The evening world. Newspaper, October 16, 1901, Page 1

— 642% eolumns of advertising printed in The: World last week. Gain, I 18% ‘4 __ PRICE ONE CENT. week of columns over the same last yéar. be “ Circulation Books Open to All,” MOLIN X ASKS FOR NEW TRIAL. (Special to The Evening World) SING SING, Oct. 16.—“I would not walk out of prison on bail. I don't want to breathe the free air until I am a free man. “IT want to be acquitted of this crime, and until I am, I would rather stay in this death-house than go among my friends with the slightest suspicion of gullt hanging over me. “I expect to be tried again. I want to be tried again. “I want to remove the stain from the name of Molineux and rehabili- tate the family home.” Roland B. Molineux, with these ringing words, startled State Treas- urer Jaeckel and Lispenard Stewart, President of the State Prison Asso- clation, when they visited him in his cell at Sing Sing Prison this after- noon. Messrs. Stewart and Jaeckel are sit- ting on the Parole Board, now In ses- sion at the prison. They called on Molineux to congratulate him oa the Prisoner's Lawyers Ex- pect to Get Him Out of Sing Sing To-Day, as Soonas Necessary Papers Can Be Ob. tained. Gen. Molineux Says He Knows the Real Poisoner and That the Efforts of Himself and His Son Will Be Their Name. Roland B. Molineux will insist that he be tried again in order that his name may be cleared from all outcome of his appeal. After the visit both gentlemen told The Evening World cbrrespondent of their inter- view with the prisoner. {Discassed Decision Calmly. “I found Molineux very pale,” said Mr. Stewart. ‘He showed plainly the effects of his long confinement. His manner, though, was altogether (*/. ferent from what I had anticipated. “There was nothing of elation in iis tone, nothing that savored of suspicion. To-day in his first interview since a new trial was granted he declared he would not leave prison on bail, the poisoner of Mrs, Adams was and says he hopes soon to point him out publicly. Molincux’s lawyers are confident that he can never again be convicted, excitement. In the most calm, ra- tional, matter of fact way he dis- cussed the ruling of the Court of Appeals with us. “He satd he had anticipated it. For several days he had felt quite assured from what he knew that the decision was In his favor, and what Warden Johnson told bim yesterday after- They exnect to get the necessary papers to bring him from Sing Sing to-morrow, Devoted to Clearing! ; His father deckares he knows who| % ricleleieicieiestet theeetdetetes = GEN. MOLINEUX SAYS HE KNOWS THE POISONER. By Gen. E. L. Molineux. “I know that my son {s {n- nocent an@ also who the guilty one is. “I hope scon to be able to it him out publicly. “I will devete my Hfe to voving the innocence of Ko v- “In fact T can neither set sick nor dic until this has Ueen established beyond all doubt. Roland and TI will clear the name of Molineux from the stain upon it. “The name Is an honorable one, and we will spend the rest of our lives to prove that he is innocent. “You cannot doubt that I am a brave man, and do you think I am afraid to die? No. Nor Is my boy. “He has been both brave and patient in all this trouble. At the prison he has been most patient and has been treated with all the consideration that the rules would permit.” cation for ball being made to the Su- preme Court that he showed any trace of feeling. “Then his head was thrown back noon was simply pleasant confirma- tion of his expectations. “It was only when Mr. Jaeckel spoke of the possibility of an appll- and in tones that rang with quiet de- termination, he vowed he would not walk out of prison until a fair. trial (Continued on Fourth Page.) MYSTERY! WHERE’S DEVERY? | E BEEN KIDNAPPED? HAS H Interest In the election ts eclipsed. What cares New York about Low or Shepard or Crokep or anybody else when Devery 1s missing? The Loud, Walling Sound you hear !s Voice of the People. The Voice Is asking: “WHERE 18 DEVERY?" Not since last Thursday, when he sat in judgment on offending bluecoats, hax he been seen at Police Headquarters On previous Thursdiy's (to the extent of | two) he has been mild and gracious. Last Thursday he was pugnacious and fretful. He acted ike a man with a load mind or a man who anticipat When he went forth from headquar- ters that fateful afternoon mystery swallowed him. He hasn't been def- nitely seen eince, though rumor has taken a strange hold of his name. We hear that he Is in Jersey City throwing away his hard earned money in the street to see newsboys and cab- men scramble and fight for It. It in dented by hls friends. They say he !