The evening world. Newspaper, November 25, 1902, Page 1

‘Yoved to have some uncanny power over GENERAL : SPORTING NEWS ON PAGE 10 The “ Circulation Books Open to All.” PRICE ONE CENT. ALL MARION AT TRIAL OF WHITE CAPS, Mrs. Potter Tells on Witness Stand How Masked Men In- vaded Her Home and Dragged Forth McDonald and Her- seif, BROKE DOWN THE DOOR McDonald Gives a Graphic Account of How He Was Smeared with Cement and Feathers and Ridden on a Rail, {Special to The Evening World.) PLYMOUTH, Mass.. Noy. %,—London had Ite Jack the Ripper, New York had the Molineux case, but old Plymouth, Stanch bulwark of Puritanism, guardian of the Mayflower relics, cradle of the Yankee, has its “White Caps.” Long before the sun appeared to-day Above Cape Cod and crimsoned the mar- ble statue of Miles Standish this historic county seat, encrusted with salt brine and valiant memory. began to stir. In the opa) Nght reflected from the At- lantic’s bosom and chilled by a breeze that rocked the whalers In the bay, New Jenglandera flocked hither through highways and bywaya. ‘There were rigs, sige, hacks, ‘spring Wagons. buckvoards and silkies, Black horses, old horses, skittish % ring nickle-plated harness, and some with traces of rope. The troi y curs were speeded to the mit, and Ephraim motorinan of Brockton, came in “so darn fast" that a flack of partridges sitting on the track could not esoap) were all Killed Plymouth Is Proud, Plymouth, you must understand, is a town of 9,000 people, a metropolis. Tt is here that the Superior Court, presided over by Judge Robert C. Harris, 1s now trving seven young citizens ‘of Marlon. Who are accused of stripping James Me- Donald on the night of Aug. 6 and deco ating him with tar and feather Plymouth looks with fine scorn upon the poor benighted folk of Marion, a Uttlo town twenty miles distant, and regards thom with dignified apathy, The *candal ccnvilses Marlon and all the county, But Marion does not mind. “This is the greatest senratt have had,” confided Eli Eliveer to an Evening World reporier, the Gardiner-Howland affalr, when Marion lost lis greatest preacher and the highest moraled school teacher that ever swung a birch.’ wo Heck “since They “Wantler Know.” Plymouth is a long way from the Tenderloin. Crime and wickedness are ® novelty here. At jeast they are not flaunted. But when Charles Potter, an honest, .upright mechanic of Marion, testifed in court yesterday that he found his young wife, Clara, in the hands of the White Caps clad only in her shoes and stockings and a singies garment word was passed with wire- less speed and to-day cider mills and corn fields were abandoned in order that Clara Potter's testimony migat be heard from her own lips, “Know Clara Potter! ejaculated El- fezer Heck to the reporter last night as the train pulled into Marion trom Plymouth, crowded with witnesses and principals who had been to court, Well, I swow who don’t?” Tho village had assembled en masse to heat the’ first day's results and when Potter, his wife and James Mc- Donald, the man who was tarred and feathered, alighted together, @ cry of in- aignation rose from 500 lips. Svengall with a Gontee, McDonald Is sixty-five years old, has jderman’s girth and wears a goatee, As a Lothario he would be left at the post in New York. At Marion he is be- women, and the influence of his eye is dreaded, MeDonald was tarred and feathered; this fact is not denied, because Marion believed him too intimate with Clara Potter. It is also alleged that he dis- pensed apple-jack and other forbidden beverages on the quiet, The outrage was enacted within a wtone's throw of the houses of Richard Harding Davis, John Clark, of Chicago; Mrs, Davis's father, Richard Watson Gilder, and many other well-known summer residents. The town people sympathized with EW YORK, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, $1, 000 FOR NEW RACE TRAC Westchester Association Pur- | chases Six Hundred and | Sixty Acres Just Outside Long Island City Limits. TO ABANDON MORRIS PARK. New Plant WIIl and Race Track In the World—Sta Are Announced, Cost Vast Sum The Westchester Racing