The evening world. Newspaper, January 28, 1903, Page 1

* Goringer, frauds, Sawyer ‘has turned State's evi- | _ON PAGES 10. SEORTING | NEWS ik & Il. i “ Circulation Books Open to All.”’ L. VE quik ten. T Phice acpi A ONE CENT. ——— ; Ss ~SAAYER LAYS BARE WHOLE TAX SWINDLE ‘One of the Prisoners, Who «. Was Said by Jerome to Be Breaking Down, Turns State's Evidence. BAER GETS A SET-BACK. Accoing to a statement made by District-Attorney Jerome in the exami- mation this afternoon before Magistrate Olmsted in the cases of Walter P. Saw- yer, Philip Baer and Nathan and Morris charged with personal-tax dence. Sawyer was in Assistant District-At- ; torney Schurman’s office the greater part of the day and is said to have told yeverything he knows about the con- ‘wpiracy. @he announcement was made by the "District~Attorney shortly after the ex-| ‘amination of the men commenced, W. the equality of treatment of all claims, Mr. Diyver was formerly a Police Jus- : aor a ‘ that Great Britain and Germany should Mamerooner, counes)) for ea hes . irrespective of the preferential tights |have acted together. téce and an Alderman. For many years qmianded a separate examination for his pee eben ea een reece Aelient, but it had deen refuscd, al- yee saphert Hthough he threatened to bring a writ] He caught a severe cold early last Eershition: Ate Gavy appenras furl week. Pneumonia developed rapidly. a arts” ohagintrnt ] Up to noon to-day it was thought that 6 two Springers. ‘The Magistrate | his condition was hopeful. Hie leaves a jasked who appeared for Sawyer, and comfortable fortune to his widow and ithe District-Attorney then said: family. Tee mitt nen no attorney: HA b 2] For more than thirty years Di {hes put himself in the State's hands tand become the State's witness.” * With that che examination proceeded, County Detective Secord going on the jetand. | @arlier in the day Mr, Jerome had in- Wmated that Sawyer was breaking down, Nout he would not tell the nature of the Mnformation he was divulging. Fapects More Arreats, ,, “here may be more arrests in the tax Wwcandal,” sald Mr. Jerome, “I cannot “toll until we get further along tn the in- fweetigation, So far as I know now there gre no women involved In the fraud. fut there {s no telling how far the scope “of our investigation will reach, At present I have no reason to believe that |” fany person higher in office ts criminally |* Uable. “This sort of a grafting game has een going on ever eince there was a tax office, or I might say ever aince there was 4 law permitting the swear- tng off Of personal taxes, | “Last night 1 was incorreotly, informed | {v made the statement that all of the ent swearing off of taxes was acknowledged by Samuel Strasbourger, Phat 19 not true. The gang worked “every one In the tax offive. Direct Charge Aguinst Baer, “Baers office in the City Hali was where the perjurer was instructed what he Was to swear to, Baer usually went te the tax office with him. ~The Bpringers found the rich men prho wanted to pave ther taxes re- (Continued on Bixth Fage. ) DANGER SIGNAL cM ENGINEER PASSED] * British and, Italian ‘Am Charge ‘d’ Affaires c WASHINGTON. Jan, o Ttallan ,and British Ambasdadors .... ae Ger- man Charge d’Affalres at u joint con- forence to-day agteed to cable their |Governments urging a prompt accept- jance of Mr, Bowen's last proposition .to ‘enable the lifting of the Venezuelan blockade at once. In this cablegram, which was sent at {noon, {t was suggested that' the con- sideration of the details of the proposi- tion be postponed until after the sign- ing of the preliminary protocol. LONDON, Jan, 28.