Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, September 15, 1913, Page 1

- Norwich VOL. LV—NO. 221 The Bulletin’s Circulation In Norwich is Double That of Any Other Paper, NORWICH, CONN., MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1913 PRICE_TWO CENTS HUDSON RIVER MYSTERY IS SOLVED v. Hans Schmidt Confesses Murder of Anna Aumul- ler, 2 Domestic, with Whom He was Infatuated 24 n ) T BODY UP AND THREW PIECES INTO RIVER Five Bundles and Made Five Nocturnal Trips on Ferry- t to Dispose of the Victim of His Butchery—Crime ced to Him by Means of Pillow Slip in Which Torso vas Wrapped—Marriage Ceremony at the Girl’s Request y; that is all I can say. pay the penalty. There is else for me to do. But I loved Aumuller. Wanted Him to Marry Her. wanted me to marry her and a marriage license. She (. “I am guil mi I procured 2 am a priest and ordained to per- he marriage ceremony, 5o When ted upon a ceremony I mar- £ to her. There was no need iny other priest doing it. It was as absolute as if I had called in er person with authority_to per- 1 a marriage ceremony, She was midt, after being assigned to a n the Tombs, removed his coat sing it as a pillow, lay down and t to sleep. Ordained in Germany in 1904, priest, according to his story of his life, was born in Aschaffenburs, ermany, in 1881, -He attended the public schools in that city until twelve years of age and then went to college in Mainz, Germany. At the age of 18, Schmidt enrolled in St. Augustine's semf in Mainz, and on Dec. 23 1904, ordained by Bishop Kesteln, connected witp that institution. He was assigned to St. Blizabeth’s church The ary, t village church at Burgel, Fie spent a_year at Burgel and came to Amerlca because of poor \th, After remaining in New York a short time he was assigned to reh at Loufsville, Ky, In 1809 | he went to Trentom, N, J,, and in De- ember, 1910, he became assistant to her Braun, rector of St, Boniface's hurch, where he met the Aumuller girl. Girl Was Faithful Worker. In November, 1912, Schmidt left St. Bondiface o become assistant rector | of Bt Joseph's church, the assignment he held at the time of his arrest today. Little is known of the history of Anma Aummller before she took em- ployment in the St Boniface parish | house the woek before Christmas, 1910. | According to a statement issued to- | night by Father Braun, she left the den. nue apart- > the police ress on which ed ihe deatn |parish house the ~summer of P %s to a|191l, returning on Thanksgiving .o d issued tonight by Father Braun, she & left the parish house in the summer eremony Performed. of 1911, returning on Thanksgiving 1 apartment, | day, 1912, and left the second time 58 age license | August 30 last. At this time she sald iry and | she was about to be married and go a st and |to Ohio to Hve. Father Braun said jing to|that he and his sister, who is his - } housekeeper, had become attached to rough rl In | the girl because she was very pleas- ant andia faithful worker. Victim Was 21 Years of Age. “All 1 know about her” He said, is that she came to this country from Germany about two and a half years ago. I understand she was an orphan and I have a dim recollection that she may possibly have come to us through an advertisement that I placed in the newspaper for a girl. no_credentials I employed her.” Despite her statement to another maid employed in the rectory that she | was ving to be married, Father Braun said tonight that he was forced to discharge her two weeks ago ‘b | cause her mode of living was unsatis factory.” The girl, 85 nearly as could be learn- 1, was 21 years of age. Clever Detective Work. The many clues presented by ama- teur detectives and by the parents and riends of missing girls as to the ble identity of the murdered yoi oman, after the recovery of parts of body the week before last, did not the men under Inspector Faurot and a clever piece of detective led to the clearing up of Faurot had assigned De- James J. O'Nelll, Frank Cas- and Richard McKenna to locate scene of the murder. They house to house search in the vic the little second hand furniture of George Sachs, 2768 Eighth where was purchased the pil- p in which parts of the body wrapped. In this same locali of store low . - ; torso was purchased, It was learncd Trailed the Pillow Slip. Sachs' record, after a careful going over, revealed that the pillow slip had been sent to a purchaser at the Brad- hurst avenue address. On Saturday the detectives learned that the third floor rear apartment had been rented recently, but that the occupants had not been seen for several days.. An inspection of the flat—the one in which idt's alleged confession says the der