The evening world. Newspaper, December 20, 1901, Page 1

Seven Hundred Miles Across Ice to Save Seven Men. A STORY FROM REAR-ADMIRAL SCHLEY. Next Sunday's World. __ PRICE ONE CENT. - $100,000 THEFT IN COLER’S OFFICE ete Investigation Following Chipps’s Defalcation Discov- ers Band of Five Who Have Been System- atically Robbing the City. Startling disclosures were made this afternoon in the office of Comptroller Coler, as a result of the in-| vestigation of Charles P. Chipp’s defalcation. Five trusted employees have for years been systematically robbing the city and their combined defalca- ions may reach, if they do not exceed, $100,000. fe All of the members of the “Band of Five” are Tammany men, one being very close to one of the Big Tammany Five and another being a brother-in-law of a well-known district leader. Sufficient evidence of their guilt has been found to cause their arrest and warrants will be obtained im- mediately. It has also been disclosed that Edward L. Taylor, formerly cashier of the Comptroller's office, who was found dead in bed in March, 1805, was short $10,000, It is now believed he committed suicide. Comptroller Coler has turned the whole matter over to District-Attorney Philbin, who has called Capt. | Titus to his aid. + +e——_____ DEFALCATIONS OF $100,000 OR MORE DISCOVERED BY DEFUTY SLATTERY. The arrest of the defaulting book- keeper, Charles P. Chipp, for twenty- four years a trusted city employee in | the Comptroller's office, has led to} the startling discovery that Mr. Chipp Was not alone in stealing $30,000. For years before the Coler adminis- tration, a ring composed of tive men Jn the department had been robbing the city systematically, but so clever- Jy did they cover up their crime that (Continued on Second Page. TRIED FOUR WAYS. | TO END HER LIFE THROAT-CUTTING, WINDOW-| JUMP, HANGING AND POISON. | These Sulclint Attempts of nck in Five Veurs tre | censint. au tos MRS. BURT SHEPARD, or Whom Detaulte: Chipp Stole ®0,000.) Four times in six yeare Mra rom a Pho: ————— ee Greatest The newspaper standing first Circulation | in New York City circulation in the stands first in America. The World is that newspaper. Greatest City NE Ww YORK, FRID. AY, DECEMBE R 20, 1901. PRICE ONE ‘CENT, IN BRIEFEST FORM. NIGHT SESSION FOR GLENNON. A night session of the Glennon trial is baing held by Re- corder Goff. Whitney late this afternoon told of receiving money from Wardman Glennon and giving it to Agent Dillon. He admitted on cross-examination that he had been arrested once in a poker game. He said he did not know it was Glen- non who had arrested him. When Whitney left the stand Agent Dilion, of the Park- hurst Society. was called. Dillon testified that the house at No. 148 West Thirty-third street, was known as the “Captain’s house.” He had tele- phoned Whitney the place was to be raided. Ten minutes ae he said, Acting Capt. Shiels and a policeman entered the place. ———————-—____- YOUNG GIRL STUDENT BURNED TO A CRISP. PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 20.—Miss Lillian Vickers. of Los Angeles. Cal., a young student at Eryn Mawr College, was burned to death in her room to-day. Believing that she was afflicted with leprosy, she applied a quantity of alcohol to her skin, thinking it would ure the disease. In some unknown manner the alcohol ignited and enveloped her in flames. Her body was burned to a crisp. 6 oe eeenereet) FIRE-ALARM SYSTEM FOR “L.” Arrangements were completed to-day between the Fire De} partment and the Manhattan Elevated Company, by which the| Fire Department is given permission to string along the Third| avenue road a fire-alarm circuit. For this privilege the Fire Department will install in every elevated road station along the line of the circuit a fire-alarm station. 