Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, February 25, 1914, Page 1

VOL._ LVI—NO. 48 == 'THE BODY MIGHT DETERMINE MANNER OF DEATH Willing to Exhume Body That Relatives May See It, But Must be Reinterred in Same Grave—U. S. Secret Service Men Get Information That Bauch, the German-Ameri- can, Met the Same Fate—American Citizen Dragged Across Border From Laredo, Texas, and Hanged by Fed- erals—Far-Reaching Investigation of Benton’s Death to be Made by United States—Praise From British Diplomat Washington, Feb, 24—Just what General Villa proposed to do about the request of the United States gov- ernment that he deliver up the body f William S. Benton, the British sub- ject executed by Villa at Juarez, ap- parently was an open question late tonight. Early in the evening Secre- tary Bryan had accepted a message from the constitutionalist - chief - to Consular Agent Carothers at Juarez as & promise that the body would be turn- ed over to American authorities as soon as the matter eould be arranged. This message was translated to: read that the body would be delivered “but not at this time.” Relatives May See Body. Just before midnight state depart- ment officials made public this an- nouncement “American _consul Chihuahua re- ports that Villa declines to deliver Benton's body, but will permit widow or relatives to visit the eemetery with American representatives, that for their benefit he will order exhumation of body which then will be re-interred in grave from which it is removed.” General Vilia is now at Chihuahua and it is supposed that Consul Letcher has been in personal communication with him. The consul will be asked for further details of the reply to- morrow. Physicians to Examine Body, From the character of the wounds discovered on Benton's body pnysi- ciang will be able to say whether Ben- ton was Ikilled by a pistol shot as his friends claim, or by a firing squad as Villa asserts. It is generaily ad- mitted in official circles that such an examination will be of great value in elther afirming or disproving an important point in tha general explan- ation of the affalr made by Villa. American Hanged by Federals. Developments were many in the sit- uation that hasearisen out of the kili- ing of Benton. Secretary Bryan asked the American consular representative at Nogales to confer with General Car- ranza about the affair. The secretary talked with Acting Chairman Shively of the senate foreign relations com- mittee and then at length with Pres- ident Wilson. The incident was fully discussed at a cabinet meeting. Sir Cecll Spring Rice, the British ambas- sador, later called on Secretary Bryan and arranged for the visit of British Consul Perceval to El Paso to sup- plement the American inquiry though not to interfere with it. The secre- tary then conferred again tonight with the president at the White House. News of the hanging of Clewmento Vergara, an American citizen, by Mex- ican federals near Neuvo Laredo, Mex- ico, directed attention to the Huerta government on the subject of proteo- tion to foreigners. Represemtations in behalf of Vergara had been made by the state department some time ago, hut no information about his where- abouts or the reported execution had been recelved here tonight, A Far-Reaching Inquiry. Cabinet officers indicated clearly that official judgment of the Benton inci- deni would not be hasty and that the American government was carefully occupied just now in gathering the facts. Detalls of the character of the American investigation were not of- flcially known here until the publica- tion of despatches from London today giving the text of Secretary Bryan's e e to the British ambassador. The fact that the United States had instructed its consuls to have the body exhumed and examined; and to em- ploy legel assistance and examine wit- nesses indicated the far reaching na- ture of the inquiry. In ad@itlon to this Secretary Bryan announced that a communication had been telegraphed for presentation to General Carranza by an American con- sul, asking the constitutionalist com- mander-in-chief for more information about the Benton incident. The sec- retary denied that this took the form zeneral representations about foreigners, =aying it was confined en- tirely to the Benton incident. Recognition of Carranza’s Jurisdiction. In sonie guarters the sending of = communication o Carranza about Villa’s act was regarded as-involving 2 techmical Tecognition of Carranza’s Jurisdiction over Villa, but Secretary Bryan tonight stated positively that he regarded today’s message as sim- ilar to others which previously have been presented by American consuls | to Carranza and the de facto authori- ties in Mexico. Dealings with the de facto officers in_the north, Mr, Bryan | regards as no different from the in- formal relations at Mexico City with the unrecognized Huerta government. Upon the receipt of inguirles at Juarez, both the American consuls and the British