Association this afternoon that {t had secured control of a site for a new race track on Long Island near the towns of Queons just outside the Long Island City limits, and would begin work shortly on the property. The new track will take the place of the Morris Park Track, which will pass out of existence on Jan. 1, 1904. While the Westchester Association was not the purchaser of the land for business reasons, {t will shortly buy the tract from those who now hold it and whose names are for the present secret, The purchase price was $1,500,000 and It Is proposed to construct a race track announced in the world 1 WHI Have 1,000 Acres in A! ‘The are $60 acres in the tract and the plans allow for‘a seven furlong straightaway course, a mile and a half clreular track and a mile training track, besides the us steeplechase course. The plans have already been prepared for the tracks and the stands and 400 additional acres will be set aside for stables and training: quarters. ‘The new race track will be situated Just outside the Long Island City imits ana near the station of Queens. It is convenient to the rallroad and trolle: and will be built with the idea of being & permanent institution, The State Racing Board recommended that the site be selected and opposed the chosing of any tract In the city limits. The Morris Park property has become #0 valuable tbat the owners re- fuse to renew the lease and will cut It up Into building lots. Stakes Are Announced. The Westchester Association has an- need stake dates for 1903, 104 and and will now. make si Yr an- nouncements for 1906, and racing will goon uninterrupted by the change he State Rac ‘ommission ix com- posed of three members, August Bel- mont, E. D. Morgan and’ John Sanford. nd they have in every way ratified the ng Island purchase. The sale of the land to the representing the Westchester Racing Assocation took place on the property 4 few days ago and was In the form of an auetion RICHT AND TRUE WINS AT 6 TO Sun Gold Beats Gloriosa in Sec- ond Event at Bennings—Red Damsel Takes the First Race. people TRACK IN VERY BAD SHAPE. THE, WINNERS. FIRST RACE—Rea ‘Tribes HIN 2, Damsel Carroll D. 3. SECOND RACE—Sun Gold 1, Glo- riosm 2, Saccharometer 33, THIRD RACE—Artus 1, Maryland- er 2, Dranghisman 3, RACE — Benckart Courtenay 3. FOURTH Rough Rider TH RACE—Right and True t, Earl of Warwick 2, Nevermore 3. SIXTH KACE—Cirous cle 2, Arrahgowan 3, (Spectal to The Eventhg World.) BMNNINGS RACH TRAOK, Nov. 2.— Rain fell all during the night here, with the result that the track was in very bad -condition this being ankle deefi in soft mushy clay. ‘The bad going caused quite a number of withdrawals, Dut as the flelds were very large in thelr original shape, the withdrawals were a blessing rather than otherwise. Rain was still falling this afternoon, so that the afternoon was as mean as it possibly could be. The card would have been a good one under decent conditions, but in the mud 1, Carbun- afternoon, Potter, who 1s an industrious man of unblemished character. Their indigna- don may be imagined, therefore, when (Continued on Tenth Page.) | Is Expected to Excel Any that will excell any other racing, plant LANGER SUIT 15 FOR A FORTUNE. —_——_ Woman Plaintiff, $180,000 Without Interest, If She Lives to Be Seventy. ELDERLY DEFENDANT RICH. | Case for the Defense Begun with Arraignment of Woman Warren B. Smith, of Millionaires’ Club, Took on Trip Abroad. In opening the defense of his miilion- aire clfent, Warren B. Smith, In the sult for breach of contract to pay her $30 a month brought by the beautiful Julie Reel, anger,’” otherwise known as Carlisle E, Norwood told the jury that “the sult, ostensibly for $60, two monthly payments, was really for » fortune. The claim of the dashing plaintift's that Mr, Smith agreed to pay her $200 a month for the rest of her natural life. As Julie is, according to her own con- fession, only twenty-three, she has still n the Biblical dictum about half a cen- tury to live, barring accident. This would mean, at $200 a month or $3,000 a year, about $150,000, without interest. The Colored Valet's Story. A