The evening world. Newspaper, July 11, 1901, Page 1

“Circulation Books Open to All.’’ PRICE ONE CENT. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1901. 2 P RICE ONE CE NT. COLUMBIA WINS CLOSE. _ RACE FROM NEW YACHT “LT KILLED PRICE,” p= M’DONNELL SAID. SEER aoe d - In an Impressive and Quietly Dramatic Way the BROOK vy We Gambler Tells His Own Story of the Tragedy b nett i BROOKLYN. in the Onawa Cafe. Bao is ——+00+- Despised Independence Furnishes Surprise and Is a Close Third---Race Is Sailed in Fog — and Strong Breeze. A DIL BATEMANS POINT, July 11—Co-/it wan impossible to determine from] the line, the Constitution beng on the N 1 x yacht|here which made the mark frat. There|Columbia'y weather quarter, Immedl- me LY AI nton's Reet|aPmrently wan not ten seconds differ-| ately after crossing the eC ‘onsfftution. ence betwagn them. ‘The turn wns made| tacked to port, all the ynctita baring at about 2.57, The Conatitution at that | crossed on the starboard tack and sti for the Narragansett shore. The Inde- pendence, however, held on a little longer before she followed the other two. to | eime had settled down on the run home ee, | before a fourteen-knot breeze, Just after the boats had turned the fog shut in and hid them from view. Myles McDonnell, the gambler, om | could tow your insites out now.’ I)ed it toward me. 1 raised my gun, too, yA tPilisuu g—Bosion, 0: Piltsburg, 5: mew) PATEMAN'S POINT, R. I, July 11.— Hoston Hoat Split Tacks. trial for killing George Price in the The Herresho® boats made a long Onawa Cafe, went on the stand this 2 y and it aaid: ‘You'd better not try it. Two can simediasthim ‘aghot to kil, | When Play at tho same game.’ “Now, Mr. MaDonnell, you are a bet- Ae shot at Pi Price 1 had ‘as econ as I let 7 ti—-Philadetphia, OF Chics ++ ven minates sepa- The yachts started down the harbor at about 11.3 o'clock. The Conatitution board ty the Narraganeett shore, Sut Independence. before heading after ter lawyer for youresif we can be. &. ; MERI { rnted}ihe/(hrce/ toa the Aptem. | way the frat out. She wan followed by} them, mule a short tack to starboard. afternoon, and {n/a manner at tne | ia... citi the] Court and\or what hap- me] Beech eave hace: AMERICAN LEAGUE GAMES. Comatitniion and Colombie bad| the Columbia about five’ minutes later | ‘The Boston boat started’ the race with- : ue calm and delfberate and again indica-!pened on the night ef the shooting at |, "1 shot five times and Kennedy fret been alternating im the lead, and by the Independence a few minutes | out her jib topaall and during the frat. tive of suppressed flercenees told the |the Onana Cate, without any leading | shots fired, by Price at me. [think he At Boston—-Philaduipma, 12 Boctom 4. Game called. Jat ttmes the Boston buat waa ee|Dehind the Columbia. Each of the boats| naif hour seemed to point considerably 7 * from me,’ said Mr. Levy. four shots. in 1 ye fel ereiy® me thy 1 he ny was under ow salls and each carried 4| higher than at any time since she began eed story of the shooting and what led up |" or. atcDonnall told of the events pre | "i know ‘rice, wanted to kill me. 1 —End o! third—Baltimore. 6; W close that she was thoeght to bel ii cuptoosall. to_race a was more afraid of him t ence hela hac torts ae akead of the two Herrenho® Ayers.) rye warning signal wax given at 1215] The Indepen ceding the time when Kennedy and his in. Kenny anted to: kill nd of thi Chicago, 2; Mil tote friendw came into the saloon. wet ce eeaeT new he WS le cate ure 6 MLD ull A good part of the race was|and the preparatory slenal at 1220, at} Nell into the Narragadsett ahore” and RED Care he Wis Stery of the Shoet Didn't Sheet Courtney. At Cleveland—fnd ot third—Detroit, 1; Clevelanc salled In a thick fom, amd the | that time the wind wax from the south: | Sut on the starboard tack. Much to the the ordeal. There was no trace of] ., co 5 SST = fy [Routhweat, blowing « good wmart elght | surprize of chore at this point it seemed ¢ Price said he wanted to see ax. 1] “is tt try breese at tImen rose to a atrensth | vrs, un hour, oat Une ther twoabontart ands eects i agitation about btm as he seated bien-|eaid “Ali right.’ He wanted me to. 60 imed” and: ahot at Hla again ‘asked of fourteen knots, Junt before the start the two Herres- | Gfattayed berter qualities In Bolng to tire self.in the witness chair. He bowed |!"t0 the lavatory. I sald ‘No, I won't iar, De! nation C0 ees ho eee et hoft boats headed down from the sind-| windward +! he has. been racing. . - : joe tn there with you. If you want to| | VNo, It ip pot, At nO Um not Coure: ward, being in the same position as her this waa due to the absence of pouitiga whivre 1 could’ have snot Coure: RRIGHTON BEACH WINNGRS, 7 / three minety-fonters ever seen ee ee een The'baby Jibtapaatl of courme Could not y It right out on came up onthe claimed with any certainty. BLOCK ISLAND, It. 6, July 1-3 P.| the line with a good full, going very | Srhe wind, how was a fine eight re M.—The Constitution turned the wind-| fast, and appeared to allp in ahead of or nine knot tke Ere \ respectfully astice Fursman end jeay anything to me, ney whe waere he was shot.” witness who has testified the outside,’ has received a gractous bow in return. As n Hes ‘Well, you see Kennedy before you | sworn. gen he dia, not see jyourhave, pipistol nt 1. Tinge 2. B The story of his past life was| qo,’ said Price. whl Sixt a the two Herreshofft yachts. touched briefly. MoDoanell told] “!_went over to Kennedy. Tue they didn't see my platol. I e+e — ward mark ahead of Columb, having |‘ pee teat nae As held Invho: er and then put jouched upon. 2 ‘Tom,’ I sald, ‘Price says 1 must see | held tt close to me at Arete puared the old champion by a remark- w b ‘She met one of “You are @ure of the time when he first became a gambler and of his business relations with Tom Kennedy, once his friend, now his archenemy. Keanedy, he s; ., tind once aald he would kill him, and he had replied? ‘Two can play at that game.” Then he was led up ¢o the night of the tragedy in the cafe. His atory of what happened was listened to with ' preathleas interest in the court-room. ; Mrs, McDonnell, nervous and pale, Bung on his every word. McDonnell all through his testi- | mony was frankness itself. He ad- ; mitted shooting Price, but said he | id so only after Price had shot at | aim. His tale impressed the jury- { gen, and it seemed plain to those in ' the court-room that if the case went to their hands they would acquit the prisoner. McDonnell left the stand at 3.45 clock and court adjourned until to- MeD At 245 o'clock McDonnell took the witness stand. He bowed to the Judge. juted the witness courteously, ‘ McDonnell's examination waz delayed to allow Justice Fursman to go to his private chambers again. ‘When the jurymen saw the Judge go eut, they asked permiesion to take a breathing space and filed out in good erder. The jurymen came back in three minutes, but it was seven minutes be- fore Justice Fursman came back. you before I go out. What te it? “You know — well what it he, “ ‘I don’t know,’ I said, ‘unless it's the same old thing. " Mow, Tom,’ I sald, -‘some one's been telling you wrong things. I've heard a Jot about what you've been aaying you would do to me. “Now, Tom, what's the use, we ought to be mood friends.’ Then I turned to the.crowd and said: ‘Somebody's been carrying tales about mi Now if any one has @ot anything to say bet fim say it now. “What are you potmting et me for?’ spoke up Piser. “ "It goes for everybody,’ eat I. “You said I cheated at cards,’ said Piser. “That's true,’ said I, ‘and now you're trying to get your friends to Mght your battles for you.’ “Net Afraid of Your Gang.” ‘Then I turned to Kennedy and said, ‘Tom, I'm not afraid of your gang, but I am afratd of that littl thing you've got in your pooket. I know you've ot it, but dont pul A “'Well, if that's #0,’ sala Kennedy, ‘here goes,’ and he pulled his gun and sald, ‘Mac, I've got you cinched!’ “I grabbed his hand. I pulled my gun and placed the mussle to Kennedy's heart and said: ‘Tom, I've got you ite and faindy Td shoot neuer YOUr Spared Kennedy. “But I didn’t. Suddenly Ke dy BE pamac HLdi ei caned I lowered ron in and fired mat ene Noor, “ran » thinks: Gf Inking to keep Pri away. Ag Na ‘80 Kennedy went toward the door, He raised his pirtol and point- * said dd not. I could not frqm where I was and where he was wounded.” tanot. yee. that yoy are an expert 0 tp leVSe shot # pistol more than ten ee before the night of this trouble wie Kennedy’ ‘Have vou not often in, saloons shot at objects through your pocket to the accuracy of your atm?" hot through my pocket in “Im it not a fact that you a Thomas Walsh two years ago off fe car with a knife’ “Tr did!’ exclaimed MoDonnell tae you assault David Blackwell ah instrument and take from “In it not a fact that vou assaulted unknown man in a saloon at One Hundred and