The evening world. Newspaper, July 11, 1902, Page 8

Hs — POLICE VEER IN LATIMER CASE. Capt. Buchanan Now Hints that Man Was Not Shot by Burg- lar. LOOKING UP SAM JONES. “Buspect’ Under Arrest! Found to Have Told False Story of His Doings on Night of Shooting. ‘After a conference this afternoan with ‘Waiter Latimer, a brother of Albert ©. Latimer, Police Captain Buchanan, of Brooklyn. was inclined to again change Qis theory of the murder of Lath Walter Latimer sald he was conv! hat his brother had heen shot by a burg. Jar, but when he had left Capt. Cus! ‘fanan the police official was not so cer- tain. Buchanan intimated that tnyesti- gations nad brought to ight certain matters which Inclined him to the belle that Latimer was not slot by a robber. Walter, Latimer said that he had merely called Capt. Buchanan to | @iscuss with him the case and to en- Highten the police, if possible, on tne | pursult of his brother's slayer “Before Capt. Bucaanan changed his | view the impression of the Brooklya | police was that Sam Jones ex: convict, arrested suspicion, knows More of the #ooting than he bas told ‘This was strengthened by the breaking down of Jones's alibi. Investigation | shows that he did not speak truthfully | bout his whereabouts the night the murder was committed. “Jones told the police that he bad Uved at the Mills Hotel up to the night of June 3, and that he went to Brooklyn on July 1 to jok for work He said that ina saloon in Smith street he: met a man he knew as “Jack” and spent Tuesday night with this man in a house in South Brooklyn, the loca- tfon of which he could not rememtier. He got up at 6.8 o'clock Wednesday morning, he said, and went to Coney Band, where he obtained employ- ment. ‘The shooting of Latimer occurred on Wednesday morning about 2 o'alock Ht Jones's story were true he must have been in bed at the house of his Lriend “Jack.” Jones's Story Not True. But the story is not true. "Jack" has Been found. He says that Jones slept at his house in South Brooklyn on Mon- day night, and that he complained of being in hard luck, and said he would have to do something to raise money. The man “Jack” 1s respectable and trustworthy, This story leaves Jones with the night ot the murder to account for. Unless he con establish ancther alibi or ahow that “Jack” .* mistaken an effort will be Tiude to fasten the crime upon him. thing Strange About Shees, Policeman Schepp, the first to arrive ®t the houge after the alarm was given ty, aire, Latimar, thinks there js some- thing strange About these shoes. on on | | ““When, I went down in the kitchen the first time,”” he sald, “1 did not see he shoes no; cne vap. 1 looked around diy, it is true, but 1 am confident my age took in the tubs, on the top ‘of which the shoes were placed when my attention was called to them by the colored servant. This was the sec- time I went to the kitchen. I may bave overlooked the shoes the frat time, t I cannot bring myself to believe that I aid.”” Mr. Latimer's body, which is now at his late home, No. 318 Hancock street, Brooklyn, will be removed to-night to Aurora Grata Cathedral, at Bedford @yenue and Madison street, where there Will be two funeral services, There are 000. members of the Royal Arcanum, Which the victim was an officer, in irookiyn, and a large attendance is ex- pected. 1 . William C. Rhodes, of the Marcy Avenue Baptist Church, of which | Mr. Latimer was an attendant, will con- | duct the first se. which is for ¢ family and those friends of the deceased who are outside of the Arcanum. The second service will be for members of the Royal Arcanum only, and will be held under the auspices’ of De Witt Clinton Council, UNCLE SAM SHOULD AID THIS WOMAN, Appeal in Behalf of Mrs.