tall, slender mulatto, Willlam FE Hunt, of No. 34 East Hightleth street, was the first witness for the defense. He said he was employed as a valet for three years by the late Louis M. Langer. He sald he first met the plaintiff at No. 304 West Fifty-fitth street. He lived with Mr, and Mrs, Langer at the Lorenz Hotel, in East Seventy-second street, and at No. 800 Lexington avenue. Mr. Hummel took the witness. Q. Did you ever take a letter*to the plaintiff as Mrs. Langer? A. No. Q. How did you address her? A. As Miss Reel. Q. Never as Mrs. Langer? A. Never. Q. Do you swear that you never heard Mr. Langer speak of plaintiff as “my sweet Little wife?’ A. Yes. I swear It. Q. Was he at that time the secretary ofthe Boston and Colorado Mining \Company? A. Yes, The Real Mrs. Langer. Robertson Honey appeared with a doc- tor’s certificate, saying that Carrle Ever. ett ‘as too ill to be tn court and tes- uty. The real Mrs, Langer—Annie E.—who has never taken her e from the pretty plaintiff since the trial began, took the stand. She was dressed in deep mourning. Her voice and manner were those of a woman of culture. She was about marriage between youl A. Never anything of the kind, je separately denied every line of the plaintiff's testimony bearing “upon the alleged conversations relating» to their marriage. He said he had- paid her $700 or $40 more than the $1,900 she had admitted recelving from him. Mr, Hommel Takes a Hand, Q. You never introduced the plaintift to any one anywhere as Mrs. Smith, did you? A. I never did. Mr. Hummel took the witness, and he admitted that he had two gults of upartments on different floors at the Rutland anda house in Yonkers, He also had a suit in Paris at No. uare de l'Opera. peas 9. How did you register at the Metro- pole, in Monte Carlo? A. As W. Suther- and. iene she? A. As Mre. W. Suther- and. Q. ‘Then you were known there ay man and wife? A. Yes. Mr. Smith admitted having written the “o dear little calles letter in which he said “I send you _ $300, send you $300 on the first of February and $: on_the first of ch month afterward.” Q. Why did "You you write will de angry, I know?" A. wanted to break’ the whole thing off, Q. Then why In the same letter did you write "I would exteem {ta favor if you would let me know your. ad- dress, ax 1 would be very unhappy if I thought that you did not want to see me again?’ A. Oh, to end. the letter. The fair defendant here immersed her dainty pin nose In tears, a Means $300 a Month to Young | TRE AMERICAN DOCTORS, + Their Report to Consul Gowdy Shows that the Fatal Shot Was Not Fired by the Woman Herself, but There Is Some Disagreement Among Them. PARIS, Nov. 2%5.—That Mrs. Gore, the) reconstruction of the scene of the trage- ty’ American ginger, did not com-|“¥. says that Dr. Souchet enacted the sched part of Mrs, Gore, sitting at the aide of mit ‘mulcide or meet death by accl- | the bed in the position indicated’ by the dent, Is the verdict of the inde-| prisoner. jpendent post-mortem examination by| Tt was in taking his card case from| table that De » revolver, the the commission of four American ¢oc-| the nixht tors appointed by Consul-General Gowdy | knocked off t Rydzewsk! vy butt at the Instance of the State Department | ¢f Wien struck the Noor and discharged at Washington, made this moraing| Maitre Cruppl sald that when Dr. at the morgue, | Souchet, the meiical expert, and Gas- The American doctors found that the !on Renette, the armorer, were unable to contradict the prisoner's statement, 1902. MRS. GORE MURDEREDSAY CHILD VICTIM OF HIS BLOWS Nora Reen, Aged Twelve, the Brutality of Her Uncle, John Burke. BODY A MASS OF BRUISES, Magistrate Who Hears the Case Regrets There Is No Whip- ping Post or That He Cannot Get a Bigger Man to Lick the Accused, John Burke, a big, brawny man of mid- dls age. was crraigned before Mag! trate Crane in the Yorkville Police Court to-day charged with shocking bratallty toward his twelve-year-oid niece, Nora Reén, The child, covered with brutses and cuts, could barely sup- port herself on her frail little legs as she Iisped to the magistrate a story of how hor uncle had beaten her into a state of unconsciousness with a coal shovel, and then had kicked her about the floor, The prisoner was brought jnto court by Policeman Foley, of the Eighteenth Precinct, and Agent O'Connor, of the Children's Ald @octety. Agent O'Con- nor told Magistrate Crane that last €unday he had been notified by a little girl living in the tenement at No, 414 East Twentieth street, that her little playmete, who lived in the same house, had been fearfully beaten by her uncle and though she was in a very danger- cus condition her uncle would not allow her to have a doctor. Her ody a Monn of Bra Dr. W. Travers Gibbs. the Society's viniting physician, was sent to the ten- ement and examined the little girl. He had found her left arm and hand cov- ered with contusions, the entiré arm being swollen and discolored and the left hand twice the size of the right. The doctor also found the entire area of her frail little back a mass of con- tusions and abrasions. On her left thigh and in the regton of her thigh he found a large contualon, sixtean inches long and cight Inches wide, made up of a large number of smaller contustons, On her left leg there were twelve contui fons and abrasions, each one from one and Whitmen, were present at the ex- Anxlous to testity. bullet entered the pupil of “he 15% | the magistrate turned to htm and sald,|halé to two Inches square, and on her Q. Do you know the plaintiff? A. No.|eye, cutting the lower eyelid, und! “It qs well, You are free head there were several wounds. i Q.Do you know her reputation? | emerged in the rear of the right side of ——————— Biv eg Ie ate ban t (Ghiscton susie XPM Teno head at leas than bale an inet ete-} SPECULATING ON SITE. |, cninlen ail the wounds, and bralses s ee ra vation from the point of entry. The ee, The next witness was Warren B. : Smith, member of the Miliionaires’ (Met-| pody bore no marks of a struggle and Hrokers Offer Property for Ponte | Child's Story of a Savage. ropoiitan) Club ana defendant in this 7 action there were no powder marks at the en-| Office Withont ying Owners, | The little girl then told her story. She The jonalre’s Story, t 2 of the wound, 8s of thr sons who expected to giant Sry oe wblppen Bue arene ia missions for fc h SOSs tac He sald he and Cochrane had been to| ‘The doctora have been given forty: |! ominiesions f Peeve LOLGNGY trea ondary) ocser rans Ld the races together and visited the som. (Government of a site for an uptown ‘ une, Kepe by bre. aUpe tus gnene weg eee aus 4 aie 4 Sve then pn Roscomice are already: doomed to dis. sAboutia erelek on Thursday morning “The ree , ng | ojal report. Mr. Gowdy, in the mean is an a ohatl | something 10 eat.’ Bo we "went to i : met. any Of the offerings | tincle John came home and, dragging . Alter supper I suggested to| time. has ordered them not to give any made without the knowledge of Shanley pp i bs me out of bed, told me to light the fire the plaintify that we should go to my | omoia! opinion on the case. He is sacking and are to be thrown out ‘i ‘ ne apartment, She accepted and we too and cook him some coffee. I went to a hansom jepacureve SNL At my|to avoid a clash with the French ex- L ing arias “he stove and began shovelling tn some Apartment T asked her if she would | Thar veportiotithelAsmenes | This fact came out to-day at the cou- coal, While I waa doing this my little af x : perts. an com 1 uke Nolao; to Hurebe. Mavereany nla mission will be restricted to the pathol-| clusion of a two hours’ conference ta, brother, Johnny, who Is nine years old, | We agreed \tc go. . ogy of the wound and the direction of, the doral Building between Post-| came in the room and Uncle ordered him Q, Did you oak the plaintif to become! the bullet, with no opinion as to the| iste Van Con. © rixenahan |to go back to bed xPMtny other place, "Ay Never! 2 feause of death, burnett, composing a sudscommission | “Johnny began to ery and sald he Q. Did she ever say she would like to] The four American doctors, Messrs ren) renting the ation ’ joneral the|Wantel to stay with ‘sister.’ Then be your wife? A. Never. iS L. Gros, Turner |Poxtmaster-General and the Secretary Was there ever any conversation| 4: J Magnin, Edmund L. Gros, Turner | Pie treasury (Continued on Second Page.) amination, as were also Dr. Socyuet = (who made the first autopsy), at the re. quest of the French officials, and Paquet, representing Mr, Gowdy. ‘The body was brought into the amphitheatre used for demonstrations before the stu- WEATHER FORECAST. Forecast for the thirty-nix hoars ending At 8 P. M. Wednes- day for vicinttys to-night; Wea- followed by clear increas north- back to Russia with all speod. Maltre Cruppl, the Russian’s attorney, ys that he has instructed his client to keep out of the way, as he speaks French so badly that he might de misin- terpreted if he submitted to an inter- view, ‘The lawyer, who waa pregont at the the charge of stealing a ton of MITCHELL WORRIED BY NEWS > ON A CHARGE OF STEALING A TON OF COAL. “Circulation Books Open to All.” Tells a Shocking Story of| told Magistrate Crane to-day that he PRICE ONE CENT, N10 NT 0 ——_—___+4--—_____ SUDD — HTTL Just as It Was Announced a Basis of Agree ment Had Been Reached at Washington, — the Operators Decide that Hearings Will Be Resumed by the Commission. “Divine Right” Baer Declares That the Efforts to Adjust the Matters at Issue Out of Court Cannot Result in Anything—Independent Operators Forced This Stand. ao Soon after a telegram arrived from Washington to The Evening Worl@ this afternoon, announcing that a basis for strike settlement borer) agreed upon by Preaident Mitchell and Wayne MacVeagh in that President Baer, of the Reading Ratlroad made an anonuncement here that Indicates that the settlement of the question will be left to the Roose velt Strike Commission after all, It looks like a victory for the independent operetors who came down from Pennsylvania to-day to protest to the coal Presidents against (ering — the settlement of the questions involved in the strike away from the Com mission at this time. All of the operators united this afternoon in refusing: an invitation to meet John Mitchell and his associates for o tals ore settlement of the strike in Washington next Friday. * INDEPENDENTS MADE THREATS. The independent operators, who control 15 per cent. of the o the anthracite region, have not been considered thus far in the of the Commission. They assert that they have been unfairly and that it will not be right to make a setlement unless something to say about it. If forced into a setlement by L road presidents, they threatened to make it warm for the coal-carrging trust, * At a meeting held to-day at No. 68 Willtam etreet the imbependea® operators formulated their demands. These demands were presented te the coal road presidents at a meeting he'd this afternoon in the Jemey Central Building. At the conclusion of the meeting President Baer, whe had been chosen spokesman by his associates, made this statement: “BEST TO GO ON,” SAYS BAER. “In the midst of the conference a request came from Weshington to the operators of both classes asking them to meet Mr. Mitchell and his }assoclates on next Friday at 10 o'clock in the morning, All the parties | present then empowered Mr. Baer to deliver the following message to the |pwblic through the press: ‘The conditions are such that no substantial progress toward am adjustment can be made by the suggested meeting. The general judg- | ment of the operators is that {t will be best for the present to go on with the hearing. This practically puts the coal situation where it was before the sudden adjournment of the Presidential Commissidn last week. It looks as if the road is not yet clear for settlement. H | eS INDEPENDENTS GIVE OUT | A FIGHTING STATEMENT, In opposing the President# of the coal not only be continued, but eo magnified | roads, who wish to settle the questions to be absolutely unbearable. at jasue in the strike without further, “The hearings before the Anthracite Interference on the part the Com- | Commission present the first op- mission appointed by President Roose-! portunity that the coal operators ever elt, the Independent operators take a! have had of presenting