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GENERAL SPORTING NEWS ON PAGE 10 orld. | “Circulation Books Open to All.” | ||__ E NIGH DITION PRICE | ON CEN a NEW YORK, “FRIDAY. JANUARY 23, 1903, PRICE _ONE | CENT, . MEN IN A PANIC AT FIRE TRAMPLE WOMEN TO DEATH. Dreadful Scramble of the Employees to Escape from the Cigar Factory at . Nos. 155-157 Crosby Street, Under the Mistaken Impression that the] Building Was Ablaze. i 640,000 IN STOLEN FUR RECOVERED. Detectives Descend on Of. ficials of the United States * Fur Company and Seize Skins Identified by Many Merchants. , / INGENIOUS PLAN OF CAPTURE} Sleuth Disguised Himself as. an Out-of-Town Buyer and Was Deadly Struggles in the Stairways and on the Fire Escapes, from Which Life less and Dying Women Were Carried Forth—Tragedy the Result of a Curi- 1 * ous Accident. THE DEAD. \ 3 jt MRS. FANNY KERSCHBERG, No. 8 Avenue B. AW sJENNIE MOSSINO, No. 815 East Fourteenth street. ‘s MARY SPARBARA, No. 5 Crosby street. a THE INJURED. 4 REGINA MARTINA, White and Baxter streets, Legs hurt. if REGINA PASQUALE, Mott and Hester streets. * MARGARITA VINCENZI0, Canal AGNES BERTITO, Hlizabeth and Mrs. MARY VALLETTU. TOINA CARDONE, Roosevelt street. ANNIH MARKIRE, No. 132 White street. Paralyzed from neck down, Baxter streets, ce streets, Offered Articles Valued at $160 for $40. Capt. Langan, the new head of the Manhattan Detective Bureau, made his first important arrest. to-day, With twelve af his men he raided a loft at No, 66 Prince street and seized $40,000 worth of furs, which he alleges have been stoltn from fur stores in Manhat- tan, Brookfyn and neighboring New Jer- sey towns. Two arrests were made. The pris- oners are Simon Filaski, who is al- leged to be at the head of a gang of burglars, and George Cohen, an em- ployee, Both were arraigned Tagore Crane in the Centre Street hen was discharged as there no evidence to connect him with leged ‘fence “in any other ca- pacity than as an humble employee. At the request of the Detective Bu- reat, Filasl was remanded for twen- ty-four hours, Abraham Levy, counsel, was in court. There was no ANNIE COLLINS, fractured skull, fatally injured; Bellevue How TONY FRANQUILLA, No. 267 Wlizabeth street. home. JOSEPHINE JAFINGA. f | ALBERT BEHAN, nineteen years old, Nu. 30D East Ninth street; sen (J Wérely Burne ‘Mevae Hospital. le@ unconscions women at St, Vincent's Hospital. ‘tifled and unconscious women at New York Hospital. An fleeing from a fire next door that did not menace their safety\in the least, three women were killed, a score or more eeri- ously injured and twice that number were trampled under foot to- day in the tobacco factory of L. Miller & Sons, at Nos. 155-57 Crosby street, which runs back to Elm street. The loss of life and injury to limb were due to a panic in the ranks of the Italian cigar-makers, male and female, Men beat women down with fists and bludgeons in the mad rush from an imaginary danger, men crowded women from fire- escape ladders, men walkea on the prostrate forms of women. ‘The fire was in the building at No. 159 Crosby street on the floor oc- * eapied by the New Idea Pattern Company. This firm makes patterns of tis- ue paper. A heavy steel weight fell from a table, struck a cutting machine! a tiny spark it flew BI nas g:auct minor ais ae meee a fire. ‘The windows in front were open and a puff of flame Swept out over the! Street. It was reflected in the windows across the street, and the employees of the tobacco factory, thinking that the fire was in their own building, started for the doors, © CRUSHED ON BIG FIRE ESCAPE. In the panic the men and women who had been frightened fire in the building next door rushed to these fire-escapes. ean ‘eads, they did not know how to lower the bottom ladder. The employees) eowded to the platforms, and the crush camé on the bottom platform, ex- tending from the second-storv windows, The scene there was dreadful. Men fought and clubbed women aid little girls, knocked them down and trampled on them in their effort cle to get out first, Capt. Titus and Chief Guerin secured a ladder and went to this lat. | his form. There, with clubs, they commenced beating the men back. Many were knocked gg:consctous. Women were lifted out of the tengled mass of bumantly and sanded down to the police