* not In the habit of giving away money —hence it could not have been Devery. Vague reports reach us that he has n sven In Harlem, putting the very electris Hghts to shame by the splendor of his ralment—"and things.” Faithful young men have been sent to Harlem 10 tind him, All they could find was a wide xpoor that looked llke the spoor of Devers. } “Has Devery been here?" the young men asked at various places in Harte where the Big Chief was known wh he was Captain In West-One Hundred and Twenty-Afth street. Unanimously the men behind the replied: “We ain't sean hig.” Murmure from the Tenderloin tell of his presence in the region of tlumina- BANK BURGLARS SHOT. Three Badly Wounded tn Fight With Citizens, EVANSVILLE, Ind., Oct. 16—A loud explosion arouse! the village of Howell a few miles from here, early to-day and turning out the citizens discovered that four robbers had blown the bank safe and were in the act of plundering it Instantly the bank was surrounded and the citizens opened fire, which was re- | turned by the robbers us they fed. When the fusilude ended three rob- vers, badly wound®d, were stretched out on the ground. he fourth had es- caped, Marshall Sumpter was shot in the leg. The wounded robbers are the hospital. They refuse to talk. ———__- ‘TIS HARD to tell bar Piatol in this small @pace ‘ This mighty truth we would con- vey: THE WORLD In New York sts the pace By TENS OF THOUSANDS EV- WRY DAY! Big Chief erat Been at Headquarters for a Week and the Voice of the People Is Loud in Its Lamentation— Grotesque Rumors Afloat. Hon and lobsters—human and otherwise. rily rellable Information purpor- een to reveal that he had been leading a prayer meeting in the Cre- morne Mission. More dentals followed the running down of this report. Rumor had It that he had been seen Jate at night walking with dignified mien on the shadow of an electric Nght pole at Elghth avenue and Twenty: ninth street, Rellable investigators sent to Investigate the rumor reported found the pole. was a fearsome last alght to the effect that he had been Kidnapped by the Bulgarian Mutual Begent Association, and betng held for ransom In a deep cave near the corner of Washington and ° Rector streets. Strenuous efforta have been made to find the cave, thus far without success. An Evening ‘orld reporter went to the home of the Chief this morning to inquire about him. From the steps of the house could be scen the new red paint on the elevated structure In Ninth avenue, glistening glociously in the’ norning sun, Traces of red paint were visible on other structures in the nelgh. borhood. “Mr. Devery left the house ten min- utes ago,"-the reporter was told. “He has gone to Police Headquarters.” ry current TYPHOON As quickly as trolley cars could carry him the reporter went to Police Head- quarters. The Chief was not there. Come missioner Murphy was there. “Do you! indorse the continued ab- sence of Chief Devery?"" he was aaked. “Devery is home sick,", replied the Commissioner. “He has pleurtsy on the laa Which side?" asked the reporter. “I refuse to be interviewed,” was the response of the commissioner, The Interest of the People in the Whereabouts of Devery at this time te not Idle curiosity. When he disappeared last’ summer and was dixcovered in Saratoga, smiting the bookmakers hip sud thigh, jt was none of the business of the public. He was on hin vacation fe Is not on a vacation now. He has | no leave of abs Instead of attend: | Hg to the pubic business he ts working Dame Rumor overtime. Hence the Interest of the People. CHANCE FOR DEVERY. Might Retire on Pen Supreme Court D. A cha r Deputy sloner Devery to retire on a penston may he prevented by the 1 of the Supreme Court/In Bropkiyn In the case ut John O'Connell mnell became a policeman when the jaw provided that he might be re- tired on a pension at the end of twenty years’ service. He was retired to-day under that decialon, although the char: ter of the greater city puts the limit at y-five years and at aixty-flve years Under ston, Police a t Commis- a out of tstil clagma ught that he may now Aton a pen= atn. Commiss' Murphy could retire him, and let’ the question be fought out in, th taking the ground that’ he became a policeman unler the od twenty-year, KILLS IN PHILIPPINES. Many Victims and Much Damage at Manila, and General Wreck in Islands. MANILA, Oot, 16.