consul at El Paso, the development of the next few days seem to hinge, Praise from British Ambassador. That the interest which the Ameri~ ean government is taking in the Ben- ton episode is pleasing to Great Britain was indicated after the British am- bassador had conferred with Secretary Bryan. Sir Cecil sSpring-Rice said: ‘The United States is treating the Eenton case exactly.sa though he had been one of their own citizens—they could not do more.” Consul Letcher’ reporied today his inability to locate '&uuv Bauch in Chihuahua, although General Villa had been guoted s saying that Bauch was \ransferred from Juarez to Chihuahua Jail. No news has been received con- cerning the whereabouts of Harry Information ! from Carranza and the progress of the | } den change of weather, | for the American legation at Mexico City, but that he had not vet reached a decision on that peint. VILLA’S EXPLANATION. Would Be Sacrilege to Remove the Body, He Says. El Paso, Texas, Feb. 24—General Franeisco Villa at Chihuahua today ! refused to give up the body of Wil- liam S. Benton, a British subjeet, who was executed in Jnarez several days agp. His reason, as embodied in a telegram to the El Paso Morning Times through its staff correspondent at Chi- huahua, has aroused bitter feelong along the border. “I will not give up the body, out of respect to the dead,” Villa’s mes- sage said.- “It was interred with all religious observances and cross eretted over it and I will not allow the sacri- lege of its removal.” Body Would Show Manner of Death. This word came in response to a tel- egram sent by one of his subordinates at Juarez, informing him that no per- sonal idea should keep him from per- | mitting the transfer of the body to the widow, and informing him that per- haps he was not familiar with the storm of criticism which has greeted his failure to do so. A definite refusal to give up the body was received by a consular rep- | resentative of the United States this | afternoon and forwarded to Washing- ton. The explanation came to Juarez. Many persons here today sat@ that the refusal indicated to their minds that Benton was shot by Villa and that he feared to deliver the body lest its condition indicate the manner of | death as other than by court martial. | Accuses Benton of Cattle Stealing. It is.hoped that within a day or two the statement of a competent witness to the shooting, alleged by enemies of Villa t ohave taken place in his head- quarters, may be obtained. Americans and representatives of the Mexican federal government are working to this end. Villa’s statement, telegraphed from Chihuahua today, that Benton was guilty of four murders and making a charge of cattle stealing =gm-ust the dead man, was received by Benton's friends with derision. Three of them who knew Benton intimately were ask- ed if there was any basis for the chérges. They asserted no charge of the sort ever had been brought against the Englishman, Bauch Probably Executed. Secret service men in the employ of the United States government today received information which was not divulged, which Indicated, it is said, that Gustav Bauch, an Amerfean cft- izen, has met a fate similar to Benton’s. Thomas D. Edwards, consul at Ju- arez, has been repeatedly assured that Bauch was safe in Chilluahua, await- ing a review of his case, wherein he is charged with being a spy. Mean- while Marion Letcher, consul at Chi- huahua, after a search of the jails and barracks and diligent inquiry, has been unable to find auch, Villa last night, in. an interview, asserted to newspaper men that he had not taken the German-American from Juarez at = < AMERICAN HANGED, Dragged Across Border from Texas and ‘Executed by Federats. Texas, Feb. 24.—Clemento Vergara, an American citizen, captured and carried into Mexico recently by Mexican federais, was hangea the morning after his capture, acrocding to advices brought here today from Hidalgo, Mexico. Vergara had been ordered released by the federal com- mander at Piedras Negras as the result of representatio: in his benalf by | American authorities, ! Vergara it was reported, complain~ ed thal Mexican federals were stealing | his horses from an island in the Rio | Grande near Palafox, was lured to the | island Dy promises of pay for the horses, knocked in the head and car- vied unconsclons into Mexico, PROPOSES’ BREAKWATER FOR OCEAN BEACH. Would Be Protection—Make Anchorage for Boats. New London, Conn., Feb. 24— Ithe respective countries, according to | ence | didates for The Bullotin’s Ciruclation in Nowich is Double That of Any Other Paper, REFUSES TO GIVE UP BENTI]_N’S BODY Villa Says It Would Be Sacrilege to Remove It Be- cause of Its Religious Burial Cabled Paragraphs Blacklist of Reckless Autoists. Berlin, Feb. 24.—Germany and France from March 1 will communicate to| each other the names, residences and other details in regard to all automo- bilists who have been convictea for violations of the traffic regulations in an agreement just signed and which was announced today. Non- nts Seek Asquith. London, Feb. 25—An independent body of non-militant suffragists, for the most men, has been persist- ently trying to obtain a personal in- terview with Premier Asquith, but the only deputation to see his secretary so that their protest in’writing against forcible feeding and the “cat and mouse” act might be submitted. Disorders by Unemployed. Budapest, Feb. 24—Serious demon- strations by the unemployed have been held during the past week, culminat- ing today inf a procession of 30,000 to the parliament house, demanding that the government provide work. Final- ly the demonstrators began stoning windows and looting shops. The police drew their swords and dispersed the rioters. CLEMENCY SHOWN TO A MAIL CLERK, Seery of East Bridgeport Indicted for Irregularities. New Haven, Conn., Feb. 24—W. J. Seety, a clerk for the last ten years in the Kast Bridgeport postoffice, who was. indicted today by the federal grand jury, charged with failing to deliver letters, and other irregularities, was fined $100 by Judge Kdwin S. Thomas in the United States district court late today. The judge then sus- | pended the fine and placed Seery in the hands of a probation officer—the Rev. Father McEiroy, of Bridgeport. Jacob Klein of Bridgeport, attorney for Seery, claimed that the conditions in the East Bridgeport postoffice had been demoralized for some time and said Seery was not to blame for the alleged irregularities, the fault being wili the system. A petition asking the clemency of the court, signed by forty or more names, was presented to Judge Thomas. Among the signers were Su- perintendent of Police Birmingham and Father McElroy. Alitaches of the court say that Judge Thomas in appointing Father McElroy as probation officer shattered all prece- dents. It is customary, it is said, to| name the prosecuting officer of the court in such cases. Adeibert Sisson, alias Benson, of | Waterbury, charged with forging a | money order for $10 and securing pay- ment of the same from Senator Hur- ley of Waterbury, was sentenced to | the federal penitentiary at Atianta, Ga,, for two vears. He has been in trouble before. | An indictment was returned against | Dominick Birelll of Hartford, charzed | with violating the Mann white slave | act in bringing Katie Arnone from | Boston to Hartford for immoral pur- | poses. * 4 Other - Indictments were: Willlam Preston of New Haven, charged with stealing 105 pairs of shoes from a | freight car at the Cedar Hill yards in | vioiation of the interstate commerce ! laws_and Phineas Phaneuf and Casi- | mir Paskinwiski, both of New Haven, charged with making and distributing counterfeit dimes. f The grand jury was excused until next term. The petit jury was excused | until next Wednesday. i COURT MARTIAL NEWS WITHHELD FROM PUBLIC Newspaper Reporters Refused Passage to Plum lsland. New London, Conn., Feb, 24.—Whait occurred at the general court martial proceedings against Major Benjamin M. Koehler at Fort Terry on Plum Is- land today is known only to officers of the court, and unusual precautions have been taken to prevent the news from “leaking” out to the puplic, The charges against the major have not been made publle, but are said to be | of a general nature of conduct unbe- coming an officer and immoran Members of the court went to the island—which is thirteen miles out in Long Island sound—in a government transport at noon. A provost sergeant 5t00d at the gang plank and prevented | anyone from boarding the vessel, ex- cept members of the court and army officers. A squad of newspaper re- porters were refused passage to the island. The only means of communication with the island tonight is by telephone to quarters at the fort and officers de- cline to discuss the case in any way, It is said, however, that the accused officer was presented before tne court late today. Actual testimony, which is currently “reported to be of a sej tional nature, will not begin until to- morrow morning, it is sald MIRROR HUNG IN A VOTING BOOTH. | Effort to Make It Pleasant for Chica- | go's Women Voters. Chicago, Feb. 24 —Thousands of ( cago women had their first real experi- today ith the ballot and took part in the actual nomination of can- the city council. There was some excitement in wards in which women candidates were run- ning in_opposition to men seekers for places in the city council. In these wards women sought the polls early and the women candidates toured the One suggestion for the prevention { of damage at Ocean Beach is that a | { breakwater be built along the front of | { the beach, 200 feet, 300 feet, or €ven | further, off shore. The breakwater, the H | claim fs, wili not be as expensiv | Proposition as it will be to drive piles { and construction for the underpinning { for walks and seawalls. A breakwater would prove a benefit in more ways than one. During the summer months it is impossible for cotiagers to keep valuable launches ' | anchored off the beach because of the danger of their belng driven ashore, drifting from moorings, with a sud- | Anchorages | for smail power boats could be made | safely. One of the cottagers predicts that faliy 100 summer residents’ at | ! Ocean Beac] would possess power boats if a sife anchorage was possible or if Alewife cove were dredged to suflicient depth. | Steamship Arrivals. Naples, Feb. 18—Steamer Mamtha Washington, New Yorlk. H Bergen, Feb. 20.