| Batiste, Who Lost Her En-| tire Family in the Destruc-| tion of St- Pierre. Every effort is being made by Com. | missioner of Immigration Williams, the French Consul in New York and Mr. Gustav Schwab, Chairman of the Marti nique Relief Committee of the Chaumbe: of Commerce, to prevent the deportation to Murtinique of Mrs, Benisxe Batiste, an attractive young French woman who ar- Tived here jast Saturday on the steamer Korona, of the Quebec line. Al! of her family were lost in the destruction of | Bt. Plerre, Mrs. Batiste having been in Fort de France at the Ume Mrs. Bativte’s story is pather) only is she without friends or resources, | fout she is also in delicate health, she 46 @ refined, cultured woman, and de. Clares she would not seek the charity of the authorities pere were she not| helploas. Behwan has assured Commissioner liams that if the woman were per: ed to land he would Insure that her diate Wants would be looked ufter. rench Consul undertook to guar that she would not become a pub- ree. ding!y four appeals, Batiais, one. fritn con ‘one ‘trom "Mr. Schwab trom the French Consul, to the tary of ease mts epin from Seaseld |, twenty-eight years old, f street, Jersey City, Pri te one from misaloner | whos | Aug. Not | | .902 1 % THE WORLD: FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 1, 1 RESCUERS FACE DEATH TO SAVE MINE BURIED ALIVE IN JOHNSTOWN FIRE PIT. Forty Men Descend Under Leadership of Supt. Robinson— Womenand Children, GriefStricken, Crowd Morgue Where Re- covered Bodies Are Deposited. (Continued from First Page.) feur hours have elaps the frightful explosion, it is still impossible io tell with any degree of accuracy how many miners have perish Estimates made by sons pe lesses are apt to he cor- rect now place the list of dead at | | Eighty-seven bod’es have been | recovered so far to-day. Four! living injured were brought to| the surface. | Ileadless been | found a mile from where the ex- hedies have SCENE AT THE SHAFT plosion occurred. plosion rr ‘Taken bxprem All the dead thus far recov 902. OF THE CAMBRIA MINE. y for The Evening World. ered have been placed in the ar- mory of Company H, Fifth Regi Women children, | ‘CARELESSNESS AND NEGLIGENCE CAUSED BIG MINE EXPLOSION. + ment. and relatives of the men who were killed and mutilated, are surging about the dumb, inexpre: NOT CONVINCED SUICIDE IS FOOLS Miss Fisher, Who Tried Mt, must have been local. But the explosion instantly drove Hasn't Made Up Her Mind| — - Yet Paroled in Agent's HUGE HOLE IN POWHATAN’S SIDE MADE BY PRISCILLA. a armory building in ible grief, | C.'H. Parker, editor of the Engineering and Mining Journal, one of the ‘eading mining experts in the country, said to an Evening World reporter to-day “All familiar with coal mining, and particularly the Johnstown mines, ee that the explosion of yesterday could not have been caused except If properly observed, the regulations as these. through negligence and carelessness. are sufficient to protect the mines from such disaste sion was due to lack of discipline, y two or three duys ago a miner in this same mine was caught by a foreman testing for gas with an open Iamp. all the air out of Katherine R. Fisher, the librarian of the Chanty Organization Soctety, who attempted suicide last Tuesday by | Battered Merchants and Miners’ Liner Reaches Jumping from the ferry-boat Texas, was : - . arraigned in Yorkville Court this atter- Erie Basin for Repairs. noon and paroled by Magistrate Hogan in the custody of Agent Forbes, of the Charity Organization. Miss Fis! has been a patient tr Bellevue. here she has been visited several times by her mother and father. Mr. and Mrs, Fisher acoompanted thelr daughter to court The girl, who appea to weak. was arraigned in the private chambers of the Magistrate After rning the facts, he sald to the girl: know you did sanething very foolish, «on't vou? “That seems to be pression,” replied the javen't yet come to but 1 suppose 1 will Mra. Isher, the girl's mother, Magistrate’ Hogan th no reason for the girl's act’ The father sald that if h.s daughter were dis- charged he would take her home and look after her The girl was then paroled | Mr. and Mrs. Fisher, accompanied by their daughter, at once ieft court, going apparently to thelr home In Brooklyn. Post-Otfice Location Decided. BORDENTOWN, NX. J.. July 11.—The flat for the location of the Borden- town Post-OMce, which caused a stir there, has been ended. The office will be in the Frank P. Gabe! Butlding. It will be leaned for ten years dating from be very the general im. irl slowly. "I that conciuston, wold t she could give MAYOR ATTACKED ON CIVIL SERVICE, Commissioner Kraft Files a Protest Against the Action of New York City Govern. ment in Appointment. to the Evening July State ¢ mmisstoner John EB. Kraft, the Dem». cratic member of the Commission, at a tng of (he Sate Commission to-du 4 @ protest against the action of t Munte!pat Commission of the City New York The work of the present Municipal Civil Service Cammiasion of the City ol Now York as approved by the Mayor has been more destructive of honest sevice than anything that ha tr tae ayatem ¢ the law ractec in 1884," aye the protest Kraft charges that it and ave been disregarded by the ent in making appoint: m He pays "In 190) the former Commisnion ‘held only 1 itive examination, vip gineer in the Department of Charitie while during the first flve month thirty-one fon-competitive ex Jone have been held 191 there wore six positions exemi ay vote of clty comaieslon ‘During the frat five the of there were 17% positions exempted vote of clty commission, and approved by the Mayor, and about three hundred other positions have been flied’ oy dl Tect appointment of new parties to the ervice instead of filing the places by promotion as they should have been ————— AUTO WRECKS WINDOW, SPRINGFIBLD, M. » JULY M.Con | 14) Vi] Seevioe WHERE THE PRISCILLA STRUCK THE POWHATAN. built in 184. 8 was bought United States Government for during the Spanish-Am used, as a transport by the > partment under the name of Resolute. She was afterward transferred to the War Department at a valuation of $250,- 0 and renamed Rawlins ‘Tae Govern- ment sold her for #200,0% and her name was again changed to Powhatan wh River night to-diny h was in line steam: off Point for repairs The steamer Powhatan, ton with the Fal ser Priscilla Tuesda Judith, arrived here at Erie Basin She has a tremendous h —just how tremendous is Accompanying jjlustration. The Powhatan was originally ktown he Qld Dome 000 n her bow hown in the the line, y | MAGISTRATE BRANN “LOSES LEAKY ROOF Employed Plumber to Repair It— Plumber Went for Solder —Plumber’s Stove Started Fire—Fire Did the Rest. ad left his solder at the shop and that he had to go back for it. (Time charged to the Magistrate), Before going for it, however, plumber lt his charcoal stove and set it under a stairway. It took him about as long a# it usually taker a plumber to Ko to the shop, when working on time While was gone stove set fine he house aid burned the leaky root of and with it the top story. ‘The Magistrate returned just as the taal fire engine was leaving the house. ade Hkured UD his toss at $2,000. and was ing the Het when the phimber, yf older, came whiatling Jew York ity the hon-compet marin “Durl | the kinds of brimetone do Mngintrate Brann, of Yorkville Court, the poaffold of 4 house serpey rye grosaman Frederick H. dillette. of chug | employed & plumber to go (o his home Gity, backed through a plate-glans win. | ut No Manhattan avenue, hy easy gurte ie ae ea | repair the root, Ldke mo kle partioular one remembered that he you want here?’ demanded the May "Oh, 1 ust ame vp to mend the root, Well, Magistrate Brann took hij and him where the root Set Ue igaee cutrped the plumber. aa hal teen, and. then early threw. hi the all ia bg * The explo- | ‘up the slopings in order tc carry the air in its proper channel again. “Through the explosion proper it is doubtful if many were killed, as 1t | the | rican war and | the mine or transformed it into car called ‘fire damp,’ and is deadly. pletely. cauce of the explosion I cannot exact! sion of fire damp in the sixth right h monly known as the Klondike. caused by the after “Our mine offic 1m p. the mine fore whose name I do not krow, curred. were wiown town by the ferce of the “They, with the exception of the bosses, were overcome by brother.” OUTLAW TRACY Eluded Deputies After to Board COVINGTON, Wash. July 11.