The evening world. Newspaper, March 28, 1902, Page 1

a al a a ae | tin ell naka i a hea a eta et i ole a Che eae NIGHT EDITION. GENERAL SPORTING NEWS ON PAGE 10 “ Circulation Books Open to All.’’ GENERAL SPORTING NEWS ON PAGE !10___ lorld, | Circulation Books Opex: to Al” | —— SS: a PRICE ONE CENT. NEW YORK FRIDAY. MARCH 28 1902 PRICE ONE CENT. WITNESS HIDDEN BY POLICE: NO POLICE GAMBLING RAIDS, To District- Attorney Jerome The Evening World to-day submitted this question in writing: e Can gambling run wide open in New York as it does now without the gamblers paying money tribute TO THE HIGHEST POLICE OFFI- CIALS in Mulberry Street ? To this question District- Attorney Jerome wrote this answer: I do not think it can without the gamblers paying money to THE RIGHEST POLICE OFFICIALS. Peter Hand, Who Knows the McAuliffe Dummy,'|Resorts all Running) Cannot Be Found, Though Seen in Conference} Wide Open On the with Policemen—He is Wanted by Jerome to| Mysterious ‘‘Tip’’ that) Explain His Testimony About the Mystery.| there Will Be No In- terference— Cappers Busy in Hotels. Peter Hand, ex-cabman, gambler and intimate through pecu- fiar association with a forme high official in the Police Depart- gment, holds the key to the solution of the MeAuliffe murder i | | | | | Encouraged by official police inac- j tivity and the assurance from the mysterious agent at No. 300 Mulberry street that the “game” is now safe and police interference will not pre- vail, new gambling-houses and pool- rooms are opening dally until, as an habitue expressed it to-day, “we jcan't keep track of all of them.” It {s a fact that there are at least fifty pool-rooms running ir full blast +{in the Tenderloin precinct alone, and | quite as many other gambling places of greater or lesser degree. | Well-dressed “‘cappers” for the gambling-houses, many of them in evening clothes, mingle with the guests nightly in most of the big up-| town hotel# and “steer” players to| the gambling establishments which within a recent period have sprung into feverish activity. mystery. He stood at the clerk’s desk with the fictitious McAuliffe while the latter gave his pedigree to secure his discharge papers. He walked out of the court-room with the McAuliffe “Dummy.” Since The World's investigation of the McAuliffe murder Hand has disappeared. He is wanted by the District-Attarney to ex-| plain certain discrepancies in his testimony at the Coroner's inquest but he has kept out of the way. CAPT. DONOHUE WILL NOT TALK. ‘A reporter for The Evening World cornered Capt. Donohue in the Went Forty- peves.th street station to-day and asked “Where ts Peter Hand?” “You are from The Evening World, eh?” Capt. Donohue said, his face flushing. well, the McAuliffe case is out of my hands now. I don't know anything about Hand and don't want (o know anything about him ‘Then the Captain slammed the door of his office. pbout Peter Hand He ts in the city for all that, and his presence is known to several policemen He didn't even want to talk VERY LATEST NEWS| IN BRIEFEST FORM. JANE TCPPAN TO BE SENT TO INSANE ASYLUM. BOSTON, March 28.—The insanity experts who have twice examined Jane Topapn. the alleged poisoner of the Davis family at Cataumet, have notified the government that they are unanimous in their opinion that the woman is insane. YOUNG TELLER FLED: BANK'S FUNDS GONE. She will be committed to an asylum next week. oe onversation $10,000,000 IN NEW TRUST. Declares that He Is En-/""" gaged to Mrs. Ad- die Francis. NEWARK, N. J., March 28.