-A typhuon has Just swept over this city and Is raging gener- ally in the Philippines. It is the worst expertenced In twents yeurs, Much damage was done to the smaller shipping here and many natives lost thelr Hyves, The town of Baler has been des- troyed. ao A way Ww win Is to get on the inside | track. Sunday World Wants hold| that position and pi abare it site eats The storm centre Is about sixty miles but the fury of the tem- ely felt here. road hus been de- stroyed and half of north and central Luzon has been submerged. Most of the telegraph lines have been Jamaged and Government and other veszels have suffered. from thls elty, YOU CAN QUICKLY FIND SOME- body to buy your camera or todak if you advertise it in. the Sunday World. _-—- Scalia, BN NPs “ Circulation Books Open to All.” | RACING # SPORTS 21,625 advertisements printed in The World last week, A over the same Cain 2,48 week of last ye3t— —— | NEW ‘YORK, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16 1901. PRICE ONE COE CEN’ CARNEGIE IN ( CAMPAIGN; _ TAMMANY CRY FORGER POLICE TELEGRAPHERS WIN BIG VICTORY OVER THE CITY the city in the courts for their rights under the Charter sinc . it went into effect on Jan. 1, 1898, have won out. « The six operators in Manhattan. who have been getting $1,500, and the seven in Brooklyn, who have been paid $1,850 a year, will from to- day on receive $2,000 a'year and all the afternoon after receiving an opinion from Corporation Counsel Whalen. -$o———______ EPISCOPALIANS NOT TO CHANGE NAME. SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 16.—The whole subject of change in the name of the church as it appears on the title page of the Episcopalian prayer-book was once relegated to the future by being remanded to the next convention. The House of Biggops concurred in the resolution adopted by the House of Deputies providing for the appointment of a joint commission to confer with religious societies on the subject of uniformity on marriage and divorce, and a committee was appointed to report to the next General Convention, sfn GO8U"S _ OHO “TRUCK: DRIVER HAS NARROW ESCAPE, ’ A team’ané truck owrted’ by Holbrook, Cabob & Daly, of No. 44 Union Square, fell into the river at the foot of East Tweniy-first stceet to-day. Jolin Wilson, of No. 511 West Fifty-ninth street, rescued the driver. Peter Stud, of No. 219 Avenue A. The team was drowned. eee * LATE RESULTS AT WORTH. Fifth Race—Benckout 1. Tammany Chief 2, Valdez Sixth Race—Lord Roberts 1, Evelyn Byrd 2, Cathedral 3. eee : AT ST. LOouIs. Fourth Race—Efhylene 1, Jordan 2, Colonial Girl 3. Fifth Race—Petit Maitre 1. South Breeze 2, Picador 3. DRESSED IN STRIKE ON BEST 10 OIE. AT SINGERS. Abelman Arranged Flowers| 150 Eales: at Sewing Around His Head and Machine Works Out Turned on Gas. This Afternoon. Carefully dressed-in his vest clothes, ! Because Foreman Henry Cox, of the with hin wife's potted plants arranged | | eae bout his head, Hrnest Abelman, a rea-| C2embling department of the Sinyer taurant keeper, turned on all the gas| Sewing Machloe Works, at Elizabeth- Jets In his home at 7% Prompect| port, N. J., refused to discharge a non- place, Brooklyn, to-day, and lay down! union hand this afteruoun 1) union on a couch to dle, The janitor of the house, however, smelled the gasyand Abelman is now recovering in Seney Hospital, Abelman has a restaurant at 8t. John's place and Rogers avenue, He sent his wife to open the lace this morning, telling her he wanted a bit more sleep and “would ‘follow her later. workers walked out of the bullding. There are over six hundred persons employed at the works and the strikers say that If the firm does not discharge the non-untonists by to-morrow morning 2,7 hands will go out. As avon as the men learned that the non-union men had deen put to work The thirteen police telegraph operators who have foughtjn deficit in the back‘pay. Commissioner Murphy so ordered this}, | for me to know on acount of chan ‘the Croker Offers $2,000 for Original Copy of Kent Letter, Read at Republican Meeting. Ia the Andre Carnegie library kift to be the Issue. tn the present campalgn? The Low forces sprang a surprise last ight by producing a letter purporting to be from Mr. Carnegle to Lin- soln W. Kent, of Brooklyn, in which the steel master and philanthropist was reported as saying that itwas & personal affront to assume that there shoukl be doubt as to where he stood as to “Deveryism, Croker-\ fam and tts annex of Van Wkskism With this was the further statement tnat he had requested the removal of ais name from all Tammany banners and- ners and placards. When Mr. Croker read of this he at ce announced through his private sec- retary, Thomas W. Smith, a reward of $2.09 for the original of the letter. “L don't belleve the letter ts genuine, sald Mr. Croker. “If so let them pro- duce it AN New York My Party —Carnegle. Complicating and adding to the mys- tery of the altuation Ix a cablegram from Mr, arnegle from Skibo aatle, Scot- land, published this afternoon by the Matl and Express, In response to thelr cabled statement that Tammany Hall was making use of his name and libra gift for campaign purposes. Mr. Carnegte’s reply follows: +> - “I have one task on hand for we ‘New es York, which I think can be advantaged |!1 the ew York Is eple: by my abstention from city polities. 