— Harry Tracy has performed the mar- yellous again and has slipped like a phantom through a cordon of guards at the mouth of Sluice Creek, fought a battle with the deputies and is now in the timber. In the fighting none of the depu- ties was hurt, though when the out. law fired twice at T. F. Crowe he was so close that the man was burned by powder. There is some reason ‘to belleve, however, that Tracy inim- | self was wounded. When uarkness fell Tracy was thought to be securely penned on the | point of the western bluff, where he had been concealed all afternoon. | | Though the guards were stationed , thickly, one being posted every fifty | feet, he eluded them and travelled up! the roadbed of the Palmer Cut-OM | toward Covington, five miles distant. | Deputies Opened Fire. At 1148 last night Tracy arrived at a sawmill plant a mile from this place Deputy Sheriffs J, ©. Bunce, Fred Bunce, Galvin and Crowe been sent to guard this point. ities Crowe and the Bunces, father und son, had posted themselves on the rallroad near the saw- mill at the entrance of a big cut near a rise of ground, the Bunces being on the outer guard line. They were hardly settled when they heard footsteps and Tracy soon put in an appearance, When challenged to halt Tracy started to run. The Bunces opened fire, shoo: ing four times each, ‘Tracy ran up the { RS" One or two Official Statement as to Explosion’s Cause. JOHNSTOWN, July 11.—The following official statement was made to- day by Gencral Mine Superintendent George T. Robinson: So far as I can find out now tbere were not more than three or four deaths from the explosion itself. The balance were Retallic, Machine Boss William Robinson, who is my brother, and a Slav, | were back eating Iunch. when the explosion oc- They immediately wert down to the point of the explosion to put after damp. party, and the chances are that all will recover with the exception of my MAY HAVE B TO PROBE ELLIS ~ ISLAND SCANDAL | | John Lederhilger, Chief of Registry Division, Faces an tion. GETS LEAVE OF ABSENCE. During that Time a Thor- ough Examination Will Be ad OkpHis Department— Nature of the Charges. Commissioner of Lmmigration Will- fam Williams has given two weeks’ leave of absence to John Lederhilger, chief clerk of the Registry Division on Ellis Island. During this time the Commissioner will conduct a thorough investigation of Lederhil- Investiga-| ‘MRS. FARLEY SUES HUSBANT |Wife of Harlem Cons tractor and Sister of Mrs. Edward Harri- gan Asks Separetion. LONG STORY OF WRONGS. Couple Separated a Year Age, Wife Keeping the Children— Defendant Qapies All the Charges Made by Wife. Mrs Ida B. Farley, of No. 7 West One Hundred and Thirty-fifth etreet, is suing her husband, John J. Farley, a well-known contractor, in the Supreme Court, for a Wmited divorce. She charges him with cruel and inhuman treatment. The plaintiff ts the daugh- ter of David Braham, a well-known ger's department. The Commissioner wanted it clear- ly understood that this leave of ab- sence was in no sense a suspension, but he admitted that the leave was granted so that the investigation might be conducted without being | hampered by Lederhliger’s presence. | He placed in temporary charge of the department his private secretary, | Allan Robinson, a young lawyer, in whom the Commissioner has great confidence, Rumors of alleged misconduct on the part of Lederhilger have been | frequent of late. They originated in 1890, when a committee appointed to investigate | the man’s work for Secretary Gage) | reported that some of the testimony offered against him, particularly that concerning his inspection of the| man, Henry Rodgers, Fire Boss John | women immigrants, was of such a character that {it could not be in- cluded in an official report. bon dioxide gas. This is commonly breaths suffocates com- “As to the direct y say. We know there was an explo- eading of a section of the mine com- theatrical man, and is a sister of Mrs. Edward Harrigan. The matter came up before Justice Hitrgerald to-day when David May, of