thelr case before NAS ; following state-| the general public, who are really an Ria outlined tt pe ES \¢ the !mwortant third party, since an abstract en eine ane tlepenent at least of these proceedings {s pubs ses ‘i Jorsey Central) Hshed ail over the United States, and ft ODEERIONS “ “is the duty that we owe to ourselves as Building to-ay wall as ro them to prove that the con- PIRGT—We r q ated charges of injua- settlement at ft bu arity and ¢xtortion are abso- basis suggested wot itely unfounded of which the in- the pow perpetrat operators at least propose dents. Dr. Socquet explained the course of the first autopsy and the American pee iy " = a doctors carefully made their own in- AY alk sé iLEMENT iS OFF tion, bi the; GT 0 ew ine isiona. The skull had been suwed in ‘ two parts along the course of the wound Thi {tted the Americans to mak A Pat i measurements to establish the range ot| WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.—News of the statement of the op- the bullet. It was obvious that the] eraig low York that the hearings on the coal strike before range was not greatly upward, as at : i first announced, but was almost par- | the Colmission fi ad by the President would be resumed was allel with the earth, indicating the] panojye surp here, where it was expected that the ry cata Wee caused by an! hole matier would be settled out of court. dhs Mr Gore's Effects, Mr. Gowdy recelved from the State John Mitchell, President of the Mine Workers: Wayne Mac- paparment, unis moming # euuest) Veagh, representing the coal roads. and others who.came to | session of hee effects. Accomlngiy attend to-day’s conference were greatly disappointed by the Oe musle nade itte sige! Vt} turn the situation had taken in New York. articles showed the sim refined Sinai ina ce | tastes of the de i 1 The burial piace of the remains of = - |r. Gore has teen. changed’ to the| NEW SUPERINTENDENT OF KINGS COUNTY HOSPITAL. | Bagneux Cemetery, owing to its being ji i} farian, Mr, Gowdy has . adi lot there for five years, duvinx nich] — John F, Fitzgerald, of Rome, N. Y.. has accepted the posi- site whethee theye mice"! S44") tion of Superintendent ot the Kings County Hospital, to succeed jclde whether they will remove body to America Jasse T. Duryea. Mr. Fitzgerald has for twelve years been su- Se De Rydzewaki as a ed by , i + lor 7 j Ric erratic era enuunved Ba perintendent of the Custodial Asylum for Unteachable Idiots, | ity for shooting Mrs, Gore. He has dis-| a State instilution at Rome. appeared, It is thought his friends — he | have him in hiding and will get him | Michael Holton, of No. 521 West Twenty-eighth street, was | ve mate now. when noe a single witness) \ held in $500 bail in Jefferscn Market Court this afternoon on coal from Henry Stadlander, a coal dealer, of West Twenty-sixth street. ECOD resented already shows ess that we believe that s) wore almost dls: i ofall the the suggestions for it Rultsiiof ‘Qpeule. We believe 1 nat a our part whica THIRD—What w Ay a ¥ w i 1 what this com Y have s hu py " is se nuld be by = allegation n . eve ade by t Heda The Hove statement signed by sion that any mo! fH thes wenty-seven ind ndent anthracite cost sion could rende far jess th verators and el to tbe oa retail proposed fonts. Was out the amount we under pe Ne atthe cherseds Cent to ular “to the un address maade yal presidental "y mise remarks were along ih# n that ar ts plea against any ‘ of unusual r carrylig roads. experic A judgn fn the ‘ finding wil make such declarations as ——— Mitte many, sears. pit ban sp WOMEN AGAINST CROWDING, unlawful practices, oppressio: of no ——__—_ union men, unjustifiable demands and) would Remedy the Car Evil, and other grievances that w have b Incidentally Suppress Mashera, struggling under sin 1000, when oN Leics eii ns tee ting. 9 Chee union first took possession of our prop-| Tem thes various Kosai ah Coan erty ve leme! If, on the other hand, this se has been called on our part or on yo behalf, it will be an absolute and dis-| tee tinct surrender to the Miners’ Union,| Many #5 the troubles above referred to will’ masher “peat,