1} handled Her streeta, parks, schools and public institutions are am standing ready to co-operate with , those elected by the people, whether | Miticently handted. 3 or Republicans. [ know no “This declaration was made by ae, rnegie on board the steamship” Louls, which arrived ut Southampt. England, on Wednesday, March 20,. ‘The declaration was made in | preae nce of a number of the most |Unguished London correspondents resenting New York dally newspapel It was cabled to New York and al party in free Hbrary work York ts my party. “ANDREW ‘Tan.many men claim that Mr. Carnegic’s cabled reply was ronfirtr ation of the doubts cast by thelr} leader on the genuineness of the Kent TARNEGIE this afternoon at letter in the New York papers on the, Robert C. Moris, chairman of the Re-|ing morning, publican County Committee, sald this) S Check for $2,000 Ready. | » Democratic organization belteves afternoon that tho letter read last nigat | | that the Kent letter Is a base { in Wendell's Hall, Brookly: Wanmaker, had been written t | i W. Kent, of Brooklyn, “From my ac- | 884 the Democratle organtzation of the quaintance with Mr. Kent,’ sald) Mr ¢ New York will present’ to © od reason to believe that Mr. Carnegie ever ‘wrote . waen I recely lo‘siletter! tozse j such a letter as was read by the Re- s moment doubt that in| UbHean leader, Mr. Wanmaker, at his meeting In Wendell’ : Room last night." uissing to-day at Tammany ant | 4" ; the Kent Incident, Mr. Taoman | (42 connection with the politieal ex F, Smith, priy eretary of Richara |{ltement over Mr. Carnegle's library. 7 Croker, sald: e opening of this arg: to-day, the) trustces oC the eam lAbrary ‘gave out the advisory committee of are! munietpal tight Tre Tammany contractors. Hory ttery, were not among “SCHLEY WAS CALM WHILE IN BATTLE WASHINGTON, Oct. 16.—Commander Newton E. Mason, who was Executive G Meer on the Brooklyn during the war with Spain, rehearsed the battle of Santlagn Harbor before the Schley Court of Inquiry to-day. Mr. Rayner asked him how many times he had seen Commodore Schley ler fire, to which he replied: “During the engagements of the Cuban cam- ‘palan. “What was his general conduct, nd bearing on there Mr. Rayner asked. Excellent, In every partica He wi care collected and bray Asked to give a brief account of the battle of July 3, Commander Mason, after giving the preliminaries, salq: “When I saw the leading ship of the enemy coming out I gave the order ‘Clear ahip for action.’ What was done to'the engines I do not know, although my Impression is that they were started at once. As soon an I reported the bat teryito Capt. Cook In the conning tower, ked him if we should commence trite Order to Fire. “He replied: ‘Fire ax soon as you are Immediately gave the ord . Simpson, the sentor oMfcer forward turret, giving him a range I think the first gun was f the of 3,500 yurds. fred. within five minutes. er very clow to five minutes, after the first alarm ‘The rest of the battery.took up the fire at once and continued to ‘fire on the port bow until the ranges com- menced to get down to 1,800 und 1,60) yards, “I askel Capt. Cook as to which way he was going around, It belng necessary uattery below, ahifting from side to the other. He answered that h. Wax going with the port helm. I gave the necessary orders on deck and went below, Aa [arrived in the after cabin the after five-Inch gun wan fired for the Jast time on the port side and the | starboard gun took ua the tire tmm dhately. they went to Foreman Cox and de- manded that the man be discharged. It is reported they sugegsted that the nor-union man be thrown out of the window, Foreman Cox refused to dis- charge the man. The strikers way that a spectal meet- Ing of the Federation of Trates will be held to-night to take action on the mat- ter. Some time ugo there was trouble at (he works about the alleged employing of non-union men. At chat time tt was atated by the company that they had nough machines on hand to lant etgh- teen months and that tt could thecefore stand a strike. SHOOTING WAS ACCIDENTAL. ‘Two houra afterward other tenants smelled was. They traced it to Abel- man’s rooms. ‘The Janitor found Abelman unoon- sclous, dressed in his Sunday suit— black Prince Albert coat, light trousers and Immaculate ,linen—with a flower stuck Jauntily in,his buttonhole and a rubber tube In his mouth, ‘The ambulance surgeon sald the Jan- {tor was Just In time to save Abelman's ite. Abelman will give'no reason for his attempted suicide, a DYNAMITE TRAIN RAN AWAY. Dash: jain Side at 70-Mile Clip Without Accident, (Bpecial to The Evening World.) i WILKESBARRE, Pa, Oct, 16-a[REaben Schomtel Did Not try to freight train, two care of which con- BURRS ha 8 tained dynamit lown t Magistrate Deuel, In the Essex Market iiairaievat