was_committed—convinced the that they had found the where the river victim’s body issected. On the floor were blood Father Braun Interviewed. e flat were two trunks and a stchel, the property of Miss Aumuller. i e satchel the detectives found that conmnected the murdered the rectory of the St. Boni- ch. mation, and a description from the su- perintendent @f the apartment of the man who had rented the flat, detectives interviewed Father in, rector of St. Boniface. | From Father Braun the detectlves learncd that Miss Aumuller left his employ two weeks ago and that Fa- ther Schmidt, while an assistant rector !there, had_shown unusual interest in 0 I |the girl, although his actions had not 1w it Then I|aroused the suspicions of Lis superior. T - ,‘ Schmidt Called a “Wanaerer.” Up the Mattress. “The detectives, plecing their threads dy x pleces, dence together, then delved into © cach the lfe of Father Bohmidt, and last 1v night they completed their mnet of 1 a forryboat | facts befors Inspector Faurot, who had | r © siream 1| directed the search from the beginning. . wior, | With thres deteetives and hls secre. d tho other |tary, Inspector Kaurot went over the arn and | evid to be sure that nothing re- tat | matned uncensidered, and at an early iisposed of the body T |hour this morning they arrived at the N all evidence of ihe [rectory of Hi, Joseph's church, The < ' o matirass on which {urrest of Schmidi followed a few mo- and ecarrled it + {mentx Tajer, Whils not denying that va t4th street and Sevents | iho Rev, Hund Sehs had heen ore and toere I burned ¥ tled {o offi- dained and had boen P While she had | paper found with parts of the | Armed with this infor- | house | Cabied Paragraphs Asiatic Cholera Spreading. St. Petersburg, Sept. l4—Asiatic cholera is spreading in Russa. Aviator-Inventor Killed. Bucharest, Roumania, Sept. 14—An aviator numed Vlalcn, who recently de- signed an aeroplane which he chris- tened the Mad Fly, fell during a test today and was killéd, Another Suffragette Fire. London, Sept. 14—The station build- mngs at Kenton, near Newcastle, with all their contents, were destroyed yes- terday by fire. Placards were left on the scene bearing the words: “Premier Asquith s responsible for militancy. Apply to him for damages.” China Accepts Japanese Demands. Peking, Sept, 14—Japan’s demands. presented to China two days ago, in connection with the killing of Japan- ese subjects and the trampling of the Japanese flag by Chinese, were ac- cepted in their entirety yesterday by the Peking government. Gaynor's Body Homeward Bound. Liverpool, Eng., Sept. 14.—Bearing homeward the body of the late mayor of New York, William J. Gaynor, who died on board the steamer Baltic at sea Wednesday afternoon, the Cunard line steamship Lusitania sailed from Liverpool shortly after 5 o'clock yes- terday afternoon. The vessel is ex- pected to enter New York harbor on Friday. LYMAN B. PENDLETON CANNOT BE LOCATED. New London Letter abouts Unknow Carrier's Where- to Officials. New London, Sept.. 14. Lyman B, Pendleto letter carrier in New London, who has been on sick leave for several months, is mi ng that that city and the postoffice au- thorities are anxious fo learn his whereabouts. The sixty days' leave granted Mr, Pendleton is about to ex. pire, and Postmaster McGinl 18 de- sirous of rengwing the leave if neces- sary and securing the carrier’s sig ture to the application. At the time the leave of absence was granted Let- ter Carrier Pendleton was feeling much better and believed he would be able to resume his route at the expiration of the period. Nothing has been seen of him so fa as is known for the past three woe when he left the place whére he had been rooming. Mr, Pendleton’s fllne: was in the nature of mervous prostre tion, & Meriden Socialists Name Ticket. Meriden, Conn., Sept. 14—The So- cialist party for the second time in its thorltative statement issued today af- ter his arrest from the head of the New York diocese characterized Schmldt as a “wanderer” and not a priest of the dlocese, although he was assigned to assist the rectors of its churches. en route to the Tombs, Schmidt was questioned by the defectives. The asked him what he had done with the mattress and he lold them, they satd. Inspector Faurot stopped the machine at the vacant lot and the charred rem- nants of the mattress were scoured. Then Schmldt was asked where he bought the knife and saw with which the body of Miss Aumuller was cut up. Schmidt indicated the shop as they passed it. The car was |stopped and Schmidt pointed to a knifo with a ten inch blade as prac- | tically identical with the ono he used. | This ‘shop is not far from