The evening world. Newspaper, January 27, 1903, Page 1

GENERA L SPORTING NEWS t _ ON PAGES 8 &% f FOUR BAUGH IN MONSTER Prisoners Accused by Dis- trict-Attorney Jerome of Impersonating Property Owners in Swearing Off, Taxes, ee FOR WORK OF FRAUD. One of the Men Arested Is Philip | Baer, Librarian of the City | Hall, and a Friend of Doblin. fin tho arrest of four men to-day Dis- ttrietsAttorney Jerome declared that he tym geoured the perpetrators to one of ,{the bimgest swindles ever practised in {iNew York. | Mhe alleged swindicrs made the Pax | Office their basis of operation in {m- personating bona-fide tax-payers and @wearlng off personal taxes in the in- terests of the real tax-payer, who pald : for the deception. Whe District-Attorney, hearing of the “plot, assigned W. K, Seoord, one of his | adiinty detectives, to ‘'stand in” with the gang. He was taken by one of its members to tho Tax Office, where he impersonated a Maiden lane jeweller, gad dnutho,{nterests of the latter swore | "off the pereonal tax. }j <. | Gat Pay From the Gang. J. «= Then the tool recelyed his pay from the gang. The money was paid over to § him in the presence of concealed wit nesses, and the District-Attorney says the evidence is conclusive. i ‘The four men arrested are Walter 8. | @awyer, Nathan Stringer, and his Beo-'| ther, Moses, who revide at No. 9 West They Faigned in the Centre Street Court lato ‘to-day, and the Stringer brothers were + held in $4,000 ball each. Sawyer was shheld in $1,000 bai! for examination. The men are charged with subornation of perjury. . The fourth man arrested is ‘One Hundredth street. were ar- ‘ Philip ‘Baer, the librarian of the City Hall. How Fraud Was Worked, “Phe plan of the gang, sald the D's- + trict Attorney, was to secure the names Of @ taxpayer from the books through ‘the insrtumentality of the man on the inside, When a member of the gang would ap- “proach the tax-payer, tell him that ‘through certain influences he could be srelleyed of paying the tex imposed by ithe department, ‘The swindlers represented themselves 488 oMciais of the Tax Department, The ‘WDistrict-Attorney has knowledwe of hun- “reds of cases in which the tax-payor | bald the gang well for the service ren- *derea. +, ‘% am aware,” said the District-At- » torney, “for the holding of the men, “that the the scheme of swindling has been in ® progress for many years, and that hun- _ Mreds of tax-payers have contributea “#0 the eang’s success, ) "Dkknow of one man who through the pmachinations of the gang was enabled jt Swear off @ personal tax of $860,000. ‘Phat was the biggest of the many in- dividual swindies. They range down to | $20,000,"" said the District-Attorney, . when minking the application WEATHER HER FORECAST -|WHISTLING BOY COMMITTED. DEVERY aa AT THE POLLS. Sits on a Coffin Box and Sur- Duty for the Election of a State Senator. PROUD HE IS A BRAVE. As Devery Asks His Lieutenants to Hustle He Pays His Respects to the Highbinders on Fourteenth Street—Whom Does He Mean? Policemen going on watch at the poll- Ing place in the undertaking shop at | No, 296 Ninth avenue before daylight lies aay, ralasaversd a corpulent man sit- | ting on a coffin box at the edge of the |Sldewalk, He was wrapped in deep thonght and a long overcoat. “Hello, Sports,” sald the man on the coffin box, re a little late, I've | been here for about an hour.” The policemen recognized the voice Jand instinctively they saluted. The lowner of the volce was William 8. Devery, Tammany leader of tho Ninth Assembly District. He talked with the |policomen until the election officers came around, and then cast the first vote in the contest of ballots to choose | ® successor to the late Senator Trainor, | of the Sixteenth Senate District. | Devery had been up all night. H To the Bed for Bin. | After casting his vote Devery went to | ‘ais home in West Twenty-eighth street and retired. He had cast the first vote | and he left the rest to his leutenants. “I want all you men to get busy fo Peter J. Dooling,” he told his follower last night. ‘‘As soon as Dooling found out that Justice Le me the real leadag of the | he sent mea check for $250. inth Districc Pouf for the Highbinders. | “You people have been vindicated {1 |the Supreme Court. Justice Leventritt said that the highbinders down in Four- teenth street can’t dictate to the voters of the Ninth who they shall have for ‘their leader. I'm your leader and I | want you todo what I tell you. Get out ‘and hustle for Dooling, even if we did |fight against him in the nominating | convention.” Perhaps {t was because Devery's men | remained up so late last night. At any | rate, there was very little hustling | | being done in the Ninth District up to late afternoon, The poling places were | deserted. | ‘Trapped the Saloon Men, In view of the fact that there was no particular interest Jn tne election | the saloon-keepers of the district made no attempt to lve up to the law re-| quiring all saloons within a quarter of | 4 mile of a polling-place to close on ection Day. Many of the saloon- | Keepers did not know it was election | |**he cagin eve of Capt. Schmittberger jspotted the offenders and he. sent his plain clothes men out to arrest the |faw-breakers, They brought in ten aa- |loon men, all of whom were released the Police Court. Word of the arrival lof the plain clothes men sped around the precinct and the saloons were pretty. yell'ctosed during the afternoon, | pied ah aa, | VANDERBILT 1S DN HIS WAY HERE Reginald, Rey Gackt by Dis- trict-Attorney Jerome, Com- ing Within Reach of a Sub- poena. (Special to Tho Evening World.) NEWPORT, R. 1, Jan, 27.—Reginald Vanderbilt, supposed to be bound for New York, left here to-day. He was accompanied by Mrs. Alfred G. Vander- bilt, It was reported that {f sJerome’s subpoena was still in force he would accept service and leave! the rest to his lawyers, it was further stated derbilt had tired of his exile at Oak- land and had decided to end it, especially as his mother, Mrs, Cornelius Vonderbilt, was returning from abroad and he would be expected to meet her, Moreover, his wedding-day is fast ap- young Van- roaching and he cannot be further em- arrassed in arranging, for it With the departure of Reginald from Oaqland, it ts for th time in many Weeks clear of mus oil ave sone to New Mrs. Vander! But, rk who is Terurning” from abroad. whole party is expected back here ae urday, David Dunn, the fourteen-year-old boy, of No, 65 West Forty-fourth street, who was committted to the Bellevue Hospital from the Children’s Court on | prises the Police Coming on} TAX OWINDLE i i Mi THE FATE Ot Home Secretary, Acting Upon King Edward's Suggestion, Commutes the Sentence of the Boer Fighter. PUBLIC PRESSURE FELT. Believed Now that Prisoner in Deference to the Expressed Sympathy of the World Will Be Released in a Few Years. LONDON, Jan. 2%7.—Col. Arthur Lynoh, convicted of high tréason, has had the death sentence commuted to one of im- prisonment for life. By the terms of his sentence he is condemned to penal ser- vitude, Inasmuch as the prevailing sen- tlinent of the civilized world has been 80 aroused over the case of Col. Lynch, pardon, with leave to get out of tho country, in a few years. f It was not expected that Col. Lynch's ventritt had declared | 25 wel) us in Ireland, to take measures ‘of death, | treason invariably carries with it. case would be decided upon so quickly. was not found guilty untll last Fri- , and arrangements were being made the United States and <Austraila, in to secure a commutation of the sentence which qonviction for high Whatever may have been the senti- ment of the Government. it 1s doubtless true that these movements in other countries in Col. Lynch's behalf had a great deal to do with the decision in his favor, It is not likely that such a prompt decision would have been veathod “Mite not been for outside pressure. Just what the effect of the commuta- tion of Col, Lynch's sentence will be ts 4 matter of discussion !n England. ‘che Radicals assert that it is a temporizing measure that cannot fall to have a bad effect with the Irish people. Those who are disposed to recognize the claims of Ireland to some extent say that it shows that the Government Is disposed to be fair, Irishmen in London belleve that it | | 1s a recognition of the growing strength of their cause. May Come to America, The movement set cn foot in various sections of the world for the relief of |Col. Lynch ts likely to take a turn now |looking to his release in the near fu- ture. It 4s not unlikely that be will go to the United States if the Government decides to allow him his freedom, Col. Lynch, who was born in Australta of Irish parents, hud been in South Africa for some time previous to the outbreak of the Boer war. He was