The evening world. Newspaper, January 13, 1903, Page 1

( iv 2 etre; MW HHGtion was denied And an ON PAGES 10 GENERAL. 3PORTING NEWS & Il. EDITION PRICE ONE CEN BLUNDERS O PROSECUTOR M0 OSBROW District- Attorney Fails to Ask Questions of Importance About the Killing of “Dimple” Lawrence and . Clarence Foster. COURT BRINGS OUT FACTS, Witnesses Describe the Finding! of the Bodies of Young Foster | — and the Girl, and One Says Foster Had a Wound. (Special to The Evening World.) RIVERHEAD, L. I., Jan. 13.—With | Dut one Juryman to be selected, Justice | Maddox at 1 o'clock this afternoon | resumed the trial of Louls A. Disbrow for the murder of Clarence Foster and | Dimple Lawrence in Tiana Bay June, When. the Sheriff tolled the court- houre bell at 12.45 o'clock the big room Was filled to ‘its utmost capacity. | ‘There were many well-dressed women in court to-day, most of them from out of town, friends of the Dishrow family. | J. S. Lawrence was one of the arrivals] to-day. He was in court early, i When Justice Maddox convened court Ne told the crowd that there must be no demonstration of -.ay kind. It required only a short time to se lect the twelfth juror. After one or two talesmen had been excused Chai 8. Vail was called. He was satisfs tory to each side, and was sworn in. He Is the only fishevman in the jury BOK Lawyer Miles asked that the District- Attorney elect on which count of the indfotmeut the defendant was to be last | exception was allowed. District-Attor- ney Smith then opened the case for the le. i We will show you.” he said, “that when Foster's body was found it bore aces of the conflict. We will show| you that Poster was killed by a blow on the head. We will show you that the Wound on the head was inflicted ‘dur- ing Mfe. And there will be other cir.| cumstances to show that, Foster was! Mead before he struck the water. Mr. #mith told the jury that h y t he would show that Divbrow, after the crime, had) prepared for Might, an th he talked gnoney on Boaus eneakae nat ob- Hee inlerrupied tie 1 lot. torney, taking exoutt lon to Histtlot-At. shout ee eneck: Mr. mith ay embarrassed and s- bie danmuage, — Mr. Smith | talkev and extremely nervous, ® ‘poor Kirat Witnens Cutled. Pranols-J. Hawi nos diss raer| kins was the firat wit je is & surveyor, and testified to Measurements ‘he’ had take ones Dimple" Lawrence Was found” and where Foster's body was found, ie Spe x made measurements of the Tinnells J. Stowara Hand, of Riverhead, tilled photographs ieatton tke {ioq photograph he had taken for the A Point for Disbrow. Jonn MoCaffrey, of ast Quog u found the body of Foster, wasihe Met Witness, . His testimony was rather fas Yorable to the defense, inasmuch as ho fItoro that there mas ‘a depth of eight eet whero he saw the body, whereas the ot tae ie heen Resgriing all along a aeoh ac any 1s Po more than four je next wiiness wi near whose ‘house Fosteras boas Washed up, Ug the testimony of man who sbrow and Mr, uire Tustico Maddox announced short Intermissions for Tunehean and oe Lawrence, was Rierist Attorney: con trict-Attorney.” the {account to mention her visit to him. j The note was put in evidence, It wan in Mra. Martin's handwriting. It was a very pscullar coincidence that at this vtage of the procesdinas Mrs, Martin's ‘baby, fn an adfolning froom, et up a lusty how! will | Ter PRICE ONE CENT. | EAST SIDE POOR WAITING IN LINE TO GET FUEL | AT ONE OF THE COAL SUPPLY YARDS IN MANHATTAN. BABY LOSING IN FIGHT FOR NAME) j Testimony of Mrs. Martin’s Phy- sician Tends to Establish Husband's Claim that Child Is| Spurious. “ | IMPLORED SILENCE. SHE ‘The testimony teken after recéss in the matter ef the application of Dr. John Macleod Martin to have expunged trom the records of the Bureau of Vital Statistica the record of the birth of 4 child alleged to have been born ta Mre, Martin on June 23 of last year, was very strongly in support of the doctor's contention. Dr. John M. West, of No.-71 Wost Forty-ninth. street,” was called to te. standby Dro Martin's lamyer. Dr. ¥ testified ‘that on or about, June 6, 1902, he received a visit from Mrs. Martin, who told him #he was about to become a.mother. After’ an examination Dr. West toid Mrs, Martin she was mis- taken. “ “Please fay Nothing.’ Subsequently Dr, West recetved a pote from Mrs. Martin in which she state: that Dr, Martin had returned and was clreulating all sorts of reports concern- ing her. She besought Dr. West on no On cross-examination Dr. West said he fixed the dale by the fact that his wife had gone to the country on 12, and Mrs, Martin's visit was day following, He said he did not know Dr, Martin and had never seen him prior to the hearing. ‘Phe baby was in the court-rocm for a few moments this morning. She looked like all other blue-eyed and dark-haired babies, and divided her time by alter- nately cooing and crying, much to the amusement of the crowd present. Then Mrs, Martin took her out into an ad- joining room, where a nurse, Mrs, Lena P. Rickert, tovk charge. ‘Dr. Martin resumed the stand to-day and submitted to the cross-examination of Lawyer Lewis H. Reynollls, who is the attorney for Dfirs. Mamtin. ‘The questions put by, the lawyer tended to that Mrs, Martin had ©cen badly treated by the Gootor during the period she see with alm. “Tan't it a fact that you refused your wife money iter the ne ries! of lite? Dr. juirmed under this aay senate that’ he often refused ‘mone: “Ipid not Mrs, Martin support you at he time you were . studyi: in th, ‘ollege of Surgeons in London eh ti a Dine Ls) { bellove Ist. me once or twice.” gh {oPyou refuse’ t0 prettcribe for we her « neral ton! at Pause quits, Senlow. what Sw the PeasLor with Ia idn't you examine her?" 'No."* # wt) ihet, the pre we gonduct for a to prefaribe’ withaut, exsanint that beginning Ro-morrow court Session until 10 ortosie Pragg waee Willis w. Wells, thet Jet out the’ rig to Foster, Di Rebukes Prosecutor, Jehhe op Dados ‘Was clearly upset with ‘his exarmination of atte Hi severe tone wh trial for one Abother ‘crime rime # bogus checks Disbrow {sai a: after the tragedy) | wif of Tiered point after point the District. et ot tying fo sumtin itary s ita Cod sweater, Whinens, wore prado! oevelle fe iestined that when he got cone the batten were hairpins and (,doseph Tilton ‘testified about the nnd. eee itera te no ose = raha blood ‘wy stre Praca ange the District- was in the impo" po ‘and sold ne pew a the ie" ie fon "en a4 times when rhe Featina” of on Lawrence. yet cha: Ing a aay admitted. that dt rt . Martin h was no! ana ia's ina. he had refused fo perm! an outsize dosor to attend his wn Sr nax-eaMe nation ye Bab aot ex: alned why he thought the baby epi Tous’ He denied tha ait had offered the midwife money to ear that the ciild was not born to. aire. Martin, bus .ad- mitied. that he. When” he visited: the imlawife., oHe Jawts seen wife in the hospital. ‘Originally bis pa Ao were. a) ause he did not hear of the birth wid the infant until three weeks after it happened. HITS AT AMERICAN GRAIN. BERLIN, Jan. 1L—The Bociety of Grain Dealers, of the Hamburg Boerso, has published the following: “Renewed complaints against the in- ferlor quality of American shipments of wheat sna corn have been made to the board: of xan ig clatter, there fore, intend to in make & protest to the ‘American, pr hangs in oF: remedy th ped of President Baer's denial of a independent operators to holc mitted to control the market figures: NEW YORK HELD UP BY THE NEW COAL COMBINE the face of the figures obtained from most reliable sources. See the figures on con ments to New York to-day and shipments before the independent operators were, per: FOR $125,000 A DAY. combination between the railroad:coal operatorg and the lup New York for $10 perton of coal counts for little in ship- | and not rob New York of $123,000 a day. Look at these | January, 1903, NEWARK FACTORY BLOWN T Explosion Completely Washington Street a Is Blown Off. NBWARK, N. J., Jan. factory on Washington strect, this city was blown to pieces, The wrecked building is at No. 3' pled by the Weeciington Street Japann to have been Killed, have been seriously injured. 18.—There was a tremendous explosion in a y, this afternoon, His head was blown off. WOMAN CRUSHED TO: DEATH. | Canght Retween Pwo Cars. Wailay sacking (Cant A constant stream of visitors called at (Speqal to The Evening World.) pak: {tho house. Their anxtous tnavtiries WASHINGTON, Jan, 13—Fearful of belt ‘abla cas QD 9 | (NEWTON. N. J., Jan, 13.—MMra. George | were met with the reply; “There tx no IN, Jan. 13,—Fearful o} ng un prevent 9 Daluea, twenty-fi years old, was-in-) hop, Lord Charles Beresforg. ac- | amendments to the bill to rebate all duties on coal for one year, Blame ee vs wy the ‘ af the badiy, | companied by his secretary, pituts: ome publican leaders to-day postponed action until to-morrow, when @ nba Rallroad here tosay, She was} mander Chetwynd, caled. Mr. Hewitt! w Buildi coq | DASsINE Detween two ch: er aback | cua the Britieh Admiral were ola| 2@ brought in’ preventing: the offering of any amendments, © recks a Building in| tsr-ca 9 nici tho Englishmen left. thetr| Payne, of tne Committee on Ways and Means, intended passing the rats car’ was attached Weg down, fers) of nd One Man's Head She was rauabt pat je cats ant crushed: ta death, ee DIG “UP SECOND SI SKELETON.| Laborers Uncarth Se a Bonen in Brookly Taborers digging the excavation for} the foundation of tho extenaign of the Brooklyn ‘Hall of Records came across ‘The entire building 70 Washington street and was occu- ing Works. Sidney Knight is known John Neudrick is known to e) oundation of §he present Hail of Hecords, e A few days ago a skel tombstone were dug up near e corner and a SUICIDE DUE TO KAISER'S WRATH Lieutenant - Who Sani Sank the 'Ven- ezuélan Ships Shoots Himself on His Way.Home to Ger- many. */HE HAD BEEN. RECALLED. BERUIN, Jans 12,—First Lieutenant von Lengerke, of the German, cruiser Vineta, whose death on board the pas- senger. steamer Hispania before her ar- ival at Bremerbayen,was reported on Baturday Jast, committed suicide. Aocording “to the oMfclal report he snot himself with a revolyer in his eabin.on board the steamer while near- ing land. It was added that Lieut, yon Langerke was returning home after hay- ing been geriousty {11 while in the tropic A xumor popularly clireuiated is that he lost offictal favor because ho sank the Vénezulean vessels captured at La Guetre and that he was ordered home on that account, —- SAGASTA IS LAID TO REST. me While Statesman Entombed, MADRID, Jan, 13-—-The remains of former Premier Bagasta, who died Jan. 3 were entombed to-day in the ores = King Looks of Livingston street and Court Square. The skeleton’ found to-day was splen- didly preserved. ‘There was a full set of teeth In the skull, ItJs not known that there was pyer a burying ground In the neighborhood. MISSING MAN HAD $2,500. pronto Police Asked to Find a ther skeliton this afternooh : HEWITT'S WILL REPELS DEAT Aged Ex-Mayor Is Very Weak, | but Physicians Believe Great Vitality Will Keep Him Alive! Until To-Morrow. $5 Company. $19 Indep'a't, $3) Compan Coal—Tons, Coal—Tons. Coal~Tons. | Tae Greater New York ... stress 25,000 25,000 37,500 GREAT MEN CALL ON HIN.) Philadelphia. soene) 24,000 — 21,000 ai ; Reston + 6,000 5,000 2,000 , 1,000 New Jerse: — 5,000 a That ex-Mavor Abram 8S. Hewitt will 3 pS Hive through to-day at least, was the New Unglard. Hie 13,750 his aointon ex Dr. E. Lb, Keyes Buffalo ... 2,500 5,000 " ~} Jana his son, D: . Weyes, Jr, who ‘Western States 10,000 28,000 : ~fjard watching alternately in the stek Southern Stat — 10,000 frites room cf the Hewitt house, No. 9 Lexing- ee 45 ‘ — }|ton avenue. Canada ..... 2,500 9,000 “Mr. Hewitt Is very weak," aald the Central New York and Pennsylvania, including elder doctor. “Only his remarkable vi lavge pioportion of coal sold at mines..........° 80,000 —_— .* 98,500 1,500 } | tality has kept him allve so jong, and ehh ma eS A penanaty “ee Pl every: effort is bsins concentrated int fotal .....+. pcebeweetrcrcersarcccseccccce, £268,100 50,000 214,750 ° . _ “5,000 sustaining life as long as possibie.” ‘ : 2 Tr aabiande oie aos , Several tanks of oxygen were : amt] daring the day to keep the venera ex-Mayor allye,.and wile he tas not suffering pain, his breathing has become very labored, All nope for recovery has been given up and relatives do not leave his side. carde ne following official bulletin was ‘a. mains the same as A a no pain. nd ow not, sttonger, iy not pereceptibly wea’ | WEATHER FORECAST. FORECAST. Forecast (or the thirtyeatx M. Wednes- hours ending at 8 V’, fay for New York City and vi- ity! Fair to-night; Wednes ay fair and moderating) fresh westerly winds, becoming vari. abli MOTHER CF BABY MARTIN BREAKS Mes, John M3 Lend, Martin bro! n Missing Since Dee, is. The eee police were asked to-day to send out a general alarm for Fred- erick Abbey, of No. 166 Vine str ep Conn, who came to this J city on Dec. 31 with $2,600 and has not been heard of since. Abbey, who is thirty-six years old, five feet seven inches tall, welghs 160 pounds, has blue eyes, brown hair and mustac! and wore dark clothes, told his wife when he left. Waterbury that he was going to New York to look for work. As she did not hear from him after that, whe came to this’ city, yesterday and, after going to the houses of several friends in Brooklyn and finding that they had seen nothing of him, rhe! not! fied the police. She watd that besides the $2,000 he had several checks and bank-book of fhe Brooklyn Dime Bay: ings Bank, Nancy Klemm Is Mi Nancy Klemm, twenty-seve: 5 feet in height, Lederle denied the’ motion. years old, sitm build, light ‘hair and complexion, no hat, dow shoes iL from 144 East Bighty- Jan. street It is sald she Is slightly de- DISOWNED BY DOWNON STAND ke down while testifying hefore | the Health Department at the hearing of her husband's appiica- | tion, to have the birth of her child expunged from the records. Lawyer Lewis H, Reynolds made a motion that the case be | dismissed because of insufficient evidence, but Commissioner | The baby was bait in and Lawyer, Reynolds pointed out the similarities between*the mother and child; calling partiour , lar attention to the color of ‘the hair and, eyes and the peculiar, ye formation of the chin and nose. “HIAWATHA” SOLD Commissioner Lederle pdjourned the*hearing until to-mor- FOR $10,000, tow afternoon, 7 ; LATE RESULTS AT Highest Price Ever Paid tor » Musical Compoxition, DETROIT, Jan, 13.—The largest mount ever pala for ® musical compa. jon was paid for the instrumental ece "Hiawathe" by the Whitney-We, her Publishing, Company, vel Fecent out Danie! well he ppncipal ¥ to GC ol A tenants’ of; the. 6-30! 2 a oe Weak One res, | HOUSE al i ning i ropa ie? CW wt pi pean ds eight Fifth Race—Flintlgck 1, Hargis 2, Emshee 3. ixth Race—Gin Spray 1, Compass 2, Two starters, is cane, W'S FRED C,WILLETT INJURED ATA FIRE. One Wind and Thir NEW ORLEANS, ry, brown-st rumors it started in a | spread ‘is | At the same time in the Senate on motion of Jones, of Ne ie CONGRESS 10 LET COAL IN FREE BUT PRICES GO UP en House and Senate Both Decide of Drastic Measures to Curb the Gree of the Trust by Rebates and by In veStigating the Alleged Conspiracy, Operators Tell Mayor Low that The: | Will Sell Anthracite to the Poor Ten Cents a Bucket, but They Prom- ise No Relief for the General Publi Congress dealt two hard blows at the Coal Trust to-day. The first was when the Ways and Means Committee ef the unanimously reported a bill to refund the duty on coal for a year. } The second was the passage by the Senate of a resolution izing an investigation Into the methods of the trust, and empower! committee to call for books and summon witnesses, | New proof of a conspiracy of the coal operators to squeeze New: was found by The Evening World. Its reports, from reilable show that 25,000 tons of the so-called $10 “Independent” coal the entire caitput—is shipped to New York dally, This ie ten times ¢ daily shipments of independent coal during December. The dally sh ments by the coal roads to New York during December were.f87,50 These shipments have now been reduced to 26,000 tons, + The general coal situation in New York was not relieved by | fe ence between" May6r Low and the coal operators at City Hall, dent Baer and other coal road officials promised to aid in the tion of the coal they sell at $5 a ton among the poor at the rate cents a pail, but nothing was done to cut down the amount of- $10 thracite shipped to this city and sold to the general public, day, but when he learned the Democrats and a few “tariff revision” ve licans would undertake to amend it, he determined to wait for the resolution introduced by Senator Stewart was passed, It provides for an investigation of the coal situation’ and the Senate to send for books and summon witnesses. Representatives Payne, Grosvenor and Dalzell were called to the ' House by the President before the House met. It was the intention House leaders to limit the drawback on duties on coal to six mon |the request of the President the time was extended to one year and {i | of a drawback th duties are rebated and will not be collected, This. |simpler method and will not entail so much bookkeeping in the Department. The Democratic members of the Ways an Means Committee ti have coal put on the free list, but this was defeated by @ strict party v | DOLLIVER ATTACKS DINGLEY LAW. Senator Dolliver, of Towa, in answer to G charge that Secrets Shaw had overthrown the law by abrogating the coal dutics, made ams jsational speech, in which he severely censured the Senate for 1st |to act upon the various reciprocity treaties. He sald, in bis opini |entire protective poley of the Republcan party depended upon the out of President McKinley's ideas, He vigorously assailed the “stand pat” element, bothin the. and the party. He sald the Dingley tariff was purposely made higher than in order that the United States might have something to trade on’ | reciprocity treaties, It was only through reciprocity treaties, he |merce of the United States could be maintained, His speech was most sensational, and» during its delivery | Hanna and Aldrich sat immediately in front of him and liste! much attention. HANNA PLAINLY WORRIED. y They were evidently worried and ijl at ease. At the concluston of ator Dolliver'’s speech no Senator congratulated him, Every one im) Senate turned and looked in wonder at him when he denounced the tariff, eaying the schedules were not only too high, but entirely uw in many instances, Senator Dolliver's speech was an exempll Iowa idea of reciprocity and tariff revision, It is the first public of a Republican in Congress looking toward @ revision of the tariff, The Committee reported the bill but will not call i¢ up im the’ for consideration to-day as originally contemplated, the decision | |been reached to bring it up under a rule to-morrow, « BR Re fers | _ ‘NEW YORK IN GRASP OF THE NEW COAL COMBIN Reports received by The Evening World to-day show that City is fu the grasp of the coldest-blooded gang of freebeoters ' speculated in a necessary of life, Signs of the conspiracy haye been evident since the