the Tombs. | Further up the street Schmidt, lice say, pointed to two butcher in a shop window. “T bought one of that kind,” he said laconically. Eduoated in Catholic Seminary. Information resardding the early life of Anna by her cousin, Joseph Igler.. She was 120 years old, 'was born in Oedenburg, Hungery, and lived there until came to this country in 1911. Her father dled when she was a child, and she had been supported by an aunt, who sent her to a Catholic seminary. windows of a After his arrest, and while he was ;Tw, she | he po- | by the crow. muller was given tonlght |at o late hour. | | SWELL CAUSED THE Americans in Rebels’ Hands PARTY OF 100 INCLUDES WOMEN AND CHILDREN BOUND FROM TORREON Refugees Taken while Proceeding Over- land—Authorities to Make No Effort at Rescue Lest It Cause Atrelciliou. Mexico City, Sept. 14. Americans, including 3 men and children refugees from Tor- reon, are reported to Have fallen into the hands of the rebels while pro- ceeding overland to Saltillo. The au- thorities at Saltillo decline to take the responsibility of sending a force to thelr rescue, fearing, they say, that the rebels might commit atrocities upon the refugees, which would possibly otherwise be avoided, American Embassy Aots. The report comes from an unoffict One hundred number of wo source at Saltillo, but has not be confirmed. The American embassy has called upon the Mexican fopefsn office to Investigate the matter and do whatever Is possible to relieve the Americans should the report prove true. Huerta’s Message Today. With Envoy Lind still awaiting in- structions at Vera Cruz, the Mexican authorities appear to resard the dip- lomatic exchanges as a closed Incident. Interest in tle possible resumption of the negotiations Is overshadowed by the opening of congress tomorrow and the delivery of Provisi 11 President Will Disclose Huerta's Attitude. Much importance is attached to the me age which is expected to review recent development in the relation: between Mexico and nited State: coercive measures of the United Stat Anti-Catholic Movement. That there will be two well organ- fzed wings on the floor of the cham ber of deputles, whose chief object will be to oppose the influence of the Catholic party, is common report in political circles, 300 Rebels Killed. local history has nominated a complete | Kl Paso, Texas, Sep 4—Three town ticket and Baturday these nomi- [ hundred rebels of Franeisco Villa's nations were ratified by the members | command were killed on Friday in a after being passed upon by the state | battls with the federal forces of Gen executive committee, orals Macele Caraveo and Antonig Ro. jas at Bustillos, Chihuahua, accord- | ing to the official federal messages r o . o ceived today at Juarez from Gene e wservices In;this clly. 2R au- | Nlercado of Chihuahua. Several re els were made prisoners the | erals. by CANOE TO CAPSIZE Ocoupants Drowned and Saved near Gildersiceve. I l | 1 | Two Portland, Conn, Sept. young persons were drowned and others saved, when & canoce was over- turned in the Connecticut near G sleeve tonight by the swell of a 14 ‘ | a pass- | ing yacht bound = north. wWillam | | Johnson of Cromwell and Miss Clara Swanson of this place were drowned, and Carl Ludwig and Ruth Anderson of New Britlan were saved after a desperate effort. The accident was seen from the | yacht and a dory lowered and manned | Ludwig and Miss Ander- saved in the nick of time, as neither could swim, and both were nearly exhausted by th water. The accident happened shortly aftei o'clock; two hours later the body of Johnson was recovered. Miss | Swanson’s body had not been located | The name of the yacht could not be | ascertained but js Is said to have flown | the flag of the Hartford Yacht Club. MERIDEN’S NEW HIGH | SCHOOL TO OPEN TODAY | The girl was bright and pretty and See | when she was graduated in her seven- | Structure Which Cost $225000 to | teenth vear arrangements were made Accommodate 800 Students. for her to receive a musical educa- - n. For some reason these a - | Meriden, Conn., Sept. 14—Meriden's ments were abandoned, and it was |new $225,000 high school, which is con | decided she should come to the United |sidered to be one of the most modern | | States equipped in the state, was opened to Schmidt Was Kind to Her. |public inspection Saturday and Sunday [ Igler said the girl's aunt was re- |During the two days it is estimated | ligiously inclined and through friends |that 10,000 persons visited in'the clergy arrangements were made |and were ushered through th | to have Anna cared for when she ar- | by members of the school be rived here. During her infrequent [school opens tomorrow for | calls at the home of Igler while she [term, when 800 students will was at the St. Boniface rectory she |signed to places in the various class | referred to Father Hans Schmidt. She [rooms. The student hody vear aid he had fdequently been kind to |surpasses all enumeration of the school her. She never gave igler the slight- |in its history. The school has many est hint that she had any other inier- [art objeets of worth donated hy vari est in Schmidt than an admiration for [ous organizations of the city. The | his qualities as a priest huilding was, erected withip the ap | propriation, the &chool board heing SCHMIDT IN LOUISVILLE Denied Appointment by Bishop Be cause of His Poor English. | Louisyille, Ky., Sept. 14—The Rev. Hans Schmidt, who was arrested in | New York today for the murder of | Anna Aumuller, was in Louisville from | | August, 1909, until March, 1910. He was not connected officially with any | church here, but was a visitor in the home of the Rev. Henry B. Wester- mann, pastor of the Church of the Im- | maculate Conception, where he was {Teceived at the request of the late | Bishop Willlam McCloskey of the dio- cese of Louisville. Father Schmidt had applied to | Bishop MeCloskey for an appointment but was refused on the ground that he | could not speak English fluently and | his visit in the home of the Rev. Westermann was intended to expe- dite his acquisition of English. According to the Rev. Westermann, his visitor kept his counsel and his | own company, having little to do with others in the house, or so far as he knew, with outsiders, He' personally cared for his own room, declining to admit a servamt, | He held tho degres of doctor of phil. osophy from the University of Munich and spent much of his time in the study of mclence, “NOT MENTALLY RESPONSIBLE” Opinion of Bishop McFaul Regarding Father Bohmidt, Trenton, N, J, Bept, 14—Bishop James A, MoFaul of the Cathelie dlos gege of Trenton tonight expressed the Dbelief that the Hev, Hans Wohmidt “is nol mentally respensible.” Jather Rehmidi was pusinr nf B Mutthew's ehurah hees for ahout sevan meonihs in 1816 during the illness of Rov, Jo- #eph Rathner, able to turn over a few dollars surplus [to the town. AN AUTO ACCIDENT HAS. FATAL RESULT. Mrs, Francis Lawrence of Brookline, N. H., Dies of Her Injuries. Concord, N. H., Sept. 14.—Mrs. Fran- cis Lawrence of Brookline, N. H., who was Injured in an automobile accident here early Saturday mcrning, died to- | @ay at a local hospital of a fractured skull and numerous internal injuries. Warren Towner and Carleton H. Tom- er of Melrose, Mass., also members of the party, are in a serfous condition at the hospital. | Chief of Police Crais said today that he had placed Tomer under arrest at the hospital, charged with reckless driving. FIVE MADE ILL BY A TOADSTOOL Poisonous Fungus Mistaken for Mush- room—All Will Recover. Hartford, Conn., Sept, 14—A toad- stool, mistakien for mushroems, made five members of the household of Charles Dulevits of this oily seriously {l lest night, Dulevits, hig wife, two children and a bomrder, who partook of the megl, are all in a’ hospital. Fo tunately thelr mistake was seon di covarsd, mnd quick medlaal aid un. doubtedly did much to save thair lives, At the hospital tenight it wus sald that all would probably recover, Butter from Siberla mnd Ausiralia | is At New Vork, in bond wajling fo make itg dsbut inte the American market afler (he pussags of fhe new (apiff bill alopg with Argentins beef which is soon expecied | mendous burdens to Thaw Wished to Attend (Ghurch SHERIFF, HOWEVER, IT INADVISABLE DEEMED NO AIRING ON SUNDAY Not Even Permitted tosEnjoy a Walk— To Get Into the Custody of the United States Government. Colebrook, N. H,, Sept. 14—The pro- tection of the United States courts had not actually come to Harry K. Thaw tonight. The writ of habeas corpus ob- tained yesterday from Federal Judge Aldrich at Concord was not served on Sheriff Drew today, and the Thaw law- vers sald tonight that probably it would not be served until tomorrow after- noon. On Tuesday morning Thaw will be taken before Judge Aldrich at Lit- tlton, when arguments on the writ will be heard No. Airing #or Harry. Thaw spent a quiet Sunday, his fifth away from Matteawan. He did not even go out for a walk. THe desired to nttend church, but the sheriff said he thought it best not to parade him on the qulet of the Sabbatl e corrldors of the Monadnock house, 1ere Thaw is held, were crowded to- with country folk wh hoped to get 2 Only those wha w a meal and see Thaw at table sity satis- fled, howey To Ask for Continuance. Unless Jerome has some powder con- led somewhere, Thaw