCISCO, Cal,, July 20—In a battle between Chinese and police in a raid on an alleged gambling house in Chinatown last night, Wong Dick was fatally shot, policemen were knocked down, kioked and beaten, and many ortentals clubbed, More than two hun- dred Chinese were arrested, charged with gambling, About fifty xamblera escaped, Disguised as a Chinese, Policeman J. E, Holmes obtained entrance to a game. When money was placed on the table blew his whistle to summon ald. He was Immediately seanultpd, Other policemen started through a aide door of the elubroom and were met. b; horde of Chinese, A general battle fol- lowed. After James MeFachern, ano! er, had been beaten @ floor, he dre fis revolver and ahot Wong Dick, Fright. ened by the shooting, the Chinese quickly Fearing further violence, reserves summoned to Chinatown ‘and’ placed at guard duty. Re-trial of Bribery Charge. CHICAGO, July 20.—The second trial of Lee O'Neil Browne, on the charge of bribery in connection with the election of William Lorimer to the United States Senate, will begin August 1, A continu- ance to that date was granted today, The first trial of Browne resulted in the jury being discharged because of dis- agreement after being out 115 hours. ¥ | witnessed it could hardly STRENUO WS ‘TIMES IN- THE GRASSHOPPER STATE. AEROPLANE FALLS BLAZING TO GROUND Aviator Ehrmann’s Machine Struck by Lightning While in Air. BARCELONA, July 20.—While he was making a cross-country flight today Avi- ator Ehrmann’s aeroplane was struck by lightning and fell blazing to the ground. The aviator escaped uninjured, which 1s regarded as almost miraculous. There has never been a more startling aerial exhibition than that which Ehr- mann unwillingly afforded, and those who believe their eyes when the airman emerged from the singed framework none the worse for his experience. In Path of Sky Bolt. He was sailing along at a moderate height when he got in the path of a sky bolt. Instantly the aeroplane was en- veloped in fiames, its canvas wings shriveled up, and, clinging to the skeleton of his, craft, Ehrmann came down with @ thud. . Aviator Ehrmann heretofore has not figured prominently in flying events, and the novel accident occurring to him to- day brings him into prominence for the first time. BURGLAR WOUNDS GIRL. Bullet Hits Her in Shoulder as She Tries to Run. ; CHICAGO, July 20.—Miss Katie To- mara, twenty-one years old, was serious- ly wounded early today, after a struggle with a burglar whom she discovered in her bedroom. Miss Tomara attempted to seize the man, and then tried to get out of the room to give an alarm. As she ran out the man fired two shots, one bullet lodg- ing in her right shoulder. The man escaped. MAN KILLED IN SMASH-UP. Switch Engine Bumps Into Nickel Plate Train. CHICAGO, July 20.—One man was kill- ed and another seriously injured today when a switch engine crashed into a nickel plate passenger train at 43d street. A number of passengers were bruised, put none seriously hurt. The engineer of the switch engine was killed and the fire- man hurt. The accident was caused by an open switch. CONFESSES TO ROBBERY. Prisoner Admits He Aided in Hold- ing Up Mail Train. FAIRFIELD, Cal, July 20.—Admit- ting that he was ono of the two men who held up and robbed the China and Japan fest mail near Benicia the night of April 17 last, James C. Brown, who with Carl Munbar was arrested Satur- Gay night by Constable Michael Judge, made a full confession of the affair last night to Sheriff MoDonald. Ac- cording to the sheriff Brown stated he and Dunbar secured only $16 from the registered mail pouches, Two Miners Buried Under Slate, CALIFORNIA, Pa. July 20.—Two miners, beth foreigners, were killed and one seriously injured early today, when tons of slate in the Vesta mine, near here crushed thems they were leaving the lower: shafts at the end of their night's work, CANNON TD RECUPERTE WAS SOMEWHAT FATIGUED BY KANSAS STUMPING TOUR. Expects, However, to Participate in Illinois Campaign—On His Way Home. KANSAS CITY, Mo., July 20.