—It was sald at the ; Foreign Office this afternoon that there {was no change in the Venezuela block- ‘ade situation, The reports that it will bo raised immediately are premature. | Everything depends on the compliance | of Venemuela with the terms laid down by the representatives of the powers at ‘Washington. The Forelgn Office offi- fais intiinate that counter-proposals for m. Swears in His Own Defense That He Tried to Suppress Disorderly Houses. Police Captain Gannon, charged with having failed to suppress disorderly houses In the Eighteenth Precinct, nota- bly the Webster House, in Fit- teenth street, while he {n command of the East Twenty-second street sta- lon, went on the witness-stand before Recorder Goff this afternoon in his own defense, After he had told about his record, Mr. Oicott asked him if he had not received modals for bravery. “Don't angwer that,” ordered the Re- second stmet housp did you ascertain Webster Ho Was & suspicioun m Mr. Olcott asked. did,” ‘was the reply, ‘and I took to have my I fxsued Instructions to all the Plain-clothes and uniformed men, My men reported to me they could find no Molations of the iaw there” Regarding his presence in the Webster Gt the tne the District: Ator- ed the place, as sworn DY ‘Anststant District: “attorn ey Sandford, Capt, Gannon sald that he did not Ko into the Bice until atter the raiding party got there, I followed on the heels of the raiding part; the Captain test ‘4 "Tt true that they found me ip — Former Seeretary 1 BOBTON, Ja Former Becretary of the Navy John Dd, Bay wes re ported being Turgaret’s Siospltel terday, All indica: tions of pneumonia had oie ka me fee St it ae said india tp w eS 6 OF Bowen:s Proposition: men observe the, yes-| laughed TO LIFT BLOCKADE |, WITHOUT DELAY. ¥ 24, 1903, CROSSING bassadors and German Advise Prompt. Ac- of the three alliéa powers, must delay the withdrawal of ‘thelr ships. It however, understood that the German warships will refrain from entering Lake Maracaibo LONDON, Jan. 28,—Lord Balfour, of Burlelghg, Secretary of Scotland, in a speech yésterday evening at Edinburgh, was the first Cabinet Minister to dis- cuss Anglo-German ed-operation in Venezuela since the crisis became acute. He sald it wag not an alliance for de- fenstye purposes, extending for a great length of time and for all the Inter- ests of tne two countries, but was a mere casual co operation iur a epecift: purpose and tor a limited ume, He had not the slightest doubt that com- pensation which would be satisfactory to Great Britain’ would be satisfactory to Germany, and the speaker was con- ident tht’ this. compensation would prevent any breach of the existing good feeling between the ]ouropean countries and the United States, Tt was best for the peace of the world Pi bee: Surgeons at St. Luke's | lospital Startled by the Case of Mrs. Wendt, of Guttenburg. "BI, the the Ai rept ly Curious neighbors are flocking to the} pol home of Mrs. Elizabeth Wendt, at No. 62 Bergen Line avenue, Guttenburg, N. J., to learn the detatis of the remarkable operation which she had performed in 6t, Luke's Hospital to remove a reptile from her stoi w fi he A mo! nat at Long Branch, N, J., two sum- 0, Mrs. Wendt drank @ glass o1 ater ‘from a natural well jn th yard of one of the country homes. she swallowed the water she felt a p cullar wriggling sensation in her throat | which caused her to cough violent! She suffered from severe choking speile months but thouignt nothin, of the matter until elx months when ehe felt an unaccountadl ys of at a \ @he 4 phyalclan, And toa him that she pelieved phe had ewal- ied u frog, as she ry juld distinctly ‘The doctor @ remained convinced, ending @ small forty the aaviee of mai edi if aie thorities, Mrs, Wendt Luke's Hospital, in thls et lors persuaded, her ump would answer, and Beturday the instrument was applied to ui pf wi the the phy walnns 5 Brought to light a reptile pris abe od eer 10 Siac tbe te thous of | Stl! of these n the extremiti were little | tor END COMES T0 7 Madison street, at 2.35 o'clock this af- ternoon of pletro-pneumonia. came was unable to withstand it. Democratic vote in his pocket up to the time when it was wrested f ever sat on the bench of that court, was no lawyer, and when he was ap- itical leader, there was a prot thousands o} stock and use it for to pf purposes sonal contact. He could sympa whore It interfered with Bidered equity. and he wits onerry Hil der. two characteristios necessary above all else | ‘He did euch Grant in Grant made