the firm of Howe & Hummel, made an eprilcation for counsel fees and all. mony for the plaintiff pending the trial of the mut. The couple were married on Nov. 18, 189, and have three children. Mrs. Farley was only twenty years old when she was married. They separated @ year ago while they were Iving in Twenty-ninth street, near Madison ave- nue Mrs. Farley mentions many alleged acts of cruelty In her complaint. She asserts that her husband frequently came home intoxicated, and on such oc- casions used vile and threatening lan- guage. On one occasion, she says, he found fault with her and abused her be- cause the hired girl did not properly wash his shirts. Mr. Farley was represented in court by former Assistant District-Attorney Unger, He denied the charges made by his wife, and said that about a year ago he and his wife separated under an agreement by which she was to have the custody of thelr children and he was Based on this report, charges were | explosion, formally preferred against Leder-| assistant foreman and one of the fire, nilger, but these were all subsequent: | They were found by a rescuing These der from Commissioner Fitchie. to see them at certain times. Mr. Farley denies having struck his wife at any time. He admits that there | | were differences and that he might ly dismissed on an unexplained or-| Peay harsh with her in his lenets beve language, but declares tnat he never struck her. Justice Fitzgerald reserved decision, ‘IN FIGHT MRS. O'MALLEY EEN WOUNDED.| Battle and Later Tried| Brother a Train. | | -_—— | | Pretty Aline Ellis O’Maliey is back track and a few yards further encoun- tered Crowe. To the officer's challenge! in New York. A week inside the the outlaw coolly responded that he was! gloomy walls of Moyamensing prison a deputy. Crowe, thinking it was the| elder Bunce, started to approaca, when|! Philadelphia has hen Tracy commenced shooting at close) spirit and made her pale and thin. range, firing two shots, The bullets whistled harmle: by, but Crowe suf-| Her brother, Orison Ellis, sent this fered slighty from the burning powder. | bulletin all inquirers: ‘Mrs. O'.falley is very il] and will be con- caped in the Brush. shooting Tracy turned and finea to her room for several days. | and when broken to After t entered the track ness, brush along the side of the waere he was lost in the dark- deputies made a hurried clr ® through the woods to Covington to she recovers she will not be allowed ad Tracy off, but thelr arrival * r el. found that he had not passed the sta- to talk,.on the advice of her couns ton “All that her family desire to say Later It that his | concerning th. treatment of Mrs. escape the north slee of Stutc | Ortatiey in Philadelphia is that it Creek attempted to board one m1 of the freights, grade was outrageous, is heavy point, but tr A reporter for a sensational after- was ru and at speed | noon newspaper who attempted to} thats pinabls to 'bearas get an interview with Mrs. O'Malley Outlaw May Be Wounded, ‘as ejected. He, however, tele- phoned a column “interview” to his paper. Another train passed and the William A. Bilis, Sue nas nothing to sa: was learned rom racy pound at this ning i was u nt 7 Juc tor reports that while running near the sawmill some one called for him to stop. ‘There were no deputies present, and It Is thougat the man who father of the acy Was r IS VERY ILL; BROKEN BY IMPRISONMENT, Says Treatment of Young Woman in Philadelphia Was Outrageous. Notre Dame professor's bride, who gave bail of $1,200 for his daughter and young William Hearin when they were arraigned on the charge of hav- ing stolen $300 worth of jewelry from the professor's brother, brought back Mrs. O'Malley. Young Hearin came alone. “When do you expect to see Mre, the boy was asked. to say that I pill stick to end.” be said with a swag- ger, “and that I will see that justice is done to her. I feel very sorely over the publicity the matter has received and the fuss that has been made about nothing. Mrs, O'Maliey and I have been friends for years. The public doesn't know all, but maybe it will some day.”” Hearin still keeps the two railroad tickets for South Bend and it would not surprise some of their friends if they would again attempt the trip so rudely Interrupted by the police. Mr. Ellis and bis daughter reached their home, 9, 2l Morningside ave- nue, before 1 o'clock this morning and refused to discubs their troubles. her to the called, knd the opinion is advanced thac | he may have deen wounded In the bate tle just before midnight A man thought to other escaped conv! day at the home miles east of Ra wanted food. 1 cinity all day. Sheriff Cudahee and Guard Carson with bloodhounds and a small posse, left Auburn at 6 o'clock this morning for the point where Tracy was last seen, ACCEPT 87,500 VERDICT. ROCHELLE, N. ¥., July 1.-- y Engineer Horace Crosby, of New) Rochelle, father of Frank Crosby, killed | {a farmer in the Park avenue tunnel wreck, de- | ndale, near her, and | clded to-day not to fight the New York | romained in the vl-| Central Rallroad and to accept the | verdict for $7,600 given by a jury in| the Supreme Court. at, White Plains last month for the death of his son. —_— WORK TRAIN THROUGH TRESTLE | SYRACUSE, N, ¥., July 11.—A steam be Merrill, appeared » the sier- SHAKE-UP LIKELY IN WATER OFFICE. Robert Grier Monroe, Who Will Succeed Commissioner Dougherty Next Tuesday, Will Name Several Deputies. EE Robert Grier Monroe, new Commie sioner of Water Supply, Gas and Elec tricity, appointed to succeed Commis- sioner Dougherty, will make some changes among the deputies the various boroughs, It is practically amsured that Mr. Monroe will name George EH. Payne, of No. % Jackson street, Long Island City, in the place of Gustay A, Roullier, as deputy for Queens borvugh. On Dec, 0 Mr, Monroe wrote to Mr, Dougherty urging that Mr. Payne be appointed as deputy for Queeps and concluded his letter with the following paragraph: “I know if I had the honor to be |Commiasioney Mr, Payne is the map [ would (ry to have act for me as deputy in Queens." in road in Ohio, and from 1885 to 1887 was | private secretary to Mayor George Pe- tryn, of Long Island City. Since that time he has been engaged in the real estate business. In politics he js a Fu- slonist. William De Long, deputy for Manhat- ten, will not remain unless I. M. De Varona, Chief Engineer of the Brook- lyn Department, is removed. De Long and De Varona haye been at logger- heads for several months and the Dep- uty Commissioner has frequently dg- manded the discharge of De Varona Gince the announcement of Commis sioner Dougherty’s resignation the of- fice hds been overrun with politicians who are trying (o protect constituents. President “Cromwell, of Richmond, in the Interests of George Scho- the Richmond Deputy, Sheehan has made feeveral calls with a to getting some Greater New Democracy men placed, but has met with poor success Capt, ‘Miles O'Reilly called In the Ine terest o: a laborer “named Brady and auccewied in having him reinstated. Cel. Monroe will call on the Commis sioner lo-morrow, and they will go over the affairs of ihe Department, Col (Monroe sald to-day that he could not at the present time way whut he would do with any of the large questions before the department, but he will be with Coromriasioner Dougherty as much Donsible between now and next Tuesaday, pas n Mr. Dougherty's resignation takéd effect Sunday's wi World. Kaiser Meets reach Prem! CHRISTIANIA, Norway, July ey cio delta tng Er i shovel and seven cars used by the New York Central In extending the Auburn Branch across Solvay to-the main branch of the Central, weut through @ trestle at 10.30 A, M. to-day, injuring seven men, two seriously. —<—<—<—————$_$_— WITHDRAW FROM STEEL SUIT. | The name of Russell Sage was to-day formally withdrawn from the suit in rk to restrain the Steel Corpora- Ton 'trom converting its preferred stock {ht bonds. Hopkine Bros. are also aby Madea MAN of ItsFather, Who Was Only a Duke Before. * &&%% oO A true and touching story of the metamor- phosis of the young Duke of Manchester. Next Sunday’s World