will be taken ttleton early Tilesday morning. s corpus argument is set esday morning. Thaw's v 4 continua hus g over the and then pro- transferred to Con. , for the hearing b rved on in the tates gov of n noti wnd ind be & new expe ord White fede tonie Ielker hs 1 for the nex and he is al pro- that 1 Jerome said aft THE COST OF LIVING IS HIGHER THAN LAST YEAR Advance of Over Three Per Cent. Dis- covered by Investigation. Sept. 14.The was approximately han tk more cost o June per ce an it w year ago nearly fifteen per her than it was two years ago Investigations of retail prices in for- citles conducted by experts of the sureau of labor show prices practi- cally the same level as last when the high records wrter century were reach ticles food n o W vestigated and compa wi | average prices between 1890 an xcept sugar showed vance; bacon which led which ed remar) s wer cent.: round he s 76.8 rlo lard 66.5 toes 44.4; butter 38.4; and | NO NEW CHARGE AGAINST SULZER Governor Will Be Tried on the Charges As They Now Stand. York, Sept wrges will Aaron J. L 5 leader o assembly, again declin oday to public ‘the name of the lawyer d been reported havi what Mr. Levy considered proposition from Governor Sul T cannot zive his name until eleases me from a personal pled [ made him,” Mr. Levy said POPE PIUS ENJOYS WONDERFUL VIGOR Statement of Cardinal O’Connell, Re- cently Returned from Rome. Boston, Sept. 14.—Cardinal O'Con- nell, who recently returned from a vis- it to Rome, delivered a short address o the congregation in the hedral of the Holy Cross today, in which he spoke of the pope's health. The car- dinal said: “Our holy father enjoys wonderful igor for one of such age, so advanced in years, but especially with such tre- bear, with so many difficulties to surmount and with s0 many dally trials to face. “During my stay in Rome he grant- ed me varlous audiences and appear ed almost completely restored to health and strength and had already besun to take up his work as usual.” FIRE DESTROYS THE BETHEL PAPER MILL a Houss Also Gutted—$23,000 Loss by Incendiary Blae, Adji Bethel, Conn, Sept, 14—Fire, thought 'to have been of incendiery origin, early today partlally destroyed the Frank Olarle paper mill and prac- tlcally gutted the adjolning houss oe- cupled by W. H. Ochs, The loxs to the factory i3 estimated at $15,000 and to the Ochs house 38,000, Tha fire for @ time threatened to spread to other butldings, The loss 1s covered by in- surance. Steamship Arrlvals. New Vork, Hepl, 14, —Arrived, steam. er Rochambeau, lavre. | for Condensed Teiegrams Workmen excavating in Plattsmouth, Neb., unearthed a mound of 58 skulls. Professor Robert Coit Chapin of Bel- oit College died at a hospltal at White- field, N. H., of pneumonia. Kansas will send flve hundred more students to its institutions for higher education this fall than it did last year. William L. Page and Wilber ¥. Cromer of Chicago, who were com- missioned to explore the Amazon, are believed to have been slaln by nafives. The Lexington, Ky., Board of Tiduca- tion jssued an order providing that the Bible be read in the class rooms every morning before beginning the session. Charles Moss, of Huntington, Ind, was almost stung to death by bumble- bees while working on a farm near Huntington. William G. Crabbs, auditor of the Central Vermont Railway, died at his | home at St. Albans, Vt, Saturday. He was 52 years old, Flying a bed sheet as a flag of truce, a special train from Chihuahua, Mex., reached Juarez Saturday bearing American refugees. Three surveyors attached to the Canadian boundary survey, were killed when a landslide destroyed their camp at Camp Msson, Dall Island. Brigadier General Edwin M. Coates, Y. S. A, died at his home at Washing- ton Saturday, after an illness of nearly a ¥ He 'w years old. George O. Hartman, the leper, who escaped from quarantine at St. Louis, is reported hiding in Mexico. He has appealed to friends in St. Louls for funds. Chisf James Flaherty, who repre- sented the entire Police Department of Metuchen, J., resigned when the City Council fined him $10 for attend- ing a clambake. Lisutenant Nestozoff, a Russian avi- ator, was sentenced to 10 days’ solitary | confinement for unnecessary risk at St. Petersburg, when he looped the | loop in an aeroplane. Richard J. Dillon, hotel man and former owner of many railroad station | restaurants in New Fngland, which | brought him wealth, died at Hartford Saturday, after a year's illness IR~ a fight between United States crs and Mexlcan mmugglers at arrizo Springs, Texas, Saturday, one | lexican was kifled, six Mexicans were | | | soll wounded and fourieen were captured. The first commercial