held on until the Lexow Then he was in dange: PATRICK DIVER Weil-Known Second District; Tammany Leader Succumbs This Afternoon to Attack of Pleuro-Pneumonia. |HAD INTERESTING HISTORY. | atrick Divver died at his home, No, He had n {ll for elx days, and when the crisis the best known man In the Assembly District. \He carried the om him by rs ago, and 6 was laid on ig, Tom’? Fole: former Polic paitical she a Police Magistrate he earned the nitation of giving the most consistent- sensible decisions of any man who inted, being @ saloon-keeper and from that ughing own ends Ithough @ practical polltictan st practical kind, he had a ural sense of jJustive and t persons, who fea would make the ‘bench @ rmit himself to be used for political ple who! their troubles, but no fakir © was shrewd enough to make a fo him. He let law his dispoaition of cases years he worked in the * the loather trade, but being a young man, with an ambition to 4n pulittes, he opened a saloon in Row and’ settled down to be a He was muscular and brive ose days—ard he fought his top of she Tammany heap in District ood work for fight for re-ele him a Poll Mayor fon that of Ueing asked mut lange contra: election f MRS. HARKESON. _ HORSE WHIPPING FOR A PUCILIST Little ie ee Lee, Armed with a Lash, Sends James Kiernan, Sharkey’s Sparring Partner, | Down for the Count. SAID HE HAD MALIGNED HER. James 8, Kiernan, aman of powerful frame, the muscles.of whose arms stand out like gnarled knots of oak, with square jaw and bul-lke neck, appeared ,@8 the complainant against Mrs. Adel. aide Lee—a frall little woman, whose flashing eyes, however, were shot with sparks of nervous energy—before Mag- istrate Marsh, In the Stapleton Polls Court to-day, and accused her of horse whipping. Kiernan, who was formerly a spar- ring partner of Tom Sharkey, the pug- ilist, began his charge doggedly, but when he met the contemptuous look of the Magistrate, who looked first at his burly figure and then at the slender lt- tle woman, he blushed crimson. He stammered on, however, that Mra, Lee had come up to him on the street, and before he knew what she was about drew a rawhide whip from under her cloak and belabored him aoout the face and head. “Why did you do this?" asked Magis- trate Marsh. “Because,” said Mrs. Lee, firmly, de- spite her trembling Mp, ‘because he made cowardly remarks avout my char- acter behind my back And he comes into this court to have me puatshed, He tells how 1 whipped him, like the cur he Is, but he doesn’t tell how he struck me afer I attacked him, He | doesn’t tel! how he would have beaten | me down had not assistance come to| me.” “Did you strike she ‘horsewhipped trate Marsh, “1 aid,’ fighter. “Then,” said the Court, tain a charge of assault against you. will hold you both for the Quarter Ses- sions Court to-morrow,” t woman when asked Magis- Henly replied the ex-prize- | | “1 will enter- | | | prem were late to business. FOC RETARDS TUNNEL TRAINS. ‘As a Precaution Against An- other Horror New York Cen- tral Officials Take Extraor- dinary Safety Measures. DELAYS, BUT NO ACCIDENTS. For the frat timp,singe. the terrible tuntel -wreck on thé New York Cebtral there was juat such another fog to-day ax was ‘then responsible for the loss ot twenty Jivea and the maiming of scores of others. With that leston in mind the officials of the New York Central took every precaution to prevent a rep- etition of the former accident, and they were successful. In consequence of com- Many of hem were badly frightened, but at no @ was any train permitted to run h sufficient speed in the tunnel to have made a bad crash possible even had there been a collision. One hundred track-walkers were sent owt, armed with flags and lanterns, to make sure that no train passed any &ig- hals set against {t. The men stretched along every block, almost clear up to Mott Haven from the Grand Central Station. They were posted on the via- duet as well as in the tunnel. To make | sure that every train stopped at Mott Haven for the special orders of torpedoes were laid on the tra so