Twenty-recond mreet by etriking him over the head with a oy ‘iimh ‘ou'd get some one t me fof there things,” maid MeDon. #3 “Absolttely no. I never assaulted a man in my life unless he firat assaulted me." Inetrates Shooting. “Now, Mr. McDonnell, 1 want you to tell how you fired the four shots you may you did,’ McDonnell got up and Murtrated, “The firat shot I fired at Price's leg behind me. 1 knew he was there, be: pulling my arm down “The se ot I fired at Kennedy's leg, 1 don't, mehink it it him. “rhe third shot I fired at Price again. “The fourth shot T aimed at Ken: ‘3 hea 1d you ellove there threats you had heard were going to be carried out by Kegnedy ? “No, not by Kennedy, but I thought Larry Burke might s shoot me at any (Continued on Second Page.) Rolling Boer 2. Speific HICH MANS ESTATE able burst of apeed. The Conatitution turned at 2.52, urht from shore. Apparently the yachts caught an in- creasing breege, which the Constitution and Independence felt first, for as the new Herreshoff boat passed the Colum- bin the Independence came tearing along and closed np, Columbla and the Inde- pendence turned a0 clonely together that Before the Columbia and Constitution could Ket any move the Boston boat war well up to the Ine, but being alittle ahead of time Capt, Haff had to run her along until the starting signal was kiven. The Independence seemed. to have croned a Mttle ahend of the other two yacht Hoth t Columbia and Constitution 1 the port. tack, but: {the Constitution oF Cos ula the observers'on the polnt could not agree, ft certainky appeared ax ane forced one. of, tion Herreshote é men on the paint it made little differance, whether. natttution oF the Golumbla. rte in ‘the Tace up to that® mitted ontirely: Inthe. mate ux Improvement shown by the Bos were well wg on the windward end of’ ton yacht 5 opposed in the Brookly rett Warner and Georr {the estate and perse WILDER COT ne in 1093. He reening his wife and tar Justice Hooker rest =o) = 5 ‘ al THE UNION MUST BE RECOGNIZED. President Shaffer and Lieutenants Firm in De-|:iowr ne started on a dead run for a fre. mand at Conference with Stee! Magnates. (Special to The Evening World.) Secretary-| for the PITISHUKG, Pa, a july 11—Preat- ata di Tighe; Business Man- THERE FIRST. Humorist and Fat Po- liceman in Race to Give Fire-Alarm. A heavy explosion in the fashtorable apirtment-house Crole sixth street, thin after. pod Strolling by at that time was Marshall Po Wilder, the humoriat, Aw the alilte smoke puffed out of the wine alarm box, | A the same van, of the Wei ton, who In very fat, commenced lop box. In the mean t hundreds of people had gat NINE KILLED IN TRAIN WRECK. Bridge Collapses Car- rying Freight Train and Crew. SPRINGFIELD, Pa., July 11.—A at Fitth ave-| tocal freight train went through the | ol, of bridge, which collapsed from the yoone tn that nelath- weight of the train, carrying with It | the entire train, with crew and gang) 5 jot workmen. Nine are reported killed. P. A. Moore, conductor, of Con-1 neant, O., and William Griffith, en- wineer, of Buffalo, were instantly killed. When the locomotive and cars went jan laborers work- CAT CAUSED BIC RUMPUS: Humane Swede Got i in * Trouble on the Elevated. John John: a Swede, forty years So, 152 Van Brunt street, Brook- lyn, was arratsned in the Yorkville Court ti harged with disorderly paduct s x small riot on a train Inst night, Up the steps of the pet at Firm avenue and Mtoe At the t) he cou Johnson ¢ chops the © cat on the train, Way past the Usket af the excitement, Wilder had! down a gang of Ita tin Metle pert ike the ug. and he resembied the {the boy In the seven McDonnell looked stern and deter- reat dene J.T. sh et thetAma inti i, Davin mined in the witness cnair, His teeth cunated Acectation ben heem|_ftistecs-John Plerce, Pi.taburg. Eli ‘Wore hard set and his square jaws gave ee Zenkins, Youngstown, O.; J. 1. Morsan, | yy, {hls face a look of bulldog obstinacy. l H U N D ERS T O R M chonen Chatrman of the Joint Con-|Cambriige, 0 meats ae Mrs, McDonnell Nervous. ference: Rees Pittabur 5 Wal- the RA AN SES, ing beneath the bridge were caught | «: in the wreck. At least seven of the Italians were instantly killed and a 4 ‘The Amalgamated conferrees et-|ter Larkin, Mar Thid aris fe = SRT Mra McDonnell was plainly nervous, eee eet peeet ata oleteoaia Dini Charles sirure | Biote of the giant tn the fates weit | number of others badly injured, Ghe fidgeted in her