In- strumental in the formation of the Sec- ond Imsh Brigade, and his name was signed to a number of chivalars calling upon Irishmen in Cape Colony to take| up arms against the British Govern-| ment After the treaty of peace had been, signed the people of Galway elected Co! Lynch to serve as thelr representatly in Parliament. He wes advised by his {friends that Jt would be dangerous for| him to return to this country, but he professed to belleve that the amnesty extended to the South African rebels embraced him, In addition, he claimed to have become a naturalized citizen of the Boer republics. His people insisted that he should re- turn and tako his seat. He remained in Paris for some time, finally deciding to come to London and take his chances of arrest. Immediately upon landing he was arrested, charged with hith treason. ee IRISHMEN TO SEEK PARDON FOR LYNCH. New York Irishmen are not entirely satisfied with the commutation of Col. Lynch's sentence go life imprisonment at penal servitude, Roderick J, Ken- nedy, Chairman of the committee valled to consider the project of holding a meeting to protest against Col, h’s conviction, said this aftern: ammutation of Col, Lynch's tence is not a surprise to us, but we donot consider it sufficient. We did not think that England would put him to death, but a sentence to penal servitude for life amounts thing, “If Col. Lynch is put in an English prigon and compelied to work as pris- oners sentenced to penal servitude are opliged to, he will be dead in @ short time. We'do not think it Just that thie whould be done, Our efforts will be bent pure a further reduction of Jan, 22 to be examined ag to his sanity, Was sent to the Manhattan State ine sas te Ban, mitted at thi it ot was al rr ai in erie in 18%, me conn Halted that spies fy facet cont maou be, a i ot aa dt ie naa COL. LYNGH it is believed that he ill be granted a| < ;| bolling coffee over a gi gown caught fire eaming through to about the same| foo: AMBASSADOR M’CORMICK’S CO URT DOOSLOOHOGHHEHHHHE-6-HHH.H ® 999990400800 O0OO4 ey ooo 24909 e & DRESS THAT AMAZES RUSSIANS. OFSFF56HH9HOHHSD ODHDODHOY ry g HE'S Got us TEN To A PULPSKI' PVQDOOVIDDIADII®IDIROPIBG DT FI3-95-9 2489-990 29 9.909. > a s ® |Montesquiou Dreamed of Embodying a Tom- Tom Funeral Dirge in Clothes, and Now Another's Done It. (Special to The Evening World.) ASHINGTON, Jan. word that sartorial W mick has vhanged all that. St. Petersburgors in all his fast recuption. when he wore the following wonder clothes; A cocked ‘het, parenthetically described in the cable de- festooned from the front and back to the apex with golden rosettes with riobons attached, such ag aie awarded at dog and horse shows. A row of golden stars, as big as seven-year-old star fish, circled his collar, while from each a great golden steamship dropped over the Chivago chest and shoulders and back. Those in the back were caught up under the arms and looped In true lover's knot in front, No cont like that was ever seen In a European court, so the The sleeves from the wrist to the elbow were circled with great ridges of gold braid, while on the upper part of the sleeves were attached fanciful figures In spatches as a dream, haws communication says, Japanese gold embroidery, great auk and, other mythical items of natural history. Mr. McCormick 18 originally from Chicago. of a wealthy manufacturer. well-known in literary circles. Nocking to St. Petersburg to feast thélr eyes upo: the wonderful court Suit of our Ambassador, Robert 8. Mc- Cormick, formerly of Chicago. Up to the time of Mv. McCormlok's departure it had been the custom of our diplomatic representatives to wear only civilian dress unless they were connected with the army or navy, though Clifton R. Breckinbridge wore silk hose and knickerbockers at the Czar’s coronation. The Reathetic Ereiehviah Can't - Fezensac Had. Compete with the Sartorial Splendor of Our GChicago-Ine spired Representative in’Russia. to Austria, He was once an ardent student of Oriental mys- Ucism. It is said that he got the pattern while in spiritual communication with the soul of @ seer whO-lyed in the early. ‘Wayaiot the Chinese ampire. . - %.—The State Department hax artists from all over Eur are " When a description of Mr. McCormick's court duds was read to Comte Montequiou-Fezensac to-day he swooned in the arms of his dear friend, M. Gabriel Yturrl. When he iinally recovered he whispered that one of the great ambi- tions of his Itfe was lost to him—that of translating the harmony of an ancient tom-tom, Hindoo funeral dirge, into clothes, omelet he expressed his despair in liquid syllables. “Gabriel, as my exquisite palate tastes the gentle har- monly of this omelet, a purple mist such as folds sadly Around che passionate hues of an Italian sunset floats bs- fore my eyes, filing my soul with a pale gow of despatr. “Your arm, Gabriel, support me, for I see the si ting shadow of the departing glory of my—Oh, narsh words!—of my clothes-poems, For what ‘has now Decome of my pa- Jamas nocturne, my alter-breakfast triolet, my luncheon mphony, my dainty tea rondel, the thropping verkes of my ‘alking suite and the sweet dirge of my funeral froci. Yes, a man ratsed among the coarse sounds of pigsties and the unbiushing ugliness of Wetern barbarism nas wrested all perfumed wreaths of laurels from my marvellous brow, Gabriel, I am crushed; I fall like the wounded petal of a rose. Tho pollen of my fame is being caught in cruel «ephyra and brulsed under the coarse boots of a man who knows naugnt of the dream my s of aesthetiolsm. “Gabriel, my smelling salts, and sing to me my last saffron sonnet. ‘Oh, Robert, Thou Art Divine,’ for it may soothe the Mutterings of my heart.” But Mr, MeCor- He first burst upon the startled Chicago glory at an after break- representing the dodo bird, the He 1s the son He ts about fifty years old and He was formeriy Ambassador WOMAN AFLAME RAN ABOUT STORE Dodged Clerks in Agonized Rush Until She Finally Fell Burned from Head to Foot, While Her Screams Caused Panic. Pa A oe as om “the self-coufessed perjurer. who testified that Lemuel E! tHfrown into a semi-panio an ambulance surgeon carried from No, S7L Fulton street a woman screaming who was #o badly burned with pain, that she will probably dle, No, 611 Fulton street ts of the shopping district, woman is Mrs, Fanny White, #6 Carton avenue. a big haberdashery a: At noon the girls Bhe ts Mrs, io was so wild that until she was @ fell to the oor, Bath roben, blankets and everything were ubed to h her, their eftors were Jn vi so badly burned that else hand; amother | t the! ht took e fem lance Brookiyn eecenital” Bomel @ fire-alarm simultaneout my district all at sane ‘omen crowded to the polleo had atabiat ed when heard the outand that has been “ret to Make an ‘of hi ‘him simply because he is an inted at the Hoff. night will con or e epeedy release,’ leores New ‘ans 8 caenegrasier os soda Wada 6 ioe Stra White The ai had been burned that there Was not @ her body unl poxered with @ A Hiceat th was called from the y. gine#, ambulance and and a wagon-load Of pollcemon dashed through the shop- f she was corried out to on a wretch unburned vinta “coud not be the * hospital Mrs. White JEROME SAYS TAX SWINDLE WILL REACH INTO MILLIONS Late developments in the Tax Department swindle inuicats that the gang has been in operation /or-years. The District-At- torney deciared that the city had been swindied out of miilions of dollars. Philip Jiaer. librarian of the City Hall, who is one of the prisoners, lives in Tax Commissioner Strassbourger's dis- .trict and is well known to the Republican jeader. Philip Do Quig induced him to offr a bribe of $5,000 to Concreseman Peaslae is a warm personal friend of Bae*., Avtar LATE RESULTS AT NEW ORLEANS, Fifth Race--Floyd K. 1, Mosketo 2, Peat 3. ° Sixth Race—Ahumada 1, Marshal Niel 2, Benson Caldwell. to-day when in the heart The injured of No. employed in GAS KILLS SALOON-KEEPER. Joseph Smith: thirty-five years old, the owner of the saloon at 102 Centre street, was asphyxiated by gas in his room, at No. 117 Leonard street, where he boarded, to-day, the gas burner having been accidentally left open. Cornelius Fitzsim- mons, twenty-seven years old, Smith’s brother-in-law, who was. sleeping in an adjoining room, was overcome by the gas, but recovered, At 2 o'clock a lodger in the house named Frederick Herman told Mrs. Flight that he smelled gas coming from the room where the men were, Herman.and the landlady broke open the door and found Smith lying dead in bed. Fitzsimmons was on the floor of-the alcove unconscious, Policeman O'Rourke, \of the: Elizabeth sisal station, was 4 and Coroner: etl, The,Coroner is a physician and he managed to:révive Fit2simmons. ” ™ Mrs. Hy Hh said feat Beh inahia the’ habit of going to leep wi je gas turned low in\his ‘room‘anditis een that the flame” h i ‘was. accidentally blown’ out, allowing the gas Popeenlan + eng a ha Hats the store, line bart f skin on When he had recovered sufficiently to eat a lily 5 j not present when Doblin was examined and know nothing of what tran- | he had political relations,” VERDICT IN LEGULER CAGE a DUE IO-Mott One of Trying to Bribe Him—No One Will Be Held Responsible. Examination Develops Bitterness Between: Representatives Wheeler and Roberts, Ques) tioner Seeking to Establish Latter Cone’ gressman’s Interest in Holland Submarine — Boat Company. Special to The Evening World, WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.—With Lessler’s “‘lle direct” for Doblin before, the Naval Affairs Investigating Commitee, the inquiry into the alleged Holland boat bribery case reached its last stage to-day. It is understood that the Committee will announce its verdict in the 3 Lessler case to-night. The findings will be that a bribe was offered to Lessler by Doblin, but that no credence can be placed in Doblin’s testimony, and that Quigg’s connection with any improper action has not been shown, F Thig is the view taken by a majority of the members of the Committee, who wanted early to-day to drop the investigation where it was. When the investigating committee resumed to-day Reresentative- was recalled ot the stand. “1 desire to deny as unequivocally false the ftatemietns made here yee terday by the witness Doblin,” he said. He then explained how he came _ Who “saw’’ Doblin when he came to New York} on Sunday? to send the telegram “‘to keep this confidential.” He said the matter was: then before the sub-committee, and there was a desire to keep dt secret, “Doblin came to myhotel,” said Lessler, “and I told him T had told the committee of the whole submarine boat business. ‘That's terrible; that's terrible,’ he said, I said to him to keep up his nerve, that all he had to do was to tell the truth before the committee.” Lessler then repeated his story of his movements that morning. He said he had breakfasted with Doblin; that Doblin ‘had told him he was politically ruined, ¥ * “I felt for Doblin's serious position and went in co see the Speaker, and ; it was agreed that Doblin’s statement should not be made public. I then ~ went to the Capitol and telephoned my secretary to bring Doblin up. I was spired with Doblin. “| wired Doblin to come here. Doblin wanted to go home after his testimony ang we went together, There was little talked of. He said something about the law as to his immunity. There was little sald about it. I never saw him from the time he got to New York until he reappeared here yesterday, “T want to deny the statement of Supt. McCullagh that I sald there was but one member of this Committee ‘I could trust.’ It is untrue,” During his examination of Mr. Lessler, Representative Butler insisted on referring to Doblin as ‘‘Joblin.” “J had no conversation with Doblin as to what he was to tell the abs Who “saw’’ Doblin when he came to New York on Sunday? committee,” suid Lessler. “I was alone with Doblin when I told him he had ‘to go before the committee, After breakfast my secretary was present, 1 was alone with Doblin in a cab driving to my hotel later in the day.” Questioned by Representative Rixey, Lessler said; “I always belleved Doblin to be a warm personal friend and one willing to do anything to further my interests, He was employed about the County Court, where many things of a confidential nature are given out. “T am at a loss to understand what he did yesterday, “! did not want to have Doblin’s name given to the press because I did not want him to be pounded by the people in New York with whom WHY HE MARKED IT CONFIDENTIAL, Questioned by Representative Kitching, Lessler said he marked bis telegram to Doblin “confidential” because he regarded the entire matter as secret while pending before the sub-committee. me,” said Lesser, “s*iold each of them that, Foss and Dayton were tor gether when I told them, I thought it was before Christmas, but it & since been fixed as between Dec, 12 and Jan, 1, “I first made up my ‘mind to inform the Committee when I did so, came right out.” Doblin in his testimony said Lessler told him he had “blurted it “Dobliv has been a very useful man in New York,” continued “He has veen used by them, and when through with him they