5 (a 8 2 LATE RESULTS AT NEW ORLEANS, Fifth Race—The Hoyden 1, Balm of Gilead 2, Marcos 3. Sixth Race—Alard 1, Ada Penzance 2, Dorothy Lee 3. Para aa acide rh aes $8,000,000 LUMBER COMPANY INCORPORATED. The certificate of incorporation of the American Lumbe! Company was filed in the office of the County Clerk, at Newark. N. J. The authorized capital is $8,000,000. The papers were filed by John R. Dill. + KILLED BY FIVE-STORY JUMP. John Darcey, forty years of age, of No. 36 Washington street, at 3 o’clock this afternoon jumped or fell from the roof of a five-story building, at No. 38 Washington street, to the sidewalk and was kille ‘ SHERIFF SEIZES © PREACHER’ S HOME poe fotowing| House of Rev. Isaac Funk, Prohibitionist, May aa “| Be Sold to Satisfy Gerding’s $6,000 Claim. mpt suicide H-health, youre vhe left a sick bed and | a window] The home of the Rey the Protiitt into his | Wahi wig up t mmit Mr, Funk mana Mrs, Pe Mu surveillance Ive 15,000 | he hibitton ttlement never] Sherif! Walton says the elergyman's | materialized. and Gerding saya he never| se WI be put up for sale xt | & penny of the salary due hin PERTH, West) Austra week unles# some settlement of Gerd- | the Rev, Mr admits ‘The commander of ing’s claim Ixy made Jengaged Gerding to Lloyd steamer N To-day's welzure of the Rev. Mr, township, he ways tha witz, has been fined £7 ($125) tor Break Funk's house ist phaxe of a es were nwa tory Carthy. legal battle that Charles Gerding, sn, | that reason he haw refused to pay DROVE HIS PONY LOW DENIES HE WILL SEE PLATT. UP THE STAIRS. ALL APPOINTMENTS TO BE}/Brower Cut a Curious Caper ANNOUNCED AT ONCE. ina Brooklyn | Apartment House, and Doesn't Explain It. Mayor-Elect Says Me Will Make <= ———______— Them Pablic Te-Day or J. Clinton Brower, a well-known lover | « Inton. With the earnest axsiet of horses who lives in a Brooklyn Mrs. Brower, the Janitor suc eceded in getting Brower to take th anartment house known as the Ard Mayor-elect Seth Low anid thin morn-| Ut @ caper at his home on 7 Boyd ty succeed: him. } no child can be recelved in any insti- cary j tutlon and maintained at public coat DIANE CAR te ACID. unless convicted of crime or com: | “PsBu Dev. James J.| mitted by a competent court Barry, of Paterton, No J uy com- sli sien, h Jepot MRS, DALE AT GHAND JURY, No actd. The case of Elizabeth Howe Dale, who is aused eath by year ore the we pony ing that the reat of hin appointments | MZbt that so chilled all the ce (aire as badly would be made public elther this after-|ants that thoy have been nearly spe WAN SUE CEN noon or to-morrow morning. ar eeor i He sald he had been delayed by the *) find out what caused Mr Press of social obligations, such ay big | He took well-beloved Mttle pony | rower to cut his caper dinners. right into the front door of ulin | tout tt fe dented that he had any appoint-|up the atalre and into lil own aparte | nelghbo ment with Senator Platt, who ts now In| ments where he was met by hls i iyi Vaita astonished wife, In the procession there the Ardaley, was a coachman and (sree dogs, 4 and went ta with the ‘The Ardaley bars even dogs, and when | he would with a friend to dinner, the Janitor found that a horse had been] Further than this there ls no informa- brought in asa pet he ulmost had w| tion, ‘ Success invariably follows in the \ track.of the Sunday World Wants. TOLD IN_TABLOIDS. Panera KELLER CHANITY RULE HOLDS. ALB. Dew John Ne Juetice Clarke. by a decision fled to Partridge to-day resigned as State. day in the Supreme Court, sustains endent of Public Words, and the rule established by John W. polnted Charles Spencer, ler, Commisstoner of Charities Me August 7 & her Utes before United Sta Sith Shields for exam The KILLED BY FUM Namfnation was adjourned for a week PITTSHURG, P. One man aiesiaarea a = ie In dead and t rin ow DUG aU a a | dition at th ding-houre Mra. Helen Mo De Le Cotaink, Etna, Penn, as the Wert i focation by fumes from a nalgned in v eha hed kets which Mra, Kite 8 var t elect Low, miss ait fe him regarding the | Like ome BEEF TRUST HAS CORNER ON EGGS AND PRICE IS UP. CoG ge ne Apples Have Also Advanced and Potatoes Are Fifty Per Cent. Higher Than a Month Ago. feure