—Incorporation papers were fiiod with tne County Clerk this afternoon for the American Coal and Railway Supply Company, cagitalized at $10,000,000. The incorporators are Charles E. Weltmore, of Weston, N. J.3 Clarence P. Hall, of Cedarhurst, L. |., and Richard Shann af | ondon, England. RAILS AT THE RECORDER. °°" s will not the cus a dalanced vunte in the 5 |Asserts that Goft and Os- borne Were in a Com | A Model Young Man. FLORENCE BURNS IN POMPTON, N. J.? bination. Per Re ie . ny heat Fae _ 7 west side ane World reporter this aftet= Albert T Patrick, having ken: & th _ do ot believe he Wer tos im o interest It was reported this afternoon’ that Florence Burns, who was supposed to be living in seclusion in Poughkeepsie. is in Pompton Plains, N. J. ; mouth shut tight for sev ff now exceedingly talkutive mo: His the his flance pent taking 41 hardly thingie possible for him tows played the races, vietion makes a | Ss 1 fe wa to a lovely young i making Sis ase anY worse than tt is 1 earned that he spept He explained to-day why he n . vening ner company. Sa Hew riding and driving e stand in his ow LATE RESULTS AT BENNINGS. mono he again paid bh » bank that he « ¢ io : ore : ney as he fell hele Sixth Race—All Saints 1, Lou Rey 2, Farrell 3. Attornes 8 short tine ame, ene If there do heen any * OF tat te wena nthe bench I'd have take RAINY EASTER DAY IN PROSPECT. Le ae eE een blekhann Warne . : . A mistake in putting in any defense a Es Because to-day’s rain gave no definite signs of letting up |"",.. 702.7 te" 8 fair tal ae ae at nee i Goff and Osborne worked right to- before Saturday at midnight the Weather Bureau were loat to-night to predict fair weather for Easter Sunday. “Nothing fri fe ne tree ne scat ' cs, This com: but rain in sight now and indications are that it wiii Continue | taned rignt in witn Osborne's a ldrees ae a ant | P2% deta ee for thirty-six hours,” was the prediction this evening. It| renter’ za) iar defers eatanpand E vate detec- hi : elon. 1 was hand- | r ke a guilty man, a felon. 1 was hand-| hus far we have cuffed to niggers and Chinamen and every effort was made to break me down. My lawyers had no standing | jecourt. They were called barroom braw rained Easter Sunday last year. Attached to the West Forty-seventh street station. One of the peeullar features garding Hand's connection with the case ts the fact that on the Wednesday following the murder of McAuliffe he went to the West Forty-seventh street Btation and remained for some time in conference with the officials there. Neither! their nefarious business are well kno’ Capt. Donohue nor his subordinates have ever mentioned this visit to the Dfstrict-; to the hetel detectives and ‘Attorney or his assistants. Mr Jerome was surprised when told of the fact to-| but no effort t made to @ay by an Evening World reporter. l operations. They may be Hand can testify that the man arraigned as McAuliffe in the West Side Court| night in the lobbies of any of the big| Gla not wear a bandage on his hand, as did the McAuliffe picked up dying tn | hosteiries ready to scrape the acquaint. | Bixth avenue. ance of a prospective player and invite He can testify that the prisoner was sober and uninjured him to the always near-by resort where He can testify to the time he ard the prisoner left the court-room together. | the click of the roulette whee! and the| He can tell what direction the alleged McAuliffe took when they parted com-| cries of the croupler denote the chmr- pany outside the court. acter of the place. ‘These “‘cappers’’ give the nod of ac- SOME QUESTIONS FOR HAND. quaintance to Central Office and ag Hand, {f located, will be asked to explain why he testified at the inquest that cinct detectives, and the frequent re-| fhe was too drunk to recal! exactly what had transpired tn court, when his bonds- mark is passed “How is the game to-| man, Frank J. Davidson, says he was perfectly sober when he bailed him out at | night?” ; | £8.20 o'clock In the morning. Never before in the history of the He will be asked why he testified that he had gone to sleep at his mother's! has the “game been so good or heme, when she says he was not in her house for a week after Feb, 15 extensive. By day the pool-rooms He will be asked why the name cent high official of the Police Depart- and certain gambling-houses in nearly ment was used by the woman who 4 Hotel-Keeper Frank Davidson to go precinct south of the Harlem e Ignore Them. These “cappers” and the nature on hir bond er are in comparatively open opera- Hand in twenty-seven years old, § feet 9 Inches in height, weighs 160 pou dat night in and around the| «se amcoth-shaven and dark ha He is usually