cha!r and fanned na Fiten Dietrist, Gum Jarvis, Ander: | lon tod on her nein —— Berself nervously, all the time watohing = Fotingntinny Ou Betenth “Dintict, de] yelled the fat policeman as he putted | 9 er husband like a hawk. Never once 0 he labor leaders adhere to Tolieti istrmingham,. Alcs & unthg yedkthel spe ntecaye rice VICTIM OF HEAT. Vilder got to the box frst am | ea nto force recom- Pintrict | John Gd her oyes leave his face. thelr determi McDonnell spoke collectedly and well. CES ers Mie cower od could cazily be neara t| Western Hot Wave May Get Here Within Forty-| 100,000 men on eight Hours. him, but he climbed up the the bell Just ax the! Selle, W too high f Granite City, 11. the greatent Loree te being uvbserved, | POSE and pu [che reams tn which the nnference is te | policeman came uv atated that eld ure on the second floor of the department soon r ee on oftered | Hotel Lincoln, and newspaper men. have PRET a foren been requested to remain downstairs. WOU any} wamated senle for! It ts intimated that a concession will WON RISE) be allowed the manufacturers in the » etand | quae woe wNt. a baker, vt man! w every man on the jury. i ®@ McDonnell began by telling a short Qistory of his life. He said that he was +. Rteh- HEAT EXPLOD ES NYNAMITE. born in Arslan: wane eon . x mnUleRthat have’ Sgreements with thetr SOT ‘As he began to speak Mra, McDonnell 6 ade previous to lant year's. Wage en] , reoverad ter tuce with her tan? closed har Pe Neon eee Bheao mille tt ie ead. will in RULE IRS Ie HIE AtaaE Many eyes and her lps moved in prayer. 72 degree temperature to-day, and Fore- McDonnell told of his career in sev-|caster Emery promised thund eral business schemes. They were ail|ning and rain for this commercial enterprises. partly cloudy skies and variable winds “When did you become engaged tn | for to-morrow. the gambling business?’ asked Lawyer| He reported, however, that while the morning ambulance then aw mig After that time these mills a! come under the Jurindle Amalgamated Association, the men become membern rs clath jon of the Tt was 10.28 o'clock A. 3M. when the | Giation Rareement the expiration nth steel ocnference opened. The combine a Long Wi and Leechburg sheet Fite! Levy. temperatures have lowered a little in onferreea present at that time were: Ar AB known ENT Saul “About March, , 1896." the upper lake regions the mercury has fey, The Warner Arme. Vcle-President of the SMtundeeith UTICA, NOY. July i —Rva Lone the: an reemettn with e work-| widow of J and It ts evenings Fri- American Tin Plate Company; Beryl ae ee acc lirel DETECTIVE SERGEANTS, 9. “When did you mect Tom Kennedy? | sone up in the Obio Valle: 1 eae mille antedate the. them “about 1898, I think.” probable that the western hot wave will Prenton, of the American Steel Hoop] ilon of the sheet steel oma js sipdiel é Kennedy Threatened His Life, |croes the Alleghentes and descend upon Compuny. and William Leeds, of the| mained in force when the: isn ton HARRY MANA DEAD. “Prior 10 December, 1900, had you eny| {Mie town within the next forty-elght difficulties with Tom Kennedy" There are two straws of hope, how- a “Yes, several at different times. One| ever, the ffret being in a storm raging)| Humidity was high int carly hours | mittee, the highest body in the asso- } was two months before tho shooting. It}on the Carolina coast, which may meet |to-dey, and the alr was heavy ard ciation. It !s composed of the national happened at the corner of One Hundred| the hot wave hereahoute and dissipate | SUS8)- Clouds bia the sun and Kept cmeers and the vice-presidents of thé and Fifty-fourth street and Third ave-|it. The other is that the hot spell te/ the temperature witnin the bounds of | isterent districts, ‘American Sheet Stlee Company. ‘The workers’ organtsation was repre- sented by the General Executive Com- sud’) EMS was read Theee to y reference wax ma was then In Enmglan, er Thea vehe stare! go davch of the Urned here at once aeomutelccastin se detective ind this the sec- ond time in the history of the assocta- sue E not Iikely to last long in any. event, a Did Kennedy threaten your dite” _| the indications from the West aré that ae teen eae Tears OL] tion that Ithad been’ called together, ER eu ae anette lat “He did. He sald: 'Xou————=, £! it will net be of long duration, Bo heat at ‘Noe is ‘Wwavertty p place. ments for sale in the Sunday World. foads gen ny much older men, The megbers of the Committee are: