Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, September 4, 1913, Page 1

VOL. LV—NO. 212 PRICE WO CENTS The Bulletin’s Circulation In Norwich is Double That of Any Other Paper, and Its Total Girculation is the Largest in Connecticut in Proportion tp the City’s Populatior, WRECK INQUIRY T0 BEGIN FRIDAY To be Most Searching Investigation-Ever Conducted by Interstate Commerce Commission TO ASCERTAIN CAUSE OF SO MANY DISASTERS Chief Inspector Says Inquiry Will Get Down to Fundamentals —Corener’s Inquest to Begin Today—Engineer Miller and Flagman Murray Held in Jail—Condition of Five of the Injured is Regarded as Hopeless . New Haven. Conn.. Sept. 3.--With public authorities required it to have {wents-one dead and five dying as the | their approval. vesult of the wreck mear New Haven | “After conferences with those gen- morning of the Bar Har- |tlemen by telephone and verbally, in bor express, the New York, New Ha- | which yme of the representatives of on and Hartford railroad faces to- |the press participated, it appears that night a public inquiry into the causes |the public authorities feel that it is he disaster by the Interstate Com- |unwise at this time to make public v o Commisston. It will begin on |the testimony. While l!lu mpany has ¥riday and will be the most search- |no objections to making public any ng ever conducted by the commissfon [and all facts it feels that in a matter catastrophe. » any other railroad To Get Down to Fundamentals.” This was announced tonight by H. W. Belnap, chief inspector of the com- mission, who arrived here today. Com- missioner McChord will preside and is expecte® here tomorrow night. Mr. Belnap, who will conduct the exam- ) witnesses, said that the in- would “get down to fundamen- and determine what causes in the operation and management of 24 were responsible for the fatal wrecks afflicting the New | :st two or three years, cul sterday’s, the most dis- tals zenera Fourteen Wrecks Since June 8, 1911 following wrecks have occurred stem since June 8§, 1911, mak- ecord of 70 persons killed and eds injured: e £, 19)1—Fairfield, Conn., freight, a; signals were disregarded. 12, 1811—Bridgeport, Coga,, 1 express. 12 killed, 100 injured; the carelessness of the engineer king a crossover at a high rate eed. 25, 1911—Middletown, train, 60 injured; Conn., rails )ct. 13, 1911—Berlin Junction, Conn., senger train, 2 dead, 5 injured; due v freight cars crashing into of train. 1912—Clinton, Mass., passen- ain, § injured: ran into an open hizh speed. 1912—Stonington Junction, . passenger train, 3 killed, 4 in- collision due to dafeceive sig- | Mass., 5 passenger train Aug. & 1912—Dorchester, ed, 16 injured: mped track. 3, 1912—South Boston, Mass., passenzer train, 7 killed, 40 Injured; iled. ot 3. 1912—Westport, Conn, ringfield express, 9 lkilled, 50 in- due to taking a crossover at a zh rate of speed. ov. 16, 1912Green's Farms, Conn., Merchants'~ Limited, 35 injured; due to defective equipment. Nos. 17, 1912—Putnam. Conn., frelght 2 injured; rear end 913—Waterbury, Conn., pas. senger train, 21 injured: rear emnd col- ision in foxz. June 12, 1913—Stamford, Conn., Bos- ton express by way of Springfield, 6 killed and 30 Injured: collision caused by ignoring signals and allegsd failure air brakes to work. Sept. 2, 1913—North Haven, Conn., first section of White Mountain ex- press and second section of Bar Har- bor express, 21 killed and 50 Injured: rear-end coliision in fog. Engineer’s Testimony Not Given Out. Until the Interstate Commerce Com- mission’s witnesses tell their story, the official explanation siven out by the officials of the company last night will Dbe the only version of the causes of Tuesday's wreek available 1o the pub- lic. Coromer Mix persisted today in his refusal to make public the testh mony of Engineer Mtller of the White Mountain express which crashed into the Bar Harbor train, or of Flagman Murray of the latter train, both of whom he exmmined yesterdiy at the prefiminary Imvestigation at the of- fices of the road. This adtitude was also tzken by C, C, Elwell, chief en- gineer of the Connecticut Publie Util- itles Commission, who was present at the hearing. To Attend Corener’s Inquest. The coroner will begin tomorrow his formal fnquest to fix, e safd, “the ~riminal responsibility,” but thie also wili be a private affair, except for the presence of Messrs. Belnap and Fl- | well Acting under tione_ from Mr. Betnap instruc- McChord, telegraphic Commissioner today demanded that he be allowsd to be present at the in- est. To this the coroner acceded 4 promised him a copy of the testi- mony already taken. This, it was learned, the coroner was nnable to fur- mish at the time, oxplaining to Mr. Belnap that it was still in the hands a :fl»" New Haven road. At a later | r the New Haven officials sent transcripte of the testimony to the coroner, one of which was later deliv- ered to Mr. Belnap. New Haven Wishes to Hide Nothing. President Wlliott tonight declared that as far as he was concerned he was perfactly willing for the testimony ts become public, but had refrained from giving it out In deference to the county officiala. 1 wish to state again as clearly as I can” he said, “that the management of the New Haven road has nothing | it wishes to hide or distort in connec- tion with the serious accident on Tues- day morning. There seems to be a misunderstanding on the part of some of the representatives of the news- papers about the hearing held Tuesday in the offica of Mr. Bardo, the gen- ral manager. That hearing was a joint one participated in by the company, the coromer and the representative of tha public utilities commission of Con- necticut: and the representatives of the government examined the witness- under oath, something which the rallroad bas no power to do. When the question was raised of having the representatives of the press present at the hearing, proper respect for the cor~ oner wnd representative of the state of Connecticut made It necessary to ask the permission of those gentlemen, The officers of the raflroad understood thot those gentiemen thought that such attendance at thal time was un- wise. Publicity Unwise at Present. “TWhen the auestion came up foday of furnishing t4 the representatives of jword was rveceived of of such great public concern as this unfortunate accident, that it should not act in any way counter to the judgment of the coromer and of the representatives of the public utilitles commission, who are charged with cer- tain responsibilities and duties in con- nection with the investigation, Engineer and Flagman in Jail. “Any and all facts in possession of the company will be given promptly to the public authorities and at the hear- ing of the Intdrstate Commerce Com- mission which is to begin on Friday all such facts will become public property.” Engineer Miller and Flagman Mur- ay were still in jail tonight and the coroner has refused to accept bonds for their appearance at tomorrow's hearing. They wili be among the first examined. The coroner has subpoe- naed, it was learned, a dozen or more survivors of the wreck as well as other trainmen involved, and officers of the road. His findings will be turn- ed over to the county prosecutor Arnon A. Alling, who if he deems the evidence sufficient, may lay it before a grand jury of the county. The find- inge may not become public in that event until the jury has determined whether an indictment should be found. Fast Time by White Mountain Express Inspector Belnap lost no time today on preparing for the investigation. He visited President Elliott and secured from him the time sheets of all the trains in operation on this division of the New Haven yesterday morning, the record of the crews of the two ex- presses and other data needed. While two of his assistant inspectors were sent to the scene of the wreck to in- vestigate the signal system, Mr. Bel- nap spent a good part of the day with two other assistants studying the data. He refused fo state what the time sheets disclosed, but it was learne] that of six trains that left Springfield within an hour of each other vester- day morning, all of them lafe, the White Mountain express was making faster fime than any of them, some- what in excess of forty miles an hour. Road Did Not Violate Order. “There will be a complete disclos- ure of the running time of these traine at the investigation,” said the inspect- or. “Every witness will be treated alike, whether he is the president of the road or the humblest employe. We are golng at the bottom thorouslly, All the daf®» furnished by the rai'road will be checked up by sworn testi- mony before it is accepted.” Mr. Belnap emphatically denied to- day ‘that the road had violated the or- der of the commission forbiddinz it to burn the wreckage until it had been investigated. He sald that the wre k- age was released to the railroad late yesterday afternoon after F, A, How- ard, an assistant inspector, who was narly on the scene, had made an in- vestigation. This release was alse glven by the coroner and the public utflities commission. Were Torpedees Placed on Track? 1. H. Powler, conductor, and Big- agemaster Moore of the White Moun in express, were examined by tte ralirosd officlals today, Already versions of the causes of the wreck conflicting with the com- pany’s explanation are being exploit- ed by some of the survivors residing in this One of these stories raised the question as®to whether lagman Murray had pilaced any torp€does at all on the track; another whefher he had taken proper precautions te sce for himself whether another train was that on a down grade as in the pres- ent case, the flagman should place one torpedo elghteen felegraph poles back, a distance of a liftle less than 2,400 feet, and two forped eighteen poles back of the first, Railroad Rule Regarding Torpedoes. “After having done this,” reads the rule, “he may return to a point be- tween the torpedoes placed and wait for any approaching traln prepared to display proper signals in full view, us- ing every effort to attract attention in season to stop it. When recalled, he will look and listen for any approach- ing train and if none is located, take up the signal torpedo nearest the train (leaving the other fwo) and return. 1f recalled before placing torpedoes the required distance a fusee should be lighted and left on the track Showld the grade be heavy, weather bad, or view likely to be cut off by smoke from passing irains, he must go as much bevond the distance named as circumstances may make necessary to_sately protect his train’ While bodies of the dead were be- ing shipped to their homes by rela- tives today, surgeons fqught to save the lives of the most meriously of the seventsen Injured, now in hospitals here, but tonight respaired of their recovery. These five were: Jeane and Fidna Annette of Bavonne, N. J.: Rose Zimmerman of New York: Wilifam O, Rowland of Philadelphia und L. K, Col- omy of Bucksport, Mal S BURNING OF WRECKAGE. Not Dens Until It Had Been Inspected by Gevernment Officials. New York, Sept, 3—The following telegram from President Elliott of the New Haven railroad wus received by The Assoefated Press today in reply to an inquiry about the burning of wreck- age at Wallingford; ‘I have veur message, Tuesday morning Messrs. Hustis and Whaley were at the Taft Helel and as soom as the wreck left ‘he press coples of the sworn lesti- mony at that meeting the company feit sgaln that proper respect for the there about 7.30 and went at once fo the scene with instructions te preveat approaching. The flagman, according to the rafl- road version, placed his torpedoes about four hundred feet to the rear, of his train. The railroad officiald | said tonighi that the rules required | Cabied Paragraphs Gen. Diaz Goes to Be London, Sept. 3.—Gen. Felix Diaz started today for Berlin, where he says he Intends to remain some time. eteen Months for Blackmail. London, Sept., 3.—Heinrich Kremer- skoten, a German clerk, was sentenced today at the Old Balley sessions to fifteen months hard labor on a charge of attempting to blackmail Lord Roths- child. He had threatened to murder Lord Rothschild unless given $150,000. Yuan Shi Kai td Resign. St. Petersburg, Sept. 3.—Provisional President Yuan Shi Kal, of the Chinese republic, today issued a decree an- nouncing his intention of resigning of- fice immediately if peace shall have been restored in that country, accord- lf?g l:fl a telegram from Mukden to the ech, Irresponsible Vandal Caught. Parls, Sept. 3.—Plerre Vigoroux, the man who eut with a razor in 1919, a picture by Michael Angelo in fthe Louvre, was caught last night in the act of trying to break into the Tro- cadero Museum. The police declare that Vigoroux is net responsible for his actions and that he ls afifeted with a manla for despoiling museums. Two Thousand Held in Prison. Berlin, Sept. 3—Two thousand male inhabitants of the district surrounding Ku Tafs, Russian Transcaucasia, have been kept in prison since August 25, where they have been scantily fed, in order to force them to deliver to the authorities the murderer of a police- man, according to a St. Petersburg despatch to the Lokal Anzeiger today. American’s Sentence Suspended. Seul, Korea, Sept. 3—Suspension of the sentence of 18 months penal ser- vitude pronounced on August 11 on Mr. Mason, American manager of the Gold Mines at Un-San, in northern Korea, on a charge of manslanghter, was or- dered today. Mr. Mason pleaded the “unwritten law” in defending himself against the charge of killing a Chinese mine employe who, had committed a criminal assault on his 12-year-oid daughter. CIGARETTE CAUSE OF - FIRE AT NEW LONDON. Loss of $25,000 to $30,000 in Busine: Section of City. New London, Conn., Sept. 3.—Fire ‘which is supposed to have started from a cigarette butt dropped by a stockboy in the employ of the Woolworth five and ten cent store caused a loss of between $25,000 and _$30,000 today, when the four-story Cronin block on State street, in the city’s heart, was threatened with destruction. On each side and in the rear of the Cronin building are structures ilt of highly inflammable material, an® it is consid- ered remarkable that these were not destroyed. - In all its history the New London fire department never hkd a more diffi- cult fire to cope with. It was at first confined to the cellar of the five and ten cent store and the firemen were unable to reach the seat of the blaze. The smoke was intense and tonight 25 members of the department ard under the care of physicians, having been oyercome duri-— the course of the six hour fight from 11.45 a m., when the fire started, to 5.45 p. m., when the recall was sent in. At 3.30 p. m. it looked as” though it would be neces- sary to call on the Norwich depart- ment for aid, but the local firemen succeeded in getting control of the stubborn blaze and the impending dis- aster was averted. The store of the Woolworth com- pany, with all of its fixtures, stock and equipment, is a total loss. The firemen saved the other portions of the build- ing, although the losses by fire, smoke and water will be heavy. TOURING CAR PLUNGES INTO FARMINGTON RIVER. Five Occupants Get Drenched, But Es- cape Injury. Collinsville, Conn., Sept. 3.—A large touring car, carrying Connecticut num- ber 20,473, containing five occupants, who refused to give their nameg, buc who are said to have come from Nor- folk, plunged down an_embankment and into the Farmington River tonight. The driver, It is said, made a mistake in the road in the darkness, and the big machine lunged over the railroad station platform and down an embank- ment ten foet steap. The water in the Farmington at this point s scarcely more than six feet deep. The auto, fortunately, did not turn over, but all the occupants were thoroughly drench- ed, The car was later hauled out and taken to a local garage. |SENTENCES OF ALLEGED GAMBLERS8 ARE MODIFIED. Judge Walsh Reduces Penalties Im- posed by a Town Court. Greenwich, Conn, Sept. | Walsh of the court of common pleas | tonight made changes in the sentences recently given all four men who fig- ured in a gambling raid by Judge Tier- |ney of the town court. George Boles, who was fined $105 and sentenced to sixty days in jail, had the fine reduced to $100 and jfail sen- tence remitted; Ambrose Boles, who was fined $450 and sentenced to sixty day, had jail sentence remitted and fine lowered to $300; William H. Thompson, who was fi $250 and | sentenced to ten days, will now only have to pay $100 and he will not have to serve his term in jail; J. Burns, a bar tender, who was originally fined $50 was discharged. Steamers Reported by Wireless, Brow Head, Sept. 3—Signalled: Steamer Pomeranian, Montreal for Havre and London. the remova! or destruction of anything at the scene of the wreck. These ord- ers were obeyed literally and nothing was removed or burred until there had been recelved from the coroqer a report of the pub.ic utilities cusamission of Correciicut and a rceport of the Inter- state Commerce Commiss'on, all of whom visited the scenc of the accident and chtained wuch facts ns they de- sired, nuthority to clear away the wrack, It is the desira of it e company to give the fullest informition to tho public sutiorities and at =n Interview this morning belw=en representatives of the state of Connecticil and of tha commerce commission alraugemernts were made to give them mll the infor- mation they ask for, (Bigned) HOWARD RLLIOTT” “Mary Jane” Identified. New Haven, Cenn., Sept. 3.—Harvey R, Moeoney, a Maine hotel keeper, eali- ed at a local undertaking establishment tonight and pesitively indeatified tha body ef the woman heretofore known as “Mary Jare” as Catherine Sweeney, aged 45, of New York, a seamstress eiapleved at his hotel 3 —Judgey Thaw Removed tn_(}galicuok \ NOW IN CUSTODY OF IMMIGRA- TION OFFlcER.S RELEASED FROM JAIL Taken by Immigration Officials After Three Minutes of Liberty—His Fate May be Decided Today. Coaticook, Que, Sept. 3.—Farry Kendall Thaw, pried out of the Sher- brooke jail on a writ of habeas corpus abtained by a coup of Willlam Travers Jerome, enjoyed three minutes of lib- erty this afternoon and was then seised by the dominion immigration authorities and hustied by automo- bile to this little town, where tonight he paced the floor in the immigration detention roem over the Grand Trunk rallway station. Tomorrow morning a spectal board of inquiry will sit in his case and by night he may be thrust across the Vermont border as an un- desirable allen. His lawyers have planned no procedure to resist extradi- tlon to New York, and the belief was current tonight that before many hours Thaw would be back In the Matteawan asylum for the criminal insane, from which he escaped on Sunday, Aug. 17. Habeas Corpus Writ Sustained. The beginning of the end of Thaw's refuge in Canada came with dramatic swiftness. A writ of habeas corpus sued out last Saturday at the direc- tion of Jerome with John Boudreau, chief of police of this village, as peti- tioner, was sustained at 2.45 o'clock this afternoon by Matthew Hutchin- son, superior fudge of the district of St Francis, sitting in chambers at Sherbrooke. Stolid, pallid, numb, Thaw sat not five feet from the judge as he read. When. in the very last para- graph, the court declared him a free man, whether He desired liberty or not. Thaw seemed to crumple up on the lounge where he sat. A cigar stump fell from his left hand and scattered ashes to the floor; from hig right hand fluttered two gay bits of ribbon a Child had given him. B Immigration Officers Act. sut he did not rise. W. K. McKeown of his counsel leaned over and patting him on the shoulder, whispered. Thaw raised his big staring eves and stood up. Immigration officers in the room, headed by E. Blake Robertson, assist- ant superintendent. moved near him and then Thaw began slowly to move to the door. At the threshold Robert- son said simply: “Come with us, Mr. Thaw.” And without a word except a hoarse good- bye te the reporters, Thaw obeyed . Five minutes later a gray roadster streaked away from the courthouse. In the back seat was Thaw. He had not even been given time to pack his scan- Ly belongings and voluminous corre- spondence in his cell. In an hour he was here in Coaticook, guarded in the detention room by two stalwart domin- ion police. None but counsel was al- lowed to see him. Lawyer Shurtleff's Statement. The 23 milé trip over was without special incident. Thaw expressed no surprise, evidenced no grief. Behind him trailed his defeated lawyers. W. L. Shurtleff, the first to arrive, issued this statement: “If they have doctors all ready to pronounce Thaw insane, I am in- formed they have, there is almost no hope- of preventing his immediate de- portation. I belleve if we could find a way to get the case into the courts we would have a good chance to prove this immigration act unconstitutional, on the ground that it is inconsistent with the Ashburton treaty. But if the authorities at Ottawa are as deter- mined to send Thaw back as they seem to be, then I doubt very much if they would pay any attention to any writ of prohibition we might obtain. Thaw Objects to Secret Trial. “The immigration act expressly pro- vides that no court may interfere with the findings of the board of inquiry, and I am afraid that' the immigration officials will act before we have found a way to circumvent them.” Thaw, when he was told that the in- out this question and sent it down to the reporters: “Is it true that English law allows a secret trial, with the public excluded, when a man's life or liberty stake, like in Turkey or Bulgari: Thaw's chief counsel, J. N. Green- shields, a Montreal millionaire, was not present when the writ was sustained today. Tonight it was said he was stand, due to arrive was N. K. Laflamme, also of Montreal. Charles D. White of the “It looks as If they were going to railroad him,” he said. “Those higher up have apparently made up their minds.” : Jerome Says Nothing. Jerome had not a word to say As If divining in advance that Thaw was to be forced out of the Sherbrooke jall, he preceded him by automobile and was sitting in the machine gazing down the roadway when the car bear- ing Thaw hove into sight. Franklin Kennedy, deputy attorney general of New York, was scated by Jerome. Few of the sympathetic townspeople of Sherbraoke knew that Harry Thaw whom they cheered last Wednesday as a martyr, was to leave them toda; Nobody expected decision on the ha- heas corpus writ so soon. But rumor would not .down that Judge Hutchin- son would announce his findings at 2 o'clock, and at that hour a silent little group gathered in the corridor outside his chambers. Bye and bye the judge came and then, ten minutes later, Thaw was brought in. He wore his gray suit and a straw hat. Judge Appeared Nervous. The privileged elbowed thelr way into the chamber, Thaw sank down on the lounge and after a nerve- racking wait the judge began reading. His volce shook as he read, his hands trembled visibly, and repeatedly he crossed and recrossed his feet under the table. Long before he finlshed it was ap- parent from the precedents he cited that he would sustain the wrif, but there was nothing to clinch this till the last. Thaw's eyes did not once leave the judge's faces He had apparently forgotten about his dead cigdr and the ribbons the child gave him, and he did Mot drop them till the last, When the eourt reachsd that pari of nis deelsion where he said, when there is doubt, “court always inclines in faver of liberty” eme of Thaw's lawyers emitted a stified laugh, The austere, passed the interruption unno- ticed and centinued reading in a trem- bling veice, Theerv of Habeas Corpus Upset. Thaw's lawyers contend that Judge “Hutehingen has cempletely upset the quiry was to be held in secret, wrote | hurrying here to make a last desperate | Another eminent Thaw lawyer | coterie already here was discouraged. | Trust Product i’g Protected DEMOCRATS REFUSE TO MAKE ALUMINUM FREE AMENDMENT BEATEN Only Twelve Votes in Senate to Place | It on Free List—Not the"Time for Trust Legislation, Says Simmons. ‘Washington, Sept. 3.—One of the rocks which threatened the peaceful passage of the Underwood-Simmons tariff bill dissolved into thin air late todaywhen the senate majority swung solldly into line behind its leaders to defeat an amendment designed to regu- late trusts. By a vote of 55 to 12 the senate rejected a proposal by Senator .‘};'vlnyon to put aluminum upon the free st. The Aluminum Trust. Senator Kenyon and those who ioin- ed him in supporting the amendment declared that the manufacture of aluminum in the United States was in the control of a monopoly—the Aluminum Company of America. The vote was accepted as a prelude to ac- tion upon another amendment propo ing to free-list the manufactures of all combinations declared by the courts to be monopolies. Not Time for Trust Legisiation. Chairman Simmons of the finance committee announced during the de- bate that it was not the purpose of the majority party to legislate on the trust question at the present time. He agreed that the Baltimore platform de- clared against trust-made products, but said this was not the time for trust legislation. He said that congress had spent the summer on the tariff and spent the fall on currency, and prom- ised that when those matters were disposed of trust legislation would be taken up. He prophesied that winte; would find legislators still in sessi What Wilson Said. Benator Sim to the White with President W that “ingurgent” told that Prea | think it was the t ns spoke after use and a confe on, and it was crate had Wilson did been not ne for good demo- crats to go to the aid of the progressive ent republicans, ! A VB | GRAVE ROBBED BY AN ALBANY YOUTH | dent Condensed Teiegrams Thomas A. Edison, the inventor, is Il Boston. at Sag Harbor, L. I, has fixed its cur- few law at 8.45 p. m. X-ray shoes are being worn in Lon- don with the x-ray skirt. A lock of hair taken from Washing- ton’s head was found in a trunk in Pottstown, Pa. John Martin, former United St senator from Kansas, died yesterday at Topeka, Kas., after an illness of nine weeks Seven persons were killed and five seriously injured by the collapse of the two old tenement houses in Dublin, Ireland Ex-President Taft was elected presi- of the American Bar Association yesterday at the close of the meeting. nnual The Killarney House, owned by, Lord Kenmare, in County Ker Ireland, wa destroyed by fire at s of $1,000,000, a la Representative Underwood, majority leader of the House, was at the White tariff with House yesterday talk President Wilson. to A ther low record was rday by the stock of New Haven and Hartford r he price declined to 89 1- York, road Frank D. Johnson, assistant superin- tendent of railway mail ervice at Omaha, Neb., wa erday appointed superintendent on, Mass. t B The submarine torpedo boat known as K-1 was successfully launched terday from the vard of the Fore River | Shipbuilding Company at Quincy, Mass. The army and navy may have thei own Protestant Episcopal bishop. The proposition will come before the gen- eral convention of the church in Octo- | ber A leading crop expert announced yesterday that the potato crop this year in the United States would be 100,000,000 bushels short of last year. at Chicago, | The House Commerce Committee is | considering a plan for the erection of la bridge over the Potomac River be- tween Washington and Virgina at a cost of $4,000,01 A severe northeast storm swept the North Carolina and Mary- Virginia land coz i at Cape Henry re 48 miles an hour. ts erday, with the wind ching a maximum of Coal dealers of Providence, Tu Albany, N. Y. Sept s with a desire to “prevent waste” due, physicians say, to a diseased mind, John Stephe; aged 18, s6n of an Al- bany merchant, last night robbed the grave of Mrs. Pauline Blum, who was | buried Sunday afternoon. ' Young Ste- phens tonight confessed to the crime. A workman about the cemetery dis- covered the desecrated grave to The body lay In one end covered with earth. One finger, tdgether with a ring and earrings, were missing, as was the inner coffin. A mald In the Stephens home tonight found the coffin in the cellar. She notified the family physician, who se- cured young Stephens’ story Stephens was out riding on a bi- cyele Bunday afternoon and passed the cemetery during the burial mervice. He thought, he sald, that it was a waste to allow the woman's jewels and the coffin to remain in the grave, so he conceived the idea of returning to the grave. Tuesday night he went alone to the grave, dug to the outer receptacle, re- moved the body and carried the cof- {fin and jewels home. NAVAL LAUNCH SWAMPED, FIVE OCCUPANTS SAVED Managed to Keep Afioat Until Assist- ance Reached Them. Newport News, petty officers and the battleship Nebras eamen from rrowly e a8 T caped drowning in Hampton Roa today when a waterspout swampec a launch in which they were heading for short at Old Point. The boat went down near the battieship and the men managed to fleet afloat until assistance came, Spectators along the shore saw the accident and belfeved that all on board the_little craft had gone down. from the fleét were permitted to go to Old_Point. The storm boats and threatened small gene swamped shipping many i {ally. The Old Dominion line steamer | Mobjack, bound from Mobjack bay for | Norfolk, was reported lost with all on reached her tonigh board, but she Norfolk safely | AMERICANS LEAD IN CAMP PERRY SHOOT | > | Two Have Best Scores in Expert Rifle. | | pier men’s Match Camp Perry, Oh Sept. 3.—In the expert riflemen's match, the following | high scores have been bulletined: Ed- | mundson, United States, 882 Richard | United Etates, 872: Ferreyra, Argen- tine, 860; Danelri, Argentine, '24%; Al- | bornoiz, Peru, 209; Riding, United States, 786. Today’'s shooting gives Tealdi, Ar- gentine, 97 cartons, which is high score with a total of 860, while Mandez, Ar- gentine, is next high with 96 car- tons and a total of /858. Richards, United States, made 96 cartons; Pe: reyra, Argentine, 94; Toledo, Pef, 9 Daneirl, Argentine, 93; Kimberling, | United ‘States, 92; Albornoiz, Pern, 8 | McRee, United States, 83; Ozoro, Peru, $7; Dabney, United States States, 86, At the 25 yards miniature match, standing, the following kave hig scores: Busse, United States, 483; Schnerring, Unlted States, 480; Cola Sunberg, United’ State Sterm Due Hers Today. | New York, Bept. 3. The local weath er Bureau today received the following | special from Washington ‘centfal Carolina I will | Advisory storm warnings, ¥ |1 M.—over east and north |and increasing in inteusity | prebably move north slong coast and e atterfied by winds along north At lantic const tonight and Thursday, All shipping sheuld be advised accordingly. judge, whe is gray haired, past 60 and heretafora accepted intent of habeas cerpus in sustaining a pe- titien made by one really antagenistic te the prisomer and acting withont the prisener's consent, ept. 3.—Three | News of the rescue did not ch shore until tonight, when the sea in | the Roads had subsided and boats ! of the writ | advanced the prices on the « of the commodity, fixi and stove coal at $7.75 a ton, $8 and Lehigh § egg chestnut The two Hotchkiss lads who lost | their lives Tuesday in the railroad | wreck—Royval and Philo—will be "bur‘nd together at New Haven, after a double service on Nicholas Redmond, president of the Philadelphia county board of the | Ancient Onder of Hibernians and long | prominent in Irish American organiza- | tions, died yesterday of pneumonia. Women strike pickets attacked non- them, throwing stones. Two were ar- rested Stockholders of the Union Paci railroad have subscribed, according to the underwriters announcement for {about 80 per cent of the $88,357.000 | Soughern Pacific stock held by Union | Pacific “ Thomas Yates, 50 years of age, a |cook, was burned to “death and 48 firemen and one spectator were over- {come by smoke or‘injured in a fire which destroyed the Central Hotel at Chicago. | Enrico Caruse, the tenor, declares he | has found a treatment that will harden |and preserve the voice unmtil old age. {He wears a collarless shirt and par- takes sparingly of ice cream and nour- | ishing food { i | The American tourists injured when | their automobile fell over a precipice |near Little San Bernard, Italy, were | Mrs. Beverley Duer, of New York and | Mrs. Smith, whose identity could not | be ascertained. Miss Abigail Parsons of New York {and John Templeman Coolidge of Bos- ton were married noon yesterday at Riverhurst, Me., the summer residence of the bride’s,mother, Mrs. George | Parsons of New York Isaac Atkinson of New jedford, | Mass., yesterday received a letter from his son-in-law, Tho: 3. Taylor, tell- ing of the dire situation in which he |and his wife, Florence, have been | thrown into in' Mexico. | Judge J. Byor Speliman, who was a with Aviator George assenger | Schmidt when the latter's aeroplane plunged to earth at the Rutland Vt., fair Tuesday, killing the pilot is prac- ticaily assured of recovery. i The steamship Oceanio, which ar- rived at New York yesterday from Southampton lost one of her stokers during the voyage. He jumped over- board while suffering from heat. He was Arthur Robinson of Southampton, England. The strike of Cincinnati laundry workers which was inaugurated a week ago by 100 emplovees, mostly girls in three laundries, took a more serious aspect yesterddy when the men and girls belonging to the union in 19 other izundries were called out. A nose pulling contest between John Kirby Jr., former president of the Na- tlonal Association of Manufacturers and Martin M. Mulhall, one time lobby- ist, was threatened yesterday before the Flouse committee but was pre- ]\f'ull‘ll by Chairman Garrett, | | Reopening - of the Pensacela Naval | station with conatructlon of & mam-~ {moth dry dock wund rtepuir faoilitles, capable of caring for ships In the Curibbean sea and the Atlantic side of the Panama eanal, has been recom- mended to Secretary Daniels by & naval board | Beatrice Pieper Hanks, who was traveling with Mrs. Bert Hanks from B Adams, Mass, aged 12 years, her mether, and two little broth- ka, Utah, te Nerth was found lifeless be- |side the New Yerk Central tracks in Amsterdam, N vesterday, Beatrice wandered to the vesiibule platferm and fell frem the train. 4 |unton miners yvesterday in the streets | | of Redjacket, Mich., and when cavalr men arrived the women turned on Believe Huerta Wi_IIJot Run ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS MORE HOPEFUL INDIRECT ASSURANCES Regard Gamboa Note as Faverable An- swer to American Proposal—News- papers, However, Stand by Huerta. _ Washington, Sept, 3.—Administra- tion officials revealed tonight that the optimism they have felt in the last few days over the Mexican situation has been based largely upon what they have construed as an indirect assur- ance of Victoriano Huerta’s intention not to be a candidate for the presiden- ¢y of Mexico in the October electioms. Much stress was laid at the White House and other official quarters on the assertions of Frederico Gamboa, Mexican minister of foreign affairs, in his last note to John Lind pointing out the ineligibility of Huerts under the Mexican constitution to become a can- didate to succeed himself. While the administration here does not regard Huerta as the constitutionally chosen provisional president of Mexico, and therefore does not consider him nedes- sarily bound by restrictions in this tion, they admittedly see in the nbo note a favorable answer to the chief American proposal—that Hu- shall not be a candidate in the forthcoming elections, Gamboa Acting in Good Faith. By some diplomats it is felt that the ¢ titutional prohibition against Huerta's candidacy would easily be evaded by his resignation in favor of another provisional president soms time before the election. Administration officials who realize that sugh a contingency is possible believe, nevertheless, enor Gamboa was acting in good faith in his decla- ration that the candidacy of Huerts had not been raised as an issue in Mexico before the United _States brought it into the discussion, that ev- erybody there also had taken into con- sideration his Ineligibility for the presidency, and Tiad not launched any campaign for him. Newspapers Declare for Huerta. Ontside of administration quarters, however, much significance is attach- ed to the pronouncement in concert of various official and semi-official news- papers in Mexico City a few days ago Lthat Huerta would now be compelled to be a candidate because he had sue- cessfully defied the United States in | the Lind nesotiations. ': High offictals of the administration | stated most emphatically that while | they felt quite satisfied now of Huer- ta’s elimination from the presidential race, his subsequent election would not | alter the attitude of the United Stat | namely, that recognition could not he extended to him. Their action would be based on the precedent of President Hayes in 1877, who refused to recog nize Porforio Diaz for a long time after he was elected on the ground tha United States had a right to observe whether the government set up was wpproved by the Mexican people and | could guarantee stabilitv and interna- tional obligations. Unofficial reports incidentally continue to reach Wash ington that the Huerta government cannot last much longer on account | of its financial difficuliies Wilson to Meet Hale Today. The arrival today from Mexico City of Dr. William Bayard Hale, personal friend of President Wilson, who has been making a study of political con- ditions in Mexico for the last three months, is calculated to add material- ly to the president’s Information on this aspe of the situation. Mr. Hale today said he went to Mexico unoffi- cially and of his own volition, but that | any data he had gathered would be.at the service of the United States gov- ernment. He has an_ engagement to talk with President Wilson at length tomorrow. Mr. Hale denied that he carried any documents from Mr. Lind, | but it is understood that from his re- cent conversations with Mr. Lind and his close intimacy with the negotia- tions which have been conducted with Senor Gamboa, he will be able to give the administration & more comprehen- sive report of affairs in Mexico than has been possible through cable mes- sages Meanwhile Mr. Lind will remain in Vera Cruz pending orders from Wash- ington. Communications Yesterday Regarding a Basis for Negotiations. Washington, Sept. 3.—Administra- tion officials declared late tonight that both Nelson O'Saughnessy, charge d'affaires of the American embassy at Mexico City, and John Lind, President, | Wilgon’s personal envoy at Vera Cruz, were In frequent communication with officials of the Huerta government concerning a- basls for negotiations | through which it is hoped to bring | about peace in Mexico, | A message from Mr. O'Shaughnessy reached President Wilson today and while Ite contents were not disclosed it was sald to be indicative of impor tant developments in the next few days. The new basis for the parleys, most of which are beine carried on oral contemplates certain guestions as hav. ing been definitely disposed of. IN TWO RECENT WRECKS. Fireman Robertson Was In Stamford Disaster. Springfield, Mass., Sept. 3.—Edward A. Robertson of West Springfleld, has had the unusual experience of being fireman in both of the recnt wrecks on the New Haven road. He was fireman on the train that was run into at Stamford on June 12 when six persons were killed and half a score injured in the parlor car “Skylark” and he was fireman on the engine that ran into the Bar Harbor Express Tuesday at North Haven when twenty-one were killed and half a hundred injured. In both cases the engine he was on was of the new Pacific superbeater type. Mr. Robertson is no more than shak- en up and will be able to reswme his work next week unless he is wanted at the investigations. He refuses (o talk, but Mrs. Robertson emphatically denied tonight that either he or the engineer jumped from the engine at the time of the wreck. Steamship Arrivals. Fiume, Sept. 3.—Arrived: Steamer Pannonia, New York via ‘Naples, etc, Liverpeo!, Sept. 3.—Arrived: Steam- ladelphia.