that if a thous this side of the station, ‘ot past on its way in the explo- rpedo would hold it up and man on foot a chance to cate the orders verbally. ® o'clock, the fog having wal train grown beerved. ed than the rush | ater St train was hebd up at Mott ed to the platforms with Haven. in the Awful cieleageily on the New pe Central Railroad Caused by an re Warning of Danger. PATHETIC SCENES APPALLED THOSE WHO HELPED IN WORK OF RESCU Brook Train, Which Was Teleseoped | ib the Flyer, Were Roasted to Death. tral Railroad of New Jersey tracks at Westfield, N. J., day mark the scene of the disastrous wreck last night. for these little patches of wreckage every semblance of order has been cleared*away, and passengers going-thi the town are unable to determine where the wreck occut The Plaintield morgue is full of bodies of the d The hospital at Plainfield is crowded with the suffering ine jured. It is expected that at least four more will die in ad- dition to those already on the list. | that reauliad from the wreck that they were recognized tye rings or other pieces of jewelry. : The engineer of the fast express train, which crashed |into the local with such dreadful results, clearly disegitat the red and green danger lights set against him. “The engineer is certainly to blame,” said Gener Manager Besler to-day. ‘We considered him a careful man. His record was excellent. The only way we can ace ‘count for it is that he was suffering from a lesion of the ~ brain. He saw the green light, then the red light, then o 3 WEATHER FORECAST. Foreenst for the thirty-six hours ending at 8 P.M. Tha day fo w York and vici Cloudy and » tled weather, occasional rains Mght with fox to-night and Thursday; to fresh variable winds, vestigation this afterndon into Hospital he recommended’ that arrest of fourteen persons. . Di They made startling revelati [4 TO BE ARRESTEG FOR THEIR AWFUL BRUTALITY AT BELLEVUE When Assistant Diétrict- Attorney Garvan completed his in- the awful orgies at Bellevue warrants be obtained for the strict-Attorney Jerome will ap- ply for the warrants to-morrow. Mr. Garvan put seven wit- | nesses through a searching examination, ions concerning the brutal prac- tices of persons connected with the hospital, ied ie Vi sae eewole things, af California, Wh hung on to the lei with the same grip. © | Second felt that he had ‘Oroker and Sulliva snaliy with him and when, they put to beat him in 10 thet was the ‘an Divver x tlie f bo ayes ia th the Mola. Dey aes Hk oh LATE RESULTS AT NEW ORLEANS. eos effth Race—Ceylon 1, Lou Woods a Satin Coat 3, HICKS ARNOLD DIES, oF PAEUIRONIA, x Heke Wen0l, member a the fun of Arai, Constable Gy Smae Serta cond eae 1 eee ta 0.» a o'clock a ie nites -Astori "lived, after.tour days’ iliness with p |red lights on the rear end of the: local train. ‘shut off steam +H bring his train to a stop. But he é {made no move to stop. At that moment he must have ' been stricken with a brain disorder that’ kept him, from irealizing what the green and red lights meant.” j Policeman John Knapp, of Plainfield, took Davis from the wreck of his | shattered locomotive. At that time Davis was conscious, and he made the” | following stajement: HOGG Mag “I saw a green light. Then I saw a red light, but 1 exe pected they would flash white any second. When they didn’t | was past the block and into the other train. : ; From this statement it would appear that Davis “took a chance.” This dread “taking a chance” has caused many a tragedy of the rail. He knew that bis train had the right of way auc supposed that the warning signals 3 | were set to tell him that switching was being done in the yards ahead. a THE TRAIN OF THE DEAD. | ‘The train upon which all those who were killed were passengers 16m | Jereoy City at 6 o'clock. It 1s scheduled to run as an express to ye | Brook, making stops at Elizabeth, Westfield and Plainfield. In the | between statiuns the train takes the express track. Right behind this train che Philadelphia flyer, of the Central Railrond of New Jersey, pulls out of Jersey City. This is one