—Steamer ridtlana Fjord, New York, Patras, Feb. 23.—Steamer Carpathia, New York. London, Feb, 24.—Sieamer Minneap- Compton and the ranchman Curtls, where whereabouts also is In aeubt. ‘hs:(:,ru:r,\‘-’ Dryan ul)gur intimaied 8t he had heen considering the pos #ibility of swtablishing ¢ marine guard olis, New- York | Plymouth, Steamer Presi~ | dent Grant, W r Hamburg. | New York, Feb. Steamers Pres- ident Lincoin irg; Ultonie, Trieste i | mouth, Cherbourg’ and Bremen, sig- wards and hustled for votes in ap- | My husband happened to be caught in Washington, Feb. 24— Trn‘n.&cur i proved political fashion. ;the net.” 5 r‘\\bntu‘l }'ng"hy\;:;fl“ol‘:w:;g” av(,:,;, -, A snowstorm early in the day de- | Mrs. Becker Teaching School. American Au ile s . layed many voters and a movement | district attorney | twentieth could not be convicted under | | this 1 Rose, Webber and Vallon. ldnur leading to the corridor. | and kissed him. CONVICTION REVERSED COURT OF APPEALS. BY WON'T BE TRIED AGAIN District Attorney Believes It Useless in View of Court's Opinion—Court Finds Becker Didn't Have Fair Tr New York, Feb, 24—The conviction of Charles Becker, former police lieu- tenant, of the murder of the gambier, Herman Rosenthal,. was annulled to- day, by the court of appeals at Albany, the ‘highest tribunal in the state. Beck- | er is entitled to & new trial, but it seemed probable tonight that he might go free without facing a second or- deal. It was made known that Dis- trict Attorney Charles S. Whitman believes that under the prevailing opinion handed down by the court con- viction a second time will be impos- sible. “The district attorney is the last man in the werld,” said Mr. ‘Whitman to- night, ““who _should want a conviction to stand which is not justifiable by law. That is all the comment that I care to make.” Testimony of Accomplices Not Cred- ible. s the district attorney was said to have interpreted the opinion, the tes- timony of the three Chief witnesses against Becker—Jack Rose, Bridgle ‘Webber and Harry Vallon, self-comn- fessed avcomplices—has not been held by the court to be credible. Although it is known that the district attorney has new evidence which he could bring forth, the testimony of these three— the gamblers who said they hired the gunmen to kill Rosenthal at Becker's behest—was the foundation of the case. Mr. Whitman was also under the im- pression tonight that in effect the court had held that Sam Schepps,the smooth talking little gambler who corroborat- ed the trio, also was an accomplice. To Request Dismissal of Indictment. “If twenty men were in the conspira- cy to murder,” a lawyer close to the said tonight, “‘and nineteen of th>m were to turn state’ evidence against the twentieth, the! decision. It would be futile bring Becker to trial again.” The suggestion put forth tonight that | the four gummen, now that their only hope lies in executive clemency, might turn state’s evidence was not received by the district attorney as one Ll’ll.(I offered any hope of aiding a convic- | tion. He thought their testimony un- der the ruling of the court also would lie in the ¢ame category as that of | It was the! consensus of opinion among those 2on- nected with the district attorney’s of- | fice that should any action be taken by | Recker's counsel toward securing n dismissal of the case, District Attorney | Whitman would not oppose it. | To Ask Dismissal of Indictment. Attorney Shay, jubilant tonight and | declaring that the state’s case had fall- | to! | en to pleces, said he was going to see Becker early tomorrow, and that with- | in a day or two he could confer with | District Attorney Whitman and re- | quest a dismissal of the indictment. As | soon as the prison authorities receive the court’s remittitur, Becker will be! brought to New York and placed in the Tombs until his case is disposed of. | Mrs. Becker Kisses Shay. Mrs, Becker was {nformed of the re- versal by Attorney Shay. She immedi- | ately left her home and went to Shay's | offi There fifteen reporters, Beck- er's two brothers, Jackson Becker and | Police Lieut. John Becker. were walt- | ing for her. Shay himself was sitting | in an inner office, fifteen feet from the When Mrs, Becker opened the doer she glanc- | ed hurriedly around the room. Her eys fell vopn Shay and she ran through two offices to reach him. The score of men parted for her. The wom- an threw her arms around Bhay's peck Shay looked embar- rassed, and Mrs, Becker, realizing there were _spectators, blushed and retired behind a door leading to the reception room. Later she said : “I really suppose I should apologize for having kissed Mr. Shay before so many people. But I just couldn’t help | it. Anyway, why shouldn't I kiss him. | He has saved my husband's life.” Mrs. Becker Happy in Bereavement. | Mrs. Becker’s mother died yesterday | and will be buried tomorrow. Despite | this fact, Mrs. Becker's face was wreathed in smiles. { “I am the ~happiest woman in ‘the| vrorld,” she said. “I.do not belleve my | husband will ever be tried again, and Becker Escapes |Spanish Anthem Electric Chair; Was Not Played GERMAN ADMIRAL DiSPUTES DEWEY'S STATEMENT. INCIDENTS AT MANILA Concentration of German Squadron There Due to Circumstances—Errors in Dewey's Autobiography. Baden-Baden, Feb. 24.—The contro- versy over the friction between the American and German _admirals in Manila bay at the time of the Span- ish-American war, which has been re- vived by the narrative of Admiral Dewey recently published, was made the subject of a statement to The As- sociated Press today by Admiral Von Diederichs, commander of the war- ehips. 5 The German admiral took issue with | the statements made by Admiral Dewey. in his autobiography and said he felt himse!f forced to give his side of the case out of consideration for the honor of his country and his offi- cers, Admiral Von Diederichs attributed the troubles between the Germans and the Americans largely to maliclous re- ports that appeared in the English pa- pers in China, and the absence of defi- nite regulations governing the block- ade and the governments of foreign ships. He indicated, however, that a latent distrust was responsible in a measure for the tension. He was desirous of cooperating with and supporting Admiral Dewey from the beginning, he said, but the Amer- ican admiral’s fondness for Captain Chichester, in command of the British squadron, and the time Admiral Dewey spent with the British officers kept him from sceing as much of Admiral Dewey as he would have wished. Germans Played American Anthem. The foundation of the trouble was laid with the arrival of the first Ger- man cruiser, the Irene. It was report- ed in Manila that the band on the Irene played the Spanish anthem when passing the American squadron which was interpreted to mean that the Ger- mans were coming to take the Spanis ide. As a matter of fact, said the dmiral, the band plaved the Amer- ican anthem, but the erroneous verslon | reached the American sailors and ex- cited {ll feeling. The concentration of the German squadron in Manila bay, to which Ad- miral Dewey objeoted, was due, ac- cording to Admiral Von Diederichs, to a purely fortuituous chain of circum- stances, Concentration of German Sguadron. He believed that the German ests at Manila would be ‘ade: protected by the small crui and the Corman, and he planned to concentrate the halance of the sqvad- ron at Tsing-Tao where recruits and time-expired sailors were to be tran- shipped. The emperor, however, sent a cable message to him to proceed to Manila and assume charge personally. No mall steamer was available and the flagship Kaiser, a first class cruiser was undergoing repairs at Nagasaki. So, Admiral Von Diederichs and Flag Lieutenant Von Hintze, now minls!erl to Mexico, sailed on the protected cruiser Kaiserin Augusta for Manila, arriving there about the middle of June. There was no room on the Kai- Serin Augusta for the admiral’s staff, and the kaiser was compelled to follow with the staff aboard, Errors in Dewey Autobiography, Mildly. but very decidedly, Admiral Von Diederichs declared that the ac- count of the incidents. as related in the Dewey autobiography contains many errors, which he attributed prob- ably to defective memory of the events or to misinformation obtained from subordinates, He expressed regret that the Manila affair had bee nraked out of oblivion having hoped that the mis- understandings and diflerences had been smoothed over. He and Admiral Dewey were friends. and had ex- changed visits, letters and gifts, the admiral sald. REJECTED SUITOR SHOOTS A BRIDE Called Her to Door of Her Room in Hotel and Killed Her. San Francisco, Calif. Feb. 24.—Dis- | appointed in love, Abraham Pepper, of Tacoma, Washn., called Mrs. Dorothy Johnson, his former sweetheart, a bride of a week, to the door of a room in the hotel here where she was spend- ing her honeymoon today, shot her dead and then shot himself. With a bullet in his head, Pepper’s chances for recovery are said to be slight, F. L. Johnson, manager of a Ta- | coma music store, supplanted Pepper {in the affections of Miss Dorothy Dan- | hauser, to whom Pepper had paid at- tention for flve weeks. A week ago | neither does he. Every Suturday, with but one or two | exceptions, since Charlie has been in the deuth house at Sing Bing I have | johnson and his bride came here on gone there to see him. Last Saturday | iheir honeymoon trip. | he told me he felt confident that his | Papper followed and today he called conviction would be reversed and that | ;¢ Johnson's room. When Mrs. John- he would be granted a new trial. FHe ' gor opened the door in response to his has alwaye felt this would be the out- | knock. Pepper fired. As the woman come.” : | crumpled to the fioor, and while the In repiy to a question as to what she | husband_was rushing toward her as- believed to have been the cause Of gailant, Pepper shot himseif. Becker’s conviction, she =aid: “There was a hue and cry to ‘get’ someone for the murder of Rosenthal. “Peacock Lanes for Highbrows.” As far as my husband not being | ot 0 L 3% oF o fostered by many suffrage leaders who | re-iried for the crjme they alleged he | ..:-(,:\-.:(h 1'.'(“:idl\“n’: o oo Dbelieved that women shouid not for- i ; e ,_Joy g t ma nally coly 't s with | committed, I wish they would re-try | gyt or Representatt o mally ally themselves with any speci- | yq want him to be acquitted of Pl T, Shack fic party _hundreds from voting | L I of Missouri. Mr. Shac at_the primaries. Do ot go agists. An election clerk in one of the north side poiling places h one of the booths and smilir attention to it. “We want to make it home attractive for our women vote: observed. Steamers Reported by Wireless. Erow Head, Feb, 24—Steamer Prinz Triedrich Willielm, New York for Ply- nalled 250 miles seuthwest at 6 a. m. Due Plymeyth 3 & m, Wednesday, Steamer La Savole, New York for Havre, signalled 205 miles southwest at nocn, Due Havre ? p. m. Wednes- day, Lizazd, Feb. 24.—Steamer Oeeante, New York for Plymouth, Cherbourg and Seuthampton, signalied 280 miles west at noon. Due Plymouth § & m, Wednesda Halifax, . Feb. 24 —8ieamers Nvordam, H rdam; Deminion, Liv- srpook. to the polls and declare | suspiclon. He had absolutely hing to do with the idiling of Ros- eve: ! what he called the “edito not | factory” maintained by ; { enthal. He was the victim of a vile| tion’ fo promote the t i1 are a party woman. Keep | oolife o it Shoulas be prove i on away @ind bo independent on election | CqnEPiracy” and » vored, was_the slogan of the non-parti- | Soon after Becker was sent to the | | death house Mrs, Becker returned to, | the public school In Harlem, where she | had been before she married the po- [lice lieutenant. She has been teaching { there ever gince, idence against Becker wus i to warant his conviection, | pointed ont, however, that the testi- | meny against him was given-by wi nesses of low class, and as much of it sufficient was . was open to doubt he thereors was | THE COURT'S; FINDING. entitled to a fairer trial than he re | 3 s Have Fal . cetved SaciamaRint. Hve FJ" T'A",._J"' All of the seven members of the court tice Goff Erred in Many Rulings—/ ..pt judge Werner, who acted as presiding judge when the appeal was Gunmens' Conviction Affirmed. =S argued, concurred in the pr 2 Albany, tion of Charles Becker, a former New York police lieutenant, of the murder of Herman Resenthal, was reversed and the cemvietiong of the four gun- men for the same crime wers affirmed today by the ceurt eof appeals. Justice Goft, the eourt held, ered in many of his rulings at Becker's trial and appeared te be prejudicial in his attitude toward the defendant. Judge Hiscock. In a dissenting opi |ien Judge Werner said that the main ontentions of the state had been amp- | ly preven to warrant conviction. ‘The much-mooted question as to the status of Sam Schepps, who the jury in the Becker case decided was not an accomplice to the crime, still is unset- tled. The prevailing opinion merely -The | said that there was doubt in the minds reversal was based sclely on these Fof some of the members of the court srounds. Ne attempt was made by the s < Sourt to say whether (he weight of ev= (Continued om Rage Ten) characterized today as “peacock lunes | N, Y., Feb. 24—The convic_ | Becker opinion, whieh was written by | Albany is Threatened with a coal famine. It Was 34 Below Zero at Northfield, Vt., yesterday. The Campaign For Woman Suffrage in the state of Nevada was opened at Reno yesterday. The Rochester, Pa., High School building was destroyed by fire yester- day with a loss of $60,000. The Ohio Excise Tax on railroads was yesterday upheld as constitution- al by the supreme court. William O’Connor of Brooklyn is dying having taken bichloride of mer- cury. in mistake for headache tablets. A Fifteen Million_Dollar aeroplane fieet was proposed in-a bill yesterday by Representative L'Engle of Florida. John K. Norwood, widely known in insurance circles, died at his home, at Lawrence, Mass., yesterday, aged 76 years. The Safe in the Office of the Academy of Music in Baltimore was blown open and between $5,000 and $6,000 was stolen. i Mrs. Caroline Updike, 75, was burned to death in a fire that destroyed her home at Fayette, N. Y., during Mon- day night. President Wilson vesterday signed a bill limiting the hours of labor of wo- men in the District of, Columbia to eight hours. Ice Conditions in Long Island sound are such‘at present that tugs with | tows of coal barges have difficulty in getting through to ports. The Directors of the Calumet and Hecla Mining company reduced the quarterly dividend rate from $6, paid three months ago, to 3$5. Thomas W. Cridler, third assistant secretary of state under the McKinley administration, died suddenly at his | home in New York of heart disease. The Naval Transport Prairie will sail for Mexican waters with 300 marines after visiting Pensacola, following her departure from Mobile, Ala., today. The Colored Wig Fad has Struck Washington, a wig maker having re- ceived an order for a green tupee, t0 be worn at a fancy dress ball. Mayor John A. Denison of Spring- fieid, Mass., announced yesterday that | he will issue no more licenses for Sun- day moving picture shows after April Having Only a Few Hours to _live, Howard Schemely, 28 years old, of Camden, N. J., was married to Miss May Connelly, his sweetheart for 13 years. An Increase of Four Percent in York eity over the previous vear crganization societ; A Sprint for a Train at the Trinity Place station in Boston _ yesterday caused the death of James Frank Hill, of Stoughton, Mass. He died soon after taking his seat. The Tax on the Use of foreign buflt | yachts imposed upon American citi- zens by the old Payne-Aldrich tariff act was upheld as constitutional yess terday by the supreme court. Major General Joshua L. Chamber- lain, one of the best known officers of the Civil war, an ex-governor of Maine and former president of Bowdoin col- lege, died yesterday in Portland, Me. Frank Hennessey and Angelina Mar- cotte, arrested on the charge of im- improper tango dancing, were before the Lowell police court Tuesday. Their cases were continued untfl March 14. Dr. Frank Atwood of New Haven, filed with Gov. Baldwin vesterday a petition that the law be so construed that the state should condemn and pay for cases of occult glanders in horses. | The Fifth Case of smallpox in Mid- { dletown was discovered yesterday when William S. Kennelly, a car- place of business suffering from the disease. vesterday of being an accessory after the fact to the murder of = Mary | Phagan. He was sentenced to' twelve months in a convict gang. The Constitutionality of the federal white slave law was again upheld yes- terday by the supreme court in the Wilson cases from Chicago. The point whether the law is limited to commer- cial vice was not involved. Official Count treasury officials yesterday showed 7,465 national banks have applied for membership in the federal reserve system, that 18 banks have notified the organization commit,_ tee that they will not apply. Search by the Canadian Government | ice breaker Stanley and the govern- | ment steamer Lady Laurier has brought no word of the collier Langan of the Dominion Coal company, which was due at Louisburg last Thursday. Three Firemen We; temporarily | overcome by smoke and another was | sligh niured by a falling wall be- fore the fire in the Galt Block ware- | house on Commercial street, Portland, ine, was placed under control early yesterday. Two Men Were Killed, ten others hud narrow pes and several fire- men were siightiy hurt yesterday in a | fire that swept through the four story Bak: hotel, occupied. chiefly by nth street and First av- Out of the 225000 Coal Miners in the coal fields of Southern France, 40,000 have struck in response to the call of their leader for a general str 8 protest against the elimination by | senate of sume clauses of the | Ereund workers' pension 'bill. Mayor James M. Curley of Boston, announced yesterday his from congre: He said he took step as a result of the action of Mi- | nority Leader James R. Mann, who in- | troduced a resolution in congress pro- posing that Mr. Curley’s seat be de- clared vacant. \ Dead Woman an Accomplished Singer. Tacoma, Washn., Feb. 24.—Dorothy Danhauser Johnson, kifled in San Francisco today, was prominent in northwestern society and musical cir- | cles. She was a singer of ability, Her | uncie, Herman Kiober, was drowned on the Titanic. His will left her a for- tune to flowfllm Condensed Telegrams |The Sgizure of the | number of dependent families in New | is | shown in the 1913 report of the charity riage manufacturer, was found at his | James Conley, Negro Factory sweep- | er, was found guilty at Atlanta, Ga., ! resignation | Private Papers IMPORTANT DECISION BY THE SUPREME COUART. HANDICAP TO JUSTICE Restricts Conditions Under Which Papers May Be Taken to Be Used as Evidence Against Defendants. ‘Washington, Feb. 24.—Criminal pros- ecutions in tiie United States may be revolutionized by a decision today of | the supreme court restricting the con- ’dluon.s under which prosecuting offi- clais may seize papers belonging to i persons accused of crime. The imme- diate result of the decislon was that Fremont Weeks, an express messenger at Kansas City. Mo, will be given & new trial on a charge of using the maiis to further an alleged lottery scneme. May Affect Dynamiters’ Case. The point that the government im- properly seized papers in the dynamit- ers’ case against Frank M. Ryan and other bridge union officials in a raid in { Indianapolis has been raised, and the | decision today may enter into that prosecution if a new trial is granted as sought in an application for review filed today with the supreme court. Weeks was arrested at a railroad station by one group of policemen while another zearched his house. Af- ter his arrest the United States mar- shal entered his house and procured over six hundred letters which were used against the prisoner when he was placed on trial. No search warrant had been issued. Constitutional Rights Invaded. i Justice Day in announcing the court's unanimous decision held that Weeks constitntional guarantes against unreasonable search had been violated. “If jetters and private caa thus be seized an in evidence agai of an offense,” documents held and used st a citizen accused said Justice Day, “the protection of the fourth amendment, declaring his right to Dbe secure against such searches and seizures, is of no value, and so far as those thus placed are concerned might as well be strucken from the constitution. The effuris of the courts and other officials to bring the gu to punishment, praiseworthy they are, are not to be aided by the sacrifice of those great principles established by years of en- deavor and suffering. which have re- sulted 1n their embodiment in the fun- damental law of the land.” Can Demand Return of Papars. Since 1904 the courts of the country have restricted prosecuting officials lit- tie in presenting in evidence secured by searching houses without search warrants. It was in that year | that the supreme court, in the case of { Al Adams, the “policy king” of New | York, laid down the principle that a | trial ‘court wonid not stop in the midst of a trial to question a witness as to how he had obtained possession of pa- pers, but would admit the papers into evidence no malter how possession was obtained. Justice D: as | v said today that a de- i prevent papers illegally | d against him by go- ing into cour: before the trial and de- | manding the return of the papers. This | was done by Weeks’ lawyers, but the { frial court refused to grant demand on | authority of the Adams case. | AGED SOCIAL LEADER ESCAPES JAIL TERM. Pleads Guilty to Contributing to Young Girl's Delinquency. Cincinnati, O., Feb. 24. Colonel Brent Arnold, general freight agent {'and superintendent of terminals of the | Loutsville and Nashville railroad, | prominent clubman and social leader {of this city, was arrested here today, | charged with contributing to the de- { linquency of a 16 year old girl, Mil- dred Crane. He pleaded guiity and was fined $750 in the municipal court. In passing sentence on Colonel Arnold the court said it would not impose a jail sentence owing to the advanced years of the defendant. Colonel Ar- nold 68 years old. “Bleached Flour” is Legal. Washington, Feb. 24.—DMillers and food manufacturers generally through- out the country won a decisive vic- tory over the government today when the supreme court held that federal inspectors could not condemn under the pure food law “bleached flour” un- less they proved that the flour com- tained enough poisonous ingredients added in bleaching to make the flowr injurious to health. Pilot for Transatlantic Airshi New York, Feb. 24.—Lieutenant Joha C. Porte of royal naval flying corps of Great Britain will be the first pilot of the proposed transatlantic airship Lo be financed by Rodman Wanamaker. This announcement was made here to- day after Lieutenant Porte, who ar- rived here today from abroad, had held a conference with officials of the Aero club of America. Seaman Dishonorably Discharges. Hartford > General ( tence of a sum- ster B. Gracie, aval militia (at New Haven), is norably discharged | from the naval service of the state, to | date Dec 9 Manslaughter Charge Nolled. New Haven, Conn., Feb. 24.—Assist- ant State’s Attorney Walter Picket in the superior court today nolled the case against Thomas Stone, Jr. of | Waliingford, who was charged with | manslaughter connection with the death of William McNnity of Wallin, last December in an automebiis ion. Te Fix Date for Hassett's Trial. New York, Feb. 24—After overrui- ing a demurrer filed by Thomas Has- sett, indicted as a result of information placed before the grand jury by Dis trict Attorney Charles S Whitman. Supreme Court Justice Vernon M. Da- vis. today announced that on March 5 a date would be set for Hassett's trial. The industry eof unnl.n&’?uflm. known in the market as lobster, which began in the ity of Cape Town a fetv years sines in a small way, has gradi growa in fmportance until the output for the geason just closed aggregated nearly 90,000 cases i