well dressed. For ten years|Tenderioin and in Harlem roulette, | he has spent his time in the neighborhood of the West Forty-seventh street sta-|furo, English hagard, craps, Klondike tion. He was for.nerly a hack driver tion nor abode. His mother says he ts single THROUGH A WOMAN FRIEND HE RELATION WITH § E OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. WOMAN SECURED BONDSMAN. ured Frank J. Davidson, of Thirty-ffth atreet 1 the nliht of his arrest, Davidson in not! 1 the woman ment hame of a pow and's release not able to go | and stud poker are played for the limit | Latterly he neither a settied oceupa-| in scores of well patronized establish. | His aiater declares he is married | ments. | INJOYED RATHER AN INTIMA | Commissioner Partridge and his dep- POWERS THAT WERE” IN ‘iHi| uty. Col. Thurston, precinct captains (Continued on Ninth Page.) It was this woman who ee ae fnd Eighth avenue, to Ko @ professional bondsm. erful politician he ' as 45 He fo the station with the woman unt AM | When Hand was brought from his cell, Davidson says he was sober and asked off in a cab with the woman, and Da more of him In police court next morning Har er Joseph Rosenbach, of Eighth . @venue and Fifty-fourth street, whom he had known for years. The lawyer does | tof the court-room to-| 3.rs. Josep: Hand, a Peter Hand since Feb. 15, aded a christening at w, denied emphatically that she had seen n confronted with the fact, admitted what home a wee! y | lor yenre ony they saw him this week in eventh street sintion in conversation BOSTON, March In a handed down in the United st cult Court to-day by Judge L. Jit is held that the Life Insu Company may a bill for the surrender and cancellation of an insurance policy tor $340 arant- ed to James , Pearson, who died before the first premium had been received at |the t office of the ineurance com- pany, although it had been paid to an B. Colt, New York Mutual ity of the We with policemen of the precin M’AULIFFE REWARD DOUBLED! The First $1,000. The World wiil pay $1,000 to the man who personated James McAuliffe in the West Fifty-fourth ara court on the morning of Feb, 16 last, he to establish that fact, or to any person or persons who shall produce the man who personated McAuliffe at the ad- dress and time mentioned and prove that he {s the man who per- sonated McAuliffe. The World will further guarantee to such “dummy” absolute protection and immunity from arrest, prosecution or persecution. The World has the assurances of District-Attorney Jerome that this mae be not be prosecuted nor molested if he comes forward and tells the sh. ce maintain “agent of the company It waa claimed that Mr. Pearson's private tary paid the premium he man in- je policy after been taken iI! based his decision on the came had ross fraud, inten- fin: been « ; tional or otherwise, a WOOLLEN WEAVERS STRIKE. FITCHBURG, Mass. March 2%—The entire of weavers in the Fitch- burg Worsted Milly and the Beoll Mills of Woollen Compan: bine in the loom system The Second $1,000. ut down, The World will pay $1,000 more to the person or persons who but it is is depart shall furnish it with Information that shall lead to the arrest and wore wil be tale, —_ conviction of the person dr persons guilty of the murder of James McAuliffe, who was found dying in front of No, 863 Sixth avenue on Sunday morning, Feb. 16, 1902, ith, 1s, i 3%. tor Europe to-morrow on the.Caipania, He will be gone about a month. | ers and treated as such by the | My witnesses were sneered at by O8-! of the borne and grinned at by Goff. What| | was thé use in my going on? “No mi Tite biamelens. ling in the slightest wanized in 1887 ane enlonable apartment: PILOT DIES ON A STEAMBOAT. P Capt. Benjamin’ Tripp; ‘sixty years old, a pilot on the steamship Oneida, of the Clyde line, died on a steamboat on SRAM ene (0 may vast. 8: Chere are ie He became’ 1h Park Sith. J. G. Claney’ te ¥ way from Providence to New York. His body is at pier 48, | autortes ana ate to look bad Gon termed an imputat! fone cn 1 it Biealon exahte North River. would have helbed Osborne do tt. ani ety Mt | Py not teen oftictally notified of the CUBAN RECIPROCITY BILL TO BE HELD UP? Rice, they would have made It look so. 7 Michews, the young lady Engaged to Mrs. Francia. was engaged, denied her M ddie Mo Francis ‘ho ‘ s 4 . at her ; WASHINGTON, March 28,—Representative Babook, of paiick vsaciet ar ine sme ations" Went Fittyenret streee Pt roof W. J. Mathews, < Wisccnsin. will go to Atlantic City for a stay of some time, owing to ill health, As Babcock’s vote was thought to be necessary to report the Cuban reciprocity bill from the Ways and Means Committee by Republican votes, this news caused quite a stir. It is understood Chairman Payne wil not call 2 special meeting of the Ways and Means Committees this week. ‘ ties Mathews {sa tall 1 ste i sing 5 appre s inn teatimon put ont acquittal Patr “SHAW PROBES BANK TREASURER ELIS ISLAND. SHOT HIMSELE ~. PERSONALLY INVESTIGATES IMMIGRATION BUREAU. ,O/RECTOR BABY DORA TAKES ESTATE FROM FATHER. Little Dora Norman, of No. 100 West Ninety seventh street two years old, but she is big enough to take away from her father. Martin Nathan Norman, the estate bequeathed to him by her mother, Carrie 1). Norman. The will, filed this afternoon, was executed at Gloversville, Y., June 22, 1899. It left her entire estate, not large, to her husband. put Provided that ff any child was afterward bornto thm th one hl —>———_" go to the child i " Baby Dora was torn after the will was executed TO-NIGHT'S EVENTS. last November ar Se Mil cary tournament, Madison mare Garden, ts onty bght S MET AND FOUND ! HiS ACCOUNTS CORRECT. With Fltehte He ¢ About the Station te Look Inte Its Workings ~ . Woeot, of New fr Vrost John Mre Norman died oo VOTING MACHINE FOR EVERY PRECINCT There \s a prospect that voting machines wil! be used in every pre cinct in the city at the next election, The Board of Elections met at Police March w shot him- » tovlay and Headquarters this afternoon to consider the propositicn. and while no a: “ ¢ r ve tion was taken all of the members expressed themselves ax being in favor “ 1a atieey on ime. oe of the Innovation. It will cost $600,000 to inaugurate the machines. Oppo ‘ : ( a arly imr of Church « munton, Vo. 10 Weat street. Young Men's Nenevolent seetation, ment and ball evening. Went side ¥ sition to the plan is sure to develop, and the board will not come to a de>- sion on the matter for several months. i CROWD SAW MAN CRUSHED TO DEATH. The Broadway crowds at Thirty-fourth street were horrified this afte noon to see a man crushed to death in the excavations for the foundations of the big buildings eo be erected there. The victim was fifty years old. a drier, of No. 309 Bast One Hundred and Firet street. He tried to disiods & maas of loosened rock, when {t fell, killing him instantly Several otner workmen escaped narrowly ° a REVENUE OFFICERS RAID A STILL. he offer frat Noor Crier oe i Revenue agents raided an iHegal #till at No. 441 Pleasant avenue this | ATagyiie. Momineue street: : 1 Woeott cytog tae afternoon, arrested Banny Ftevack, an employe, and confiscated seventy-five 2 Abert 7 * \ w gallons of whiskey, fifty barreis oc mash, 110 pounds of sugar and 200 pounds —_ of yeast and a horse and wagon. Ftevack before United Siates Commis | w 4 sioner Shields was held in $2,500 ball. | ; re Aas « ————+t-____- WEATHER FORECAST. wi — WOMAN ACCUSED OF BURGLARY. tenresas Cori thal (airlrctls STORM WARNING OUT. Superintedent, of ERB MU si hours ending at SoM M s NS oat ieealtie Elizabeth Bordan, twenty years old, was arrested this afternoon by Seiwedars tar/Nevw Naek Clty “ s onde te officers of the Fourth avenue station, Brooklyn, on a charge of burglary Snalivielnttz: Ral Lo \ awl on tors er directota She admitted using skeleton keys to enter the fiat of Joseph Theim, over her gf SM Saturdays fresh I rely ane wha eae rooms, at No. 117 Thirty-ninth street. She admits having taken $47 in casi ea atextylwinie: M iF. Rows. ant agold watch. At OL, OSBORNE GpiNG TO EUROPE. Avetstant District»Attorney Osborne, Lawyer's Patrick's prosecuts.,. sails Ife, oy. “\Wyeoft dicd in the Hospital Ine afiernoon, Fi é