o cents they are Investment ho mason Kiven for the potato pu they’ are $1.25 a pared now, ainist $2 lust month. The hig to be taken off 31,80,00 ahead Kone) patente will Have to & nul ths price on pol » ite usual level sare also very high all crop last fall. Good < nin apiece. ahd those. ford by. are fitonly’ for sauce and ple, ae the reigning! the peo! A _\VERY LATEST NEWS | wired to Recretary Gage, this city ee WHITNEY TIPPING OFF A RAID HEARD CHIEF DEVERYS VOlb L —_—____+¢. Startling Testimony Against Wardman Glennon Given by Edgar A. Whitney After a Few Hours in the Tombs. The most damaging testimony yet against Wardman Glennon, on trial before Recorder Goff. was given late this afternoon by Edgar A. Whitney, who, after a few hours In the Tombs, changed his mind and decided to tes- tify, though he had previously re- fused to do so. Whitney maid he tad known Glenne ten years, and told of with him last May “Glennon sald,” testified, “that they thought of opening a pool- Whitney room, and would like to know wintt the soctety would de about it. He asked me if I knew any of the other agents. 1 omatd [T knew McClintock, Hamilton and Dayton. Glennon Wanted Tips. “He told me if 1 cot a connection with the Soctety there would be gov money tn it fe anid he wonld Uke to have e would Hke have me call ap the atation-house know.” a talk about disorderly that time. That was “Yea. but not to him as a favor.” “What do you mean?” “Well, the firat arrangement was an pool-rooms, It wan distinctly unde stood It had nothing to do with dis- orderly houses. GHe aald to me there wana house in Weat Thirty-third street, 148, that heen ra three years he we have it keep on ri “He said that McClintock had made a written complaint against the house, tnat it had been referred to Head- quarters and (hat an Investigation was to be made." “There were other conversations?” “There were. We talked mostly about gambling houses." “Did you see Dillon?” “T did. [sald Glennon had one house he would Ike to luve protected. “What was the arrangement?" PRESIDENT TURNS WAKEMAN OUT. $2-—____—_—__ Wilbur F. Wakeman, Appraiser of thin port, was suminarily dismissed by Preatlent Roosevelt this afternoon ‘The long fight against: Mr. Wakeman certain merchants of New York. George Whitehead, of Buffalo, appointed toe succeed Mr. Wakeman Secretary Gage wrote to Mr. Wake: by tlen ten days ago, Mr. Wakeman iid not resign, nor did he delen to the letter at the time. — Inate About componing a long lett wh nade ury Deparime of thin [et ter mailed te reached him yeatentny ‘The President was not pleased. He who was in to attend a banquet, naking him to return to Washington, The Bec- retary hurried from the banquet to a 2-l train for Washington and called at the White House at 9 o'clock thin morning. |Summarily Dismisses Him From Office and} Names George Whitehead His Successor. dismissal in the culmination of a fa was | dent answer | ‘biting | that f the Treas-| seem to be oosevelt | the Roorevelt | ihe, women {in the house next door. They sat in the windows and called in mea. vn Paper. “Well, Twas Thirtteth to ring up the agreed to call up Police Heada hen there was to be a rald,” “1 was told by Dillon t waa to be made “Thad heen told by Glennon just to ring up the Thirtieth street station and to aay 1 Trang up 3,l0) Spring and A for the Thirtleth street station y sald I couldn't get the connec: Tt was th rator that satd this Me ‘ ¥. 7 em much ight."* © her witness who had lived at No. wv was called. hirty-third str Mrs. James 3 rtment in the that way.” ‘d the singing, the rousing next doo 1 Fert the place to Fine po- Mr. Osborne a Beane lon, | the operator to give me 0 Chiel Mevery. ther | ¥en, 1 told the pol me italde thin, beat ahout the house five oix timen.’? 