inves y .. The trainmen stuck to thelr posts, and, as the'track was clear, succeeded in stopping the train six miles nd the foot of the mountain. y runaway dashed the yards. Three exploded and Yourt to-day, discharged Reuben Schot- fel, of No, 28 Second street, from cus- tody, who wan charged with shooting his wife, Annie, in the hend last Saturday, Bchoffel said that a boarder was show- ing him a revolver and while he wan ex- amining It the weapon was accidentally fired. The wife, who is confined tn Belle- vue Hospital. tells the same story and reckon her hupband from all criminal in Protection: Soe ent rect ethene po (oof haere ‘BvANG'S was then on: lGommantenMescn anal: Lieut. McCauley Watched the Admiral set » tte Battle of aug o te conduct and. be nmodore Schley on the day.of When Under Fire. | ‘What | oaition when you saw himt*))” |, nthe platform outside the the circle and started ashore. After! “Did he make any encouragine: ee that we had achase of some Uine wia Pairks on that day to the officers uf the « in which for a time she made t Nahe thank, bullies es better speed than we did, when gradu- at more than once? ully we managed to overhaul her. Tulmes, Mr. Rayner—What did the Brookyn do Sh oh s nal or ad, - Immediately after the surrender of the) a atebittlebiteha—. Colon? ' The witness Commodore Schley's ring on ithe cas oe occasion - the Colon: had: not “She stopped about a mile or a mile mise, from whatit had! Depa and a half from the Colon, and started at once to send offleess in to receive her“ surrender, We had trouble in getting . many of them being disabled.” see asked to give the messaze as The cross. by Mr. witness xamination wea conducted Hanna, who qqueationed in detail concerning jto the Oregon to. use her thirteen: guns. Not Short of Coal, “After the surrender waa accom: h could recollect the witness age c * Brooklyn go ‘ 3 turned on board vig wineed! to hes naonthen Z ed to bless tward at once er ate on, during the cheze 2 Bune OF that has been one lof! your rallrogd: cept 4 Span- reported first noby the Vixen. ‘ulser Maria Ter- 1 sighted gon to try he- "met th a, wht Bk t spoken. of outside _ on cross-examination Comm: 9 not remember,’ Mason sald he the algnals | tha supply hls « “' proskiym and other not discussed the question with Commodore, nor had he any con with him on any other offictal He was quite sure that the Harly short of kKiyn was not) part ff ad atenalt us, She did pot Hanna aivo called attention” icnal books of* tha Paul of a mesma “The starboard battery wana he gaged for the rest of the action, T Lirookisnwan range at the time we turned tarde | suly'asithat: whe nember, was about 1,400 ya al- Vout of the hartwr te Brooklyn w though [shave a recollection Of a ting Yards being sent te me once. Twill rete i J sall that it ranz here by way of explanation that jampaon comes here tell Ralf of tee Head dron ts ranges were sent to me if T was near hand; if not they w sent dircet oMcers of the division at to the Enemy on Starbonrd, “After swinging around went from 240) and 2.500 to the position of the enemy, they were un the port bow outside the harbor when we made the turn with the rt h the ranges ud 3,00), As “At the end of the turn they were on our starboam) beam and quarter, with of them a ltde ahead, The Maria ‘Veresa very shortly after this, or about the end of the turn, dropped astern and sheered jn for the shore, the Oquento following along some short time later leaving the Viscaya and Colon: “After the Oquendo got ashore we had running feht with the Viscaya for one fr Aor uf w t from Ci had ber (rls Wenster, Was cal 1 been a watch officer turing the campaign fue delayed by smaller vessels, espec i faily the Eagle, and that bur for thoee nls se Chenduegon acre Vessels better vuld have been istince out at mgt made, that he ved the bom- fles with picket am the foretop she lay coating al miles away, and had noted t of the shots from the An ships fell short, while one at least of the shots by the Spantards fell outside h von: ne 3 that hi ngagement that batteries we nix or ww American vemse cluded from this © gune tn the Spanian shor callbre not Inches, mmander Mason was then excused and was followed on the stand by Lieut Edward McCauley, Jr, who as ensign kept a diary of the war's events, and of to exces veh’ a some time, the Colon her and on the Inside. aya when well forward on the beam, put her,helm hard starboard. It looked as If she wea going to turn an? go for us, OF crosa our path, then immediately abitted to hard aport, went clear around final} he read from (his for the Court's infor- mation. Lieut, MoCauiey also ga aignaly’ made from the while (that veasel was dote Schley's Magship May jen asked whether any signal ve a lst of the Massachusetts beirg ured’ an