—Speaker Joseph G. Cannon arrived in Kansas City | this morning from Marton, Kan., where last night he closed his Kansas stumping tour in behalf of the “standpat republi- can congressmen” who are seeking re- nomination. Speaker Cannon left for St. Louis at 9:30 a.m. He will go from St. Louis to his home in Danville, lll, either tonight or tomorrow morhing. He was pretty well worn out last night, but when he reached Kansas City he said he was feeling well. Despite his | seventy-four years and his temporary collapse at Winfield last Saturday, the Speaker is determined to get into the fall campaign. Proposes to Take Rest. Mr. Cannon will stay in Danville a few days, but before the end of the month will go to Mackinac, Mich. for a rest of a week or ten days. “The Illinois primaries will not take place until September 15,” said Mr. Cannon today, “and as far as I know there is no opposition to my renomina- tion. I expect to spend about two weeks.campaigning in my district, but I shall probably do it before the pri- maries, in order to get the matter out of the way before the heavy work of the fall begins. Enlists in Campaign. “When the regular congressional cam- paign opens I shall be at the service of the national republican congres- sional committee. “I feel able to go through the cam- paign. There won't be a new party. I recognize no ‘insurgent’ republican- is) I believe that the presN@t republican delegation from Kansas will be renom- inated, as !t ought to be.” MARINES SHOW DARING. Salvage Cargo of Gasoline and Save Quarters From Flames. SAN JUAN, P. R., July 20.—The Amer- ican marines at the naval station here hed a lively time today with a cargo of gasoline that blew up @ coastwise schooner and then all-but burned up the naval station. ‘The vessel, bound for Ponce with 1,000 five-gallon-cans of the oll, was moving calmly out of the harbor when an ex- plosion in the hold blew most of her load into the water, and setting the craft afire forced the crew to jump over- board. One or the sailors was injured. ‘The first excitement over, the marines attempted to salvage the gasoline and ‘by dint of hard work recovered many of the cans. ‘These were placed on the nayal station wharf, where presently a second explosion occurred, and the sta- tion quarters of the marines were wrap- ‘ped in flames. The marines manned the pumps, and through their pluck and per- sistency saved the buildings from de- struction. STORES PROVIDE TAXICABS. Chicago Merchants’ Plan for Con- venience of Patrons. CHICAGO, Il, July 20.— Two State street department stores yesterday in- augurated a taxicab service for the con- vents ce of thelr patrona. < ‘The innovation enables any custom to take a taxicab from the stores for an uninterrupted journey within «© defined district of about one mile in radius for the charge of but 80 cents for from one to five . ‘The district includes all of the termninel raiiroad stations and all of the downtown hotels. For travel to any destination within the city and outside of the district referred It is said that- will have, as a result of this it, the ee oe ee BAR TO SETTLEMENT OF WAGGAMAN CLAIMS Daniel B. Clarke’s Heirs Pro- test Against the.Recently ‘Proposed Compromise. The compromise between H. Rozier Du- jlany and the Catholic University of America ,regarding the latter’s claim against the bankrupt estate of ‘Thomas E, Waggaman, its former treasurer, 1s not to have clear sailing. The heirs of the late Dr. Daniel B. Clarke, father-in- law of Mr. Waggaman, three of whom are children of the former treasurer, to- day filed a protest to the proposed set- tlement. The Clarke estate has a claim of $140,000. By the compromise the university was to receive about $350,000 in cash and se- curities in settlement of its claim of about $900,000 which had come into Wagga- man’s hands as treasurer. No exception is taken to the proposed settlement with John F. Waggaman, brother of the bankrupt, who virtually surrendered a claim of $230,000 to the creditors of his brother. The exceptants are Ellen M. Morse, Juliana Rachel Waggaman’ Daniel, Daniel B. Clarke Waggaman and Mary Agnes Waggaman Willett, as hoirs-at- law and next of kin of Dr. Daniel B. Clarke. Papers Declared to Be Void. In épposing the compromise the Clarke heirs, through Attorney W. E. Ambrose, allege that the bill of sale and deed of trust referred to are each void in contemplation of law as against the trustee representing the creditors of the bankrupt; that even if the valid- ity of the instruments were not doubt- ful, there is no such apparent validity in them as justifies the extremely f: orable terms of the proposed compro- mise in respect of the university. It fs also urged that if any compromise, such as is proposed, were made the uni- versity should receive only securities similar to those to which the other credi- tors would be entitled and should not be given choice securities as contemplat- ed by the compromise. Finally, the heirs say, the proposed compromise is against the best interests of the general creditors of the bankrupt. The result of the filing of this excep- tion will be the naming of a day to hear the matter in court. This may be agreed on by counsel during the summer recess: or the hearing may be postponed until the fall term of court. GERMANY WANTS TO KNOW. Asks Turkey to Explain Shooting of *a German Subject. BERLIN, July 20.—The foreign office today instructed the German embassy at Constantinople to demand an ex- planation from the Turkish government of the shooting of a German subject by three natives near Haifa, Syria. ‘The German Cable Company reported that the man was killed in the presence of a judge and the German consul during @ cburt proceeding. DIPLOMAS ARE BELATED. Midshipmen Get Evidence of Gradu- ation Withheld in June. Special Dispatch to The Star. ANNAPOLIS, Md., July 20.—After being denied their diplomas at the regular grad- uation in June and held over because of deficiency in the final examinations, Mid- shipmen Charlton Eugene Battle of Co- lumbus, Ga., and Howard Adams Flani- gan of New York city today received their covoted sheepskins from Supt. Bowyer of the Naval Academy. At the same time the two yor of aot ten reese pany, and ordered to shipboard. Bat- Flanigan ‘will go t0-the North Carolioe 1° Res will te siven briet leave befens aboard ship. Pie obo ge a Nichol- son Henderson, a Herbert 0. Rouseh of Pendleton, Ore., who were also helé up on ae graduation, have not yet CRIPPEN NOT ABOARD Police Fail to Find Physician ‘on the Kroonland. CASE UP IN PARLIAMENT Labor Member Wants to Know Why Doctor Was Allowed to Escape. MANY RUMORS STILL AFLOAT Doubt as to Whether Man Seen at Vernet-les-Bains Was Mur- der Suspect. clue to the whereabouts of Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen, whose arrest the London police have requested, was run down to- day with the arrival here of the steamer Kroonland, and another disappointment was added to the growing list. There Was no sign on the Kroonland of the Amezican physician in whose London house a body believed to be that of his wife, known on the stage as Belle El- more, recently was unearthed, and who was thought to have fied to this country in company with his stenographer, Ethel Claire Leneve. Cable advices that there was ground for the belief that Dr. Crippen and his com- |Panion boarded the Kroonland when that steamer called at Dover on her way from Antwerp to New York the day the doctor disappeared caused a close inspection of the liner's passengers here. The search was without result, how- ever, and the Kroonland’s officers said that’ no one answering Dr. Crippen's de- scription took passage on the steamer, either at Dover or at Southampton, where the steamer called later for slight repairs to her machinery. One man, who after- ward proved to be a clergyman, and his wife were subjected to some scrutiny, but had little trouble in proving their identity. Matter in House of Commons. | LONDON, July 20.—The Belle Elmore murder mystery got into the house of commons today, but the attempted airing of the police end failed. Home Secretary Winston Churchill declined to answer questions on the subject on the ground that the government held it to be unde- sirable to discuss the details of the police inquiry at present. Ever since the body supposed to be that_of the actress wife of Dr. Hawley H. Crippen was unearthed in the cellar of their Hilldrop Crescent home the omciais. of Scotland Yard have been severely criticised for having permitted the doctor to escape them, after hav- ing been for nine days under suspicion. "fhe general dissatisfaction with the conduct of the police was expressed in the lower house today by William J. Thorne, a labor member, who put a series of questions to the home secre- tary designed to develop why the au- thorities had Jost track of a man against. whom a suspicion of crime had been directed. Mr. Churchill's declina- tion to be drawn into the matter was briefly but positively stated. Eluded the Gendarmes. Scotland Yard is still. without in- formation other than that.’contained in the newspaper dispatches concerning the report that Crippen appeared re- cently at Wernet-les-Bains, France. Ac- cording to these stories the fugitive spent a night in the French city. When his presence was learned gendarmes were sent to arrest the suspect, but when they arrived at his hotel the traveler had left for Spain. The fact that these stories make no mention of Ethel Claire Leneve, Crip- pen’s typist, who dropped out of sight when her employer disappeared. is noted by the police. They are inclined to the belfef that the woman would surrender herself if she were alive and not under duress. ‘The usual batch of fatherless runtors was afloat today. Among the number one to the effect that the arrest of Crippen at a port on the south coast of England wa imminent. Supt. Froest of Scotland Yard promptly declared the re- port untrue. z Answered His Description. PERPIGNAN, France, July 20.—Inves- tigation today at Vernet-Les Bains indi- cates that the man who arrived there Saturday and stopped over night answer- ed the police description of Dr. Hawley H. Crippen ganted in London in con- nection with the disappearance of his wife, Belle Elmore. ‘The suspect, however, was alone. The French police have been looking for a man with a woman companion. The sus- pect left Vernet-Les-Bains on a Sunday morning train after purchasing a_ticket for Cerbere, a hamlet of southern France near Cape Cerbere, which marks the eastern end of the boundary between France and Spain. It 1s thought prob- able that the traveler has crossed into Spain, but efforts to discover his where- abouts since his departure by train Sun- day have veen. futile. PINCHOT MEANS BALLINGER. “Man Whose Name I Do Not Men- tion in Public Addresses.” SAN. FRANCISCO, July 20.—Gifford Pinchot made his first speech last night in California in behalf of Hiram Johnson, the Lincoln-Roosevelt League candidate for the republican gubernatorial nomina- tion. So large was the. crowd that he was forced to address an overflow meeting afterward. ‘Mr. Pinchot. made no direct reference to Secretary Ballinger, but several times referred to the ‘man whose name I do not mention in public addresses.” LYNCH INDEMNITY DEMANDED. Administrator of Dead Anti-Saloon Detective Files Claim. NEWARK, N. J., July 20.—George Bo- hon, president of the Mercer National Bank, at Harrodsburg, K; and ad- ministrator of the estate of Carl Ether- ington, the anti-saloon detective lynched here July 8, has made formal demand upon the Licking county authorities for $5,000 damages authorized by the estate to be paid by the county to the estate of persons lynched. ‘Later Bohon stated he would bring suit in federal court for $40,000 damages against former Sheriff Linke and his bondsmen. A. H. MARTIN’S BEREAVEMENT. Mother of Virginia Politician Dies Suddenly at Beach. NORFOLK, Va., July 20.—Mrs. Bettie Martin, aged seventy-two years, mother of Alvah H. Martin, republican national NEW YORK, July 20.—Another supposed | PLAY SOLDIERS THINGS OF PAST Realization Comes When Real Life of Modern Camp Begins. PRIVATE HAS NO PICNIC IN ANNUAL TRAINING District National Guardsmen Begin Work at Gettysburg. |ON THE BATTLEFIELD TODAY Engage in Simple Maneuvers. Breakfast Eaten by Many Un- der the Open Skies, Mess Tents Not Being Up. Special From a Sta Correspondent. GETTYSBURG, Pa., July 20.—Down at the railway station early this morning @ very much ‘bedraggled private in one of the District regiments leaned against a Post and told every one within hearing that he was “on his way. This was a private who had looked upon the camp grounds last night, had seen the |tolling multitudes as the officers ordered them around in the efforts to get up the big brown tents before nightfall, and who figured out that it fs a fine thing to be an officer, but a mighty tough thing to be a Private, especially when there is a good three-dollar-and-a-half-a-day job hack home. So he went ‘to town before the tents were raised and never came back. The Soldier's First Lesson. The difference between officer and pri- vate is just about the first thing a sol. dier learns in camp. Back in Washing- ton the difference to the ordinary ob- Server seems to be one of uniform. But out here at the camp of instruction the difference hits them where they live. The oMfcer gets it all done for him, and the