and firemen below. Whe same scenes prevailed on the platforme higher up, Both Capt. \ Titus and Ohief Guerin were caught in the crush and badly injured. The panic-stricken men pulled the police In among them and it was necessary for @ dozen policemen and as many firemen to ascend on ladders and resoue the officers. ‘HREE WOMEN CRUSHED TO DEATH. ‘While these wild scenes were being enacted in Elm street the excite- jt and panic was as great on the Crosby street side. There a hundred / ttripper girls had started. down from the top floor and were met at the next landing by fifty men, who crowded them back. Women from this floor merged into the struggling swarm and many were crushed 4n the narrow “4 vie Half an hour after the panic had started the bodies of three dead women were dragged from the stairways, ‘They had been crushed to death. ‘The vtaire were still so choked that the police could not get in. » At intervals @ policeman would force bis way into the building and lame & moment later with a dead or dying woman, TRIED TO KNOCK WOMEN INTO STREET, ‘There would have been no Women injured on the fire-escapes but for re ray He men sony in the cigar factory to get to the (Continued on Second Page,) Objection to this disposition of the case. According to tl letectives, Bilaski in at the head Jof the United Stated Fur ‘Company, an incorporated concern, or- Ries purpose of disposing of “et robberies.. There. have of these robberies of, fur hes in’ this section. recently, ‘They have been duly reported to Police Head- quarters, but nothing has been allowed to get into the newspapers about them. One Gang Did All the Work. They’came with such regularity that as soon as Capt, Langan got hold of the Detective Bureau and commenced work on thé ‘cases he made up his mind that one gang was doing all the work. He set his men to watching for the dispos!- tion of the furs, For a time they were baffled. The known or suspected fences in the city gave no evidence that they were handing the godds, and the Cap- tain seemed to be up against it. Finally, suspicion fell on the United Blates Fur Company. Detectives Dugan and Kinstler learned that Filaski, who lives at No. 19 Orchard street, was at the head of this concern, He had a partner named Seidman, For a number of months ‘they had a loft at No. 113 Mercer street, where also are the fur houses of Meiselbaum & Co. and Bach- en & Co. Two Night Robberies, In the latter part of November Mel- selbaum & Co, lost $8,000 worth of ¢urs, ome one got into thelr place during the night) A few days later Bachman & Co. lost $6,000 worth of furs. Their place was entered during the night. ‘Two weeks after this the United States Fur Company moved to No. 56 Prince Street. ‘The robberies continued. J. Harris, of No. 7 Bleecker street, Inst $8,500 worth of furs on the night of Dec. 7. ‘The detectives sent men to Filaski's Place and’ tried to get him to sell furs, but he claimed that he was tled up #0 with business agreements that he| couldn't sell to any one in the city. Ail his business was done with out-of- town’ buyers. @o Dugan took a room At the Hotel Raleigh and posed as a bayer trom Philadelphia, f,J0t of sking und strung them around room and then went among the Hade looking for oarasing, A few days ago he was infa ur loft when a man approached him and told him he could sell him some furs cheap. an was willing, and the stranger him around (o Filask, Dugan in the Raleigh, isfled. when he about the intment for jean ta moet him’ in hs loft. tp-day. Offered $100 Skins for $40, got Kinstler and Mr, Harris to They waited. outside while ugan went In to make the dicker. Fil- @ski showed im four Persian jamb $100 a plece and offered h in, Maris, Identified ine, conte as hin and Filaski was put under arrest minut coats h out on memorandum and he was arrested, (oo. Robberies by Wholesale, The Meiselbaum few later Cohen came in with some and Bachman firms were notified, ied, "along w with twenty others; nd 8 swarm of farrier lott wan idenutying stolen coming. to the detect r © whole Btoc! worth Pi jad been - have shipped tis eking them, ith the marks eat sees Saas ‘i aioe ia 4 were dis- of having come as consplouocus as He borrowed | EX-CONGRESSMAN QUIGG AND PHILIP DOBLIN, WHO ARE NAMED IN THE ALLEGED BRIBERY CASE. LEMUEL ELY QUIGG. (SOME CAFES MAY AUN ALL NICHT Commissioner Greene Approves Applications of Thirty-seven Persons, Who Will Get Li- censes for Five Nights. PHILIP DOBLIN, GOL. LYNGH 1S T0 BE HANGED-FOR TREASD drish Membegot-Parhe Soldier, Who Pleaded Right to Change Naturalizatioa at Any Time, Convicted and Sentenced Speedily. Police Commissioner Greene this &. noon approved’ thirty-seven all-night Meenses for restdurants in variousuptown and downtown locallties ip Manhattan, Some, of these are in the Tenderloin, hut these are of the better class. The grdater umber are situated in Pcl “sgetion “beyond Forty-second rhe Ucenses permit vestaucante to sel) diquor between oi 66 ne Syrtanees before Commie ir An'exceptién wis thade in the case of & taloon in Park Row, which was granted a Heente for nine consecutive nights withpwt further question. The reason for this exce; tien was that the saloon is patroni« punters and news: (ad men who fey fs ged to work at Nigh In Bll-cases where is shown it ranted these short-term pe edits de wen no renewals it Is for the purpose ir conduct that the nae fo be brief. LONDON, Jan. 33.—Col, Arthur Lynch, M, P., who has been on trial for Ligh treason in taking up arms against his country, was found guilty and was sen- tenced to death, : When the trial was resumed to-day counsel for the defense began summing up. There was no attempt to deny that Col. Lynch supported the Boers, but counsel contended that his naturallza- tion was In no way promptetd by trea- sonable intent and was solely for the advantage he would, thus .secure for Journalistic purposes. Subsequently ‘the defendant actively supported .the Boer cause in the bellef that he was a legally naturalized burgher. ian Replying for the prosecution the So- Ucltor-General Sir Edward Carson, maintained that Col. Lynch jolned the Boer army as @ discontented Irishman, hereby committing a most cowardly \d most serious act of tragson.” His alization, continued the Bolicitor- was only a filmsy pretext, Counsel then proceeded to detail the prisoner's alleged acts of adherence to his country’s enemies, Verdict of Guilty. The Lord ‘Chief-Justice summed up very briefly. He sald that if th wa time a British subject Joined the King’ enemigs, whatever his purpose, he was guilty of an unlawful ‘act.” Naturaliza- tion during ime afforded no excuse whatever for subsequent acts: . There was abundant evidence, he said, of overt acts in aiding the King’s enemies, “The only paliation which could be of- fered was that it had been the fashion for some years to treat lightly matters of this kind, and apen had been en- couraged to play with sedition and toy with treason, The nation had treated with contemptuous indifference speeches and aots of @edition; but it was one thing go talk sedition and quite a dif- ferent thing to bear re in the ranks of the country's foes. The jury, after having been out naif an hour, returned a verdict of guilty. When asked if he had anything to say as to why mould not be ae: tenced to death, Col, e@ch of the four counts In the indlat- ement, The prisoner then bowed to the Court and was removed in custody, Lynch throughout bore himself with unfaltering composure. He walked out steadily between the jatiers and past the bench where his wife and other rela- tives were seated. Mrs, Lynch has been wiven permission to see her husband. Lynch was placed on trial Wednesday COL PRICES TAKE ‘A MIGHTY TUMBLE. (Special to The Gvening World.) SCRANTON, Pa., Jan. of coal hes taken a big stumble and now it can be bought at the rate which prevailed before the ‘‘famine.’* Alt" the compantes have reduced the prices, the reduction going into effect to-day. For the past several weeks coa), hag been seiling here at $6.60 and 87 per'ton. “~ The ‘reduced price at the breaker is $3.60° for stove, 93.19 for pea and for buckwheat. The reduction will affect the whole country and bis defense was that he had a right tei ‘change his neturalization at any me, Overruled by the Comre. overruled. by the “Court and follor jon.against Lynch th he served in thy late war in : a8. ter tho ‘war Lynch returned to. Ire- Jani And waa elected as a member of i from.,Galway.. His arrest the first 'man to be tried in tai. for treason in upward of ‘Lyn ap Australian by birth ang waa'ut one the Paris’ sorrespondent of the London Daily. Mail, for. which ela paper he reported the Dreyfus ¢ JEROME SLEUTH, SHOT AT ink “GAT RESTAURANT, NEAR DEATH —eE—————— The condition of Detective-Sergeant Welsh. who was shot in the Black Cat Restaurant at Third street and West Broad- way last Friday night, took a turn for the worse this afternoon, He is unconscious at St. Vincent’s Hospital. Detectie Welsh worked for District-Attorney Jerome in gathering evidence in Capt, Chapman's precinct against dis- orderly houses. On the night of the shooting he was entertaining friends in honor of a comrade whom he had met in Manila. A waiter in- sisted in overcharging him. Welsh was shot in the fight that followed. He iy err LATE NEW ORLEANS WINNERS. Fifth Race—Benson Caldwell 1, Chickadee 2, Ceylon 3. Sixth Race—Princess Tulane 1, Tioga 2. Sweet Nell 3, GREENE TURNS DOWN O’ROURKE’S ALL-NIGHT LICENSE. Among the applications for all-night licenses which Com- In delivering sentemce Justice Wills pald the crime of high treason, of which the prisoner had been found guilty, wae happily rare. No olvilised o had yet failed to punish sev fection from loyalty, whether in open warfare or secret intrigue. darkest hours of his country’s when engaged in @ deadly Lynch joined the ranks of :ita foes and shed the blood of his fellow. subjects Aghting for thelr country, and i the 28.—The price $2.25 LEGOLER TELL Under Oath the New York Congressman Testifies that He Believes the Offer of! $5,000 for His Vote for Submarine Boat: 53 Came from Quigg. Ended It. to make the offer. (Special to The Evening World.) WASHINGTON, Jan, 2%—"I believed then, and believe now, that Lemuel E. Quigg authorized Doblin to offer me the money," deciared Repreayntative Less- ler, of New York, to the Naval Commtt- toe of the House to-day, which Is inves- tigating his charges of attempted ‘rib- ery and intim{dation. The persons he inyolyed in his state- Superintendent of Blections. He testi- fied that Dobiin had made him an offer of $7,000, but on crosa-examination said he did not state definitely that the $5,- 0m was for Lessler, but ‘that there is $5,000 in {t If you can be brought over to their side." ‘Mr. Leasier detailed a visit Mr. Quigg had made to aim at his office in Nassau street, New York. The Naval Commit- tee Is belleved to be holding back & sensation, os it would not hear Mr, Quigg at this time. Lessler In his testimony sa! “At the time I was made a member of the Naval Committee I received word that Mr, McCullagh wished to see me. After the House passed the Naval bill and it was pending in the Senate I re- ceived q wire that McCullagh wanted to see me and I came back Monday night, McCullagh came to my room at the hotel, 1 had never met him, He was State Superintendent of Elec- tions. He said he was waiting, He @ friend in New York who or defeat me and he wanted me to vote for the oil, What He Told MeCallaga. “I said to him: ‘I'll see them in — firs ‘He said: "Then do it for me.’ “I sald: ‘No, Chief, I can't do it.” "MeCullagh said: ‘Congressman, I'm sorry I came. I did not understand the situation.” “Mr, Doblin held the position of Deputy Commissioner of Elections when he made the proposition, but he holds none now.” Doblin had ever been charged with being a lobbyist by the New York Aldermanic | chamber. He said an Alderman had once ordered Mr. Doblin out of a tele- phone booth, Mr. Lessier denied that a handsome young woman had ever ap- proached him and usked him to buy Holland boats. He admitted he was gill on friendly terms with Mr, Dobiln. He said Dodlin appeared before the Nava! Committee at his suggestion. He said he wired him to come on and appear before the court. Questioned by Quigg’s Counsel, Mr, Quigg then asked that IMs counsel be alowed to question Mr, Lessler. Lawyer Nichol, for Mr. Quigg, asked when he first met Dobiin. He said around the County Court at New York. Lessier sald he was a member of the County Court in 14 and Doblin was a olerk or a member, he did not know waich. “Had you any business or soctal rela- tlonse?”’ “No; only a personal friend." Leseler said Doviin “had the run of his office,” but was not associated with him. He was frequently about thp of- fice. Doblin took no active part in his campaign, becoming otherwise em- ployed. Lewsler admitted that he thought Dob- lin would go a long way to favor him, and thought he was doing him a favor by putting him in communication with Mr. Quigg On cross-examination Mr, Lassler wes obliged to repeat the offer made by o dethrone Great Britain from the > ally missioner Greene turned down this, afternoon were those of Tom O'Rourke, John R, Considine, George M. Rappleyea and sentenced to he aalel lone stuf right out a # 4 elty to @ ond ‘named en jouge, | RENE eee nent diem ba tack here ‘ude ct the Shanley restaurant at No, 1443 Broadway. A lincenge for ve es ‘anted to the Hotel ais, Burns's restaurant and Forty-sixth street ‘and the Shanley res: | ex eget street gar ts Doblin, and Lessler said; "Doblin said there's $5,000 in it. He did not ay it was tor me," Lessler Shows Irritation, Lessler wae very arto Sa a ae fore He Would Do as Was Asked, and th At the inquiry to-day before the Naval Committee Congress-which is investigating the charge made by Repr sentative Lessler to the effect that he was offered a bribe: $5,000 to vote for an appropriation for Holland subma boats, Lessler created a sensation. The Congressman testified that the $5,000 propositi was made by Philip Doblin, of this city. He continued: certainly believed then Doblin was authorized by Mr. Qui | believe so yet.” ment. were Lemuel EB. Quigg, State tiparittepdent of Elections John -Mc- Cullagh and = Philip Doblin, Deputy Mr. Lessler said he did not know that] pressed him closely as to the Lessier could not remember. He believed i: was before Congress open a ose believed Dodi authorizé ry r, i4 “at coffer," declared Leatien® so yet, “i did not want to tell 3 the offer when he called, Derso: interest’ in. fering boats, a that a friend. was interested. you evidently know Mines T 1 do.’ ‘The reason I spoke to Doblin it was that I went down under in a boat once and mentioned it m as an interesting thing.’ Representative Roberta asked who he first mentioned may they one recollect, except to Ge lon't recollect, ¢: Foss and Representative Dayton, of i Naval Committee, It was a day or after Congress opened in, Decembaeys ir, Lessler was exceeding! to when the offer was made by Do er when he had his conversation \Quigg. Representative Wheeler, of Hay fucky. broke in with a statedient wasler spoke co after the Christmas’ holidays oie i that he did not pee ‘ative Dayton, gitar steo said’ Mp Loeblor bee ey to him about the charges, but emember when, Chairman Lossler told him prior to the. hel but that he did not pay mush Said’ the Holland ‘boat proposition Maal no come up when he mentioned (tl matter, In truth the proponnl lon. wes the day peter Mr. charges. str Exasler ‘aid Noe. his charges would be eellore He said he told it believing the. mittee would keep it secret. I had become public, he ead, and he now pling to el at he et though hi 4 it woul in, the committee, “It has been “common knowledge eald Lessler, “about the pressure on tl submarine project, and I Intended to the committee, only.” Ex-Senator Thurston, sion of Lessler's testimon: PS called, an counsel for two ulgg to-day. said vara ‘and fret me le had never with Quigg in co: with the submarine boat compan Tad never heard of Quigg in conneation with the company. B. Son, Lessle: secretary, Was) and sald he was present tai vlagh Saleg on Mr, on talked over the oat IN) t vhen McC Same lp nae wien Lessler that he “wanted to tatie fiz ang lool A ot} etal r. Lessler sai nyel Rape. Mr. my secretary,’ is all right He deialied the conversation betweem Lessler and MoCullagh, which Place in Lessler's apartments at Normandie Hotel. Why McCullagh Appeared, Cross-questioned by Mhoreton. he MeCullagh dig not say he app for ¢ nd boat’ peoples but pealed, to him to vote for it on personal grounds, He said MoCullngh was trying to ler to vote for the @ he did not believe reatened, ‘The conversation was Gi} ried on Ina tone of voice. r. Quigg demanded that he be mea to take the stand and give mony, ‘This was opposed by Hep! tative Wheeler, w be presented Ia was stated by Chairman thee im that he fog ing 10 | as be lin had wired come until M that ne be given rhe earlisat Ug to vindicate himself. WEATHER FORECAST, Forecast for the thingy hours ending at 8 P.M. Sat for New York City Partly cloudy to-i day cloudy followed by fresh northwest winds ing orth and enet,