shipment of Argentine beef that ever reached New vk was brought there Saturday by | ¥ the steamship Van Dyke from Buenos Aires.It consisted of 1,000 quarters, Surgeon General Blue of the Publio | Health Service declares thers {8 no cause for alarm in the death from bu- | | bonle plugue at Martines, California. The case is regurded simply as a sporadio ene, Post Wheeler, secretary of the Amer- [ican embassy at Rome, has been re- {called to Washington to consult with Secretary Bryan, and the question of his ret will depend upon the issue of that conference Mark Twain's” cave south of Han- nibal, Mo., where Tom Sawyer and his companions had their rende: was the scene of the finding of $4,000 worth of plunder, which five Hannibal boys confessed they bad stolen. Justice Meclnenny in_the w York of Special Sessions refused to | Sam Lee to take the Chinese Ly cutting off a chicken's head, siifying agaihst Charles Smith, charged with stealing $13 from Lee. That the young American rescued by Monks with dogs in the Alps, according as William Dawson Jr | tion ul, aul, vice-consul of the U t Fr and lts Total Circulation is the Largest in Connecticut in Proportion to the City NEW RULES ON NEW HAVEN ROAD PROMULGATED IN “THE INTEREST OF SAFETY’ ’s Population - To Govern Promotion of Firemen to Engineers and of Engineers to Advanced Grades of Service - % /) One Year’s Experience to be Required of Engineers Before Beinug Placed on Passenger Locomotives and Two Years* Experience Before They will be Allowed to Run Fast Trains—Brotherhood Official Surprised at Action New Haven, Conn., ty,” new rules governing the promotion | of firemen to engine neers to advanced grades of servic and for “the discipline of both,” were promulgated today New Haven and “effective at once.” by Hartf A Sept. railroad, of ord committee the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi- neers, headed by Chairman F. S. Evans, has had #ive conferences with General Manager C. L. Bar the it, during wh. ed to any outlined by the company past fortni was expre as had b officials of ich opposition change of rules | the operating Not Intended to Impose Hardship. In posting the new rules the com- pany says this is done “in accordance with its previously announced policy to adopt and enforce every reasonable rule and practice which experience hag shown would help to protect life and Dpreserve property.” “In_promulgating these new rules.” says the road In a statement, there is no intention on the part of the man- agement to impose hardshi ous conditions upon its employes. hey are solely intended to promote safety in operation. The rules do not | in any way interfore with or change | the hours of service, the rates of pay or other working conditions. As adopted they are tically the same as on many eastern roads. Existing Rules Do Not Meet Demands. Continuing, the statement says that “when the purposes of the new rules are understood by the men mvolved the management is satisfied that they will be accepied as an honest effort on » part of the management to bring about !mproved conditions and that no controversy can exist between the men and the company where the question of safety only is involved.” General Manager Fardo, In muking pubdlic & copy of the nev made the following engineers: ( “I want to emphasize I can that which I h Ftated to your committe rules are designed and s convincing demonstra ing demands of the se comply with the recom the interstate commerc and the public utilities ¢ the siate of Connecticn the sole purpose of i safety of our service an tection of our patrons There is no desire on ti management to restrict withdraw from service an physically fit and by exp fled for his position. No Favoritism to Be “The obligation of t plain. These rules will Yith the semority of the men except | where the question of ps or oner- tem, th as strongly as we repeatedly es, that these ibmitted after tion that our srvice and to mendations of commission ommission of t and are for nereasing the a for the pro= and employes, \e part of the the rights or hy man wio {8 ericnce qualls Permitted 1o raliroad 1s not interfere fitness, ab ty 14.