Private not only has to do his own work, but he has to do a great deal for his officers, On these cold mornings it is better to be an officer by far. It was very cold this morning when reveille sounded throughout fhe big camp, and it had been very cold all night. The first reveille is blown through a megaphone at camp headquarters, and regimental reveilles flow like a flock of musical sheep all through the various outfits. Maj. Eben Swift, U. 8. A., whe talked to the officers last night, told the D.C. N. G. that there is no use having reveille drag out at long intervals. “When it is blown here, at head- quarters, it ought to be taken up right away throughout camp. Why, the other morning we were kept awake a whole hour after reveille by bugles blowing at ten-minute intervals all over the plac Privates Routed Out. Reveille is supposed to be the time when the whole camp gets up. True, it’s 5:30 a.m. when it blows, but the civillans back home think that when the bugler splits the dawn with his brassy cgll the whole camp tumbles out. Don’t believe a word of it. The poor dear privates do the getting up. They have ten minutes to dress in and then, with their clammy legs and arms still stiff with the cold of the long night, they go through a bone-racking process called ‘setting up.” It looks like “breaking up.” Then they clean up the camp and call one another names for getting in another's way. Perey ire During this time the officers are rub- bing eau de listerine de vigor in their hair and getting slicked up. But, of course, they have all had their shot at doing the privates’ work in days Past, and are now exempt. Guardsmen on the Battlefield. The District guardsmen hiked out to various parts of the battlefield soon after breakfast this morning to go through tactical maneuvers of a simple nature. They had to march several miles to get where they were to work, and of course they had to march the same distance back again. The battery had tactical exercises in the morning and a talk from regular officers in the afternoon The battery mess tents were not up at breakfast time this morning, and the men gave a true imitation of the soldier's life as they squatted around with their breakfast in their hands. They were not alone in this lack of mess tents, either, as ne: all the or- ganizations ate their breakfasts under Gettysburg’s blue sky. Gen. Harries arrived in camp last night, having come from Washington in a motor car. The Civilian Transformed. Isn't {t odd what a difference a few hours make! Only a few hours ago Washington saw a couple of thousand mild-mannered young men attending to their regular routine duties as business persons around the marts of trade and the various government departments, and today the cares of military duty have saddled themselves heavily on these same- fellows and made them absolutely dif- ferent. Garbed in military khaki, Wash- ington’s National Guardsmen yesterday hustled off in the four sections of the long troop train that tolled wearily up the hills to Gettysburg and immeliately became engaged in camp life as if their lives depended on it. ‘AS soon as they arrived here there were shoutings and bustlings, orders and a lit- tle confusion. Men who have been push- ing the pen for a year began to wear blisters on their hands from handling the heavy camp equipment. There were tents and tents and tents to be run off the train. There were cannons and caissons, ambulance wagons and poles, ropes, camp kits, great crates of groceries, and all sorts of provender to be hauled up to the various camping grounds of t District of Columbia outfit. Men whom Washingtonians see going quietly into office buildings on work day were suddenly. transformed into dashing- looking horsemen in_ brand-new riding breeches and spurs. They were military looking, but not quite so military looking ‘as they will be after a few hikes into the Pennsylvania dust. for some of their uniforms are just out of the bandbox. mitteeman from Virginia, died sud- Seniy last night at the summer home of her sonat Willoughby Beach. ‘Mr. Martin wes in Abingdon, Ve., at- tending the ninth district republican ‘con- gressional convention. Some of the officers have their uniforms so Fecently from the tailors that the men present @ sort of show-window look, which, however, will lose itself very quickly in the hard grind of camp and +