1 oheard the volee of Devery| (00) jonn Flood waa. then recalled. over the phone. Did you ask your officers to get evi- “Then the « + came and left] 4! iyainaci the; house at So) We Wer word that Twas t when [ wanted tt “Twas then gt station over the get that connection Glennon make a report the Thirtlezh street ce wires: nn) He was out. 1 sked for Sergeant Shells. He came hone and told him 1s." 1 met nd told him I ng up and told Sergeant Shetls. he knew | Devery had told him “On the evening of Aug, about 5 maon gave me 8100, E did not have a chance to lve the money to Dillon, 1 de- poalted the money in bank.’ To corroborate this point, a bankbook was praduced and submitted in evidence, “Who did the $100 come fromt" “I was told the money was a present from 148."" jorney Tidewny asked Bowman Neighbor a Wituess. he did before he went with the at Parkhurst’ Soctety. a SEU A read caked te Lizate | Pitiwaa a merchant.” sald the witness, West Thirty-third | ryen Howman slowly added, “on—the— street, next door to the house Glennon | t." falled to suppress. She Hves with her husband and children on the third floor | and had a near view of the resort. Mra, Engel sald there AV make a dally report?” fon't say Glennon reported daily: this house.” no report fi a disorderly hi “L asked for then mh! e Parkhurst Lightenbers, an agent of Agent Called. the 4 in great detail ld to the -house fe esompanted on Agent Bowman. sitting on the eteop: id, Lightenberg. aul rkhurat Soclet "Melly “Any “Bhey vslesed" at you." paigitg asked to valen.” Mr. Lighten Promptly made a’ whlstiing nuise mits Bie Tips Bowman a “Merchant.” jilted Howman. who. was present om hat did you, sell? ankfurters,”” announced Bowman, some heasttsncy. ‘order Goff motioned to the atten@- stop the laughter. or alx nts CORN EXCHANGE BANK REACHES OUT WILL ABSORB MECHANICS AND TRADERS’, BROOKLYN. Directors Advise Stockholders to Accept Offer of Charles W. Morne'a Ci There waa a long conference over the Wakeman letter, which, in addition to sof Secretary Ga ened | fal to resign. In it was | conatrued to be a defiance of the tary of the Treasury amd jations are in progress that will The defance w probaly lead to the absorption by U ‘orn Exchange Bank, a Charles Wy | Morse institution, of the Mechanics’ and. aders’ Bank, of Brooklyn, located at Franklin an enpoint avenues. The, Hrooklyn Institution has a capital atock’ of $100,000, and it« surplus, according to) tement rendered, Ls $195,000. s were notified to-day that k had made a> ate the two Ine Brooklyn’ ts underatood Wakeman’s nc nat in ice of addition dismissal Prewi- man asking for his anmediate resigna- | dent Roosevelt sent along a stinging re- 1 TT buke Mr. Wakeman arrived at he $4) mn leave o vf the mon down ¢ ¢ tine would not 36 ny thing thoukh. and when f toat T have bee: sto tell a few eT whall keep | ¢ dot) make pudiie he had sent a copy Secretary Gi ane TWO FIRES THERE ws BLOCK WITHIN A YEAR. TENANTS ROUTED OUT FOR A|NEW LONDON THE SCENE OF SECOND TIME. So Many of Them Brought Chick-| Five W ens Along that Mott Street Reaembled altry Show, the second time within a year the rate, on the round floor of Nos, 236-240 Mott ares) has caught fire under peculias, circum noes he. bulldihge ta sttll there, Hallan families whe ve on the upper fluo: of them ‘ will never The fre rted a ttle befo and the ¢ for a At this this morning, Ttallans looked pultry show rar Italians are In the habt chickens for Chriatmas, | Wh Kem of fire spread thrauwh. ene: hullde ing tae chickens A fat the first things the tenant thought of, and they came streaming {nto the streeis with their Arm (ull of squawking, fluttering fowls “y that even the firemen jaughed at them, DEVERY ABANDONS PUMP. BURNED OUT. ave aban= and his cabinet DISASTROUS FIRE. on Raildings Destroyed from Twent¥= the meetings vestroppers ns to power, if still cons i yet under control, ‘The Are i lone ia about ending at 8 New York City | on Thursday Evening Dinner Dance. A Thursday dinner dance was given la at Delmon- Ito's, There were 1 Dinner was served at am, nab! In the ballroo These were jab Vater cor the cguillon. which was led by Alexander | M. Hadden, who danced with Miss Edith Post. evening say