—In What 1s claimed “(ho interest of safe- | fince these requirements can be.den and previous service are involved, and | nitely fixed by the record and service of the men involved there IS no Oppor=- s and of engi- | tunity for favoritism and none will be Permitte The jected were those relating to the Seniority rule, the physical and visual tests and the methods of discipline, In an officlal statement issued by the committee it is claimed that orders to “make time,” issued in 1911, and the disciplinary results which accompanied failure to “make time” have been largely responsible for conditions on the system in the past two years, and the additional claim was = advanced that conditions developed by the order to “make time” has “demoralized the force.” he commfttee declared that a restoration of conditions to those which existed before the alleged “make time” order of 1911 would @ec complish everything desired in tha proposed set of rules submitted by Mr, Bardo. Requirement as to- Experience. One of the principal rules changed iz that relating to the experience en- gineers must now have before being placed at the throttle of fast express- es. The investigation of the Stamford wreck by the interstate commerce commission showed that white Engi= neer Doherty was, under the terms of the then existing agreement, entitled to run his engine, he had had practi= cally no experlence on fast trains. Now, acting.upon the commission’ recommendations, engineers will have at least one vear's experience befora being placed on passenger locomotives and two years' experience before be= ing allowed on the fast trains. Assistant Chief Griffing Surprised. L. G. Grifing of Cleveland, O., as= sistant grand chief of the Brotherhood Che particular changes in rules ta the New York, | which the brotherhood committes ob= of Locomotive Engineers, who is hers | to confer with the New Haven road officlals concerning the controversy, || said tonight that he was surprised at the "summary action” of the road in putting the rules into immediate effect. | Up until the make time order went into effect a few years ago, he said, there had been no serious wrecks om the road, and he thought if those rules - worked 80 successfully for thirteen years they would operate well now. Mr, Griffing said the men would obey the new rules, but in the meantime other conferences with the operating officlals of the road would be request~ ed. He hoped the matter could be sate isfactorily adjusted. Chalrman Evans Silent. Chairman ¥, 8, Evans of the broth« erhood dented mmfiu to newspaper= men men tonight, Meetings of the en- gineers' and firomen's unions were held this afternoon, but nothing was given out for pubMcation. L. L. Mitchell of Boston, secretary of the general com= mittee of adjustment of the brother« ' hood, is expected here tomorrow. BISHOP HOSS GIVES VIEWS ON TOBACCO. No Gentleman Use It in Houses Where It Is Offensive. St. Louis, Mo, Sept. 14—Bishop B Hoss of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, yesterday sent a letier to the Rev. C. H. Hawkins, presiding elder of the St. Louls district of the church, in which he ex; s views | st ankfort on the Main | received at St. Paul, Minn., Saturday Captain Ibsen, Stein and Krieger de- |clared they would complain to the | Kaiser about the treatment meted out |to them after the international hoat | races held off Marblehead, Mass. The; | mobbed as they were leaving a | Mr. and Mrs. Pemberton Price of ladelphia who were injured at Haven on September 2, when | Mountain express crashed | Harbor express, were | the New Haven hospital Tim” Sullivan the New York who rose from newsboy to ressman, is dead. Sullivan, who il eluded his nurses in the carly ng of August 31 and a few hours | arter was struck and killed by @ train it Pelham Parkwa Troops were withdrawn from duty at New Lexington, Ohio, Saturday, order having been restored following a riot there which was precipitated by a lec ture by Jeremiah Crowley, who claimed to be a former Catholic priest. Crowley has left New Lexington Representative Kindel of Celorado, has determined to push his resolution for congressional investigation of the Union Pacific-Southern Pacific merger | dissolution, but will withdraw a para- | graph charging Attorney General Mec- | Reynolds with violating President Wil- | son’s instructions. | Mrs. Edna Perkins Godbee Saturday | was found guilty at Millen, Ga., of the | | murder of Mrs. Florence Godbee, wife of her divorced husband. The jury recommended mercy. Mrs. Godbee khot | and killed her former husband and his {wife in the Millen post office a few weeks ago. She received a life sen- tence. Dr. I. M. Goldstein, of Russia has arrived at San Francisco, on a tour of investigation relative to the possibility of Increasing trade between his country and the United States by sending t Russian Volunteer fleet, a subsidized commercial line, to San Francisco and Vancouver with the opening of the Panama canal SENATORS ON VACATION. Brandeges and MclLean to Spend a Few Daye in Home State. (Bpecial to The Bullettn) Washington, Sept, 14-—Both Bena- tors Brandegce und McLean will take advantage of he lull in the buslness of the senate and go to thelr Con- necticut homes for a few days’ vaca- rdegee says 1t has been Senator Tira about fiye years sinee he has heen able to spend & summer at his homs and he will take advantage of tha recass ro K up and ride about the slate and re. new his old scquaintances address by Missouri conference to make the no: dition of entrance into of the church | week, In which he was quoted as ¢ ing that no minister who was a gen- tleman would use tobacco. The letter to Mr. Hawkins says in part “I did not bring up the subject of tobacco myself, but it came before the conference in a memorial to the ap- proaching general conference asking it use of tobacco a con- sur minisgry “Pergonally, 1 am_ not in favor of such legislation, and I took occasion to gay: ‘To make the use of tobacco a sin is to grade down the general conceptioni of sin until people losa sight of its enormity. Smoking a cigar is a question of expediency. Ministers are very frequently enter- tained in houses whers tobaco is of fensive, and under such cirenmstances no gentleman will use i SULZER CONFIDENT ACQUITTAL OF HIS a Fair Tria | Predicts Satisfying Outcome If He Has L Albany, N. ¥, Sept. 14—*T am going to be acauitted,”” said Governor Wii- x-J v Her is counsel, he each ent trial commence on Thursday before the sta the court of appeals, siit of impeachment “I am going to be ac Governor Sulzer, “if I w trial. I have said but this is a trial, not a They are both judges and some hard about some of the senators and the have said some hard things about me and te sena ing as u co ave a fair thin, political fight, arors and I belleve most of them are large enough and just enough to rise a sonal feeling they may bove any per- entertain to- ward me because of what I have said and do want.” them, 1 I about that s me justice and Steamers Reported by Wireless. York, Sept. 14 Liverpool for Ne nalled 9§95 miles east of at_noon. Dock 8 a. m. Steamer Kaiser Wilhel for New York, signalled 1 New onis, Steamer Car- w_ York, sig- Sandy ' Hook Wedneseday. m IT, Bremen 100 miles east of Sandy Hook at 8 a. m. Dock 12.30 p. m, Tuesday. $25,000 Residence Burned. Ridgefield, Conn, &ept 14.—The handsome restdenes of Jeseph Conren of New Yeork, lonated ahy from here, was totally fira b un surly hour 1s estimaied wt §$25.006, not known, faday, 1 thres milax destrayed by The loss The erigin is | | FROST PREDICTED !/ FOR THIS MORNING: SRS Unsettled Rainy Weather Forecasted for About Tuesday. ‘Washington, Sept. 14—Early autumn | rosts in the lower lake region, the mid~ | dle Atlantic states, New England and the extreme northwest are predicted hy the weather bureau for Monday, The weekly forecast tonight says: “The week will open with rains, con~ tinuing in the southern states and ex~ | tending into the Ohio valley and the middle /@lantic states, and about Tues- day unsettled rainy weather will pre- vail over all central and northern sec~ tions east of the Mississippl river, but by Wednesday and Thursday generally fair weather should prevail over all dis- triets, “There are no indications of any nn+ usually high or low temperatures dur- ing the weel, but frosts will oocur om Monday morning over the lower region, the middle Atlantic states, New England and the extreme northwest” SEIZED WITH CRAMP ON A STEEP CRAG Body of French Mountain Climbes Found Badly Mutilated. A ‘Vienna, Sept. 14~—~Count Maurics 44 Lilienthal, a Frenchman, has met a tragio death while climbing a moun- tain M the Semmering district. With a young woman, who is an expert climber, he spent thres days fn the moxntains. While they were attempt- ing to climb a steep crag he was seized with a cramp. His campabniguh tried to help him with one arm, bu ol everal hundred feet, mnearly ging her dow The woman reached a hut near the top of the slope and led a rescue party jack. The body was found badly mu< tilated. EDISON ORDERED TO TAKE A REST Must Lay Off at Least a Week Befora Resuming Work, Orange, N. J., Sept. 14—Thomas As Haison, recovering at his home hers from an indisposition which kept him confined to his bed for several days, has been ordered by his physiclan to take at least a week's rest befors re- suming work In his laboratory. Mr. Fidison for years had claimed that he was uble to get along with perhaps less rest than any other man and he does not take kindly to his physician's ordars, but nevertheless, 1t i3 said, will comply with them, New Roller Polo League. New Haven, Conn., Sept. 14.—Tenta< tive plans for the formation of a new roller polo league in place of the old Empire Sta ‘%fl ‘were formulated at a meeting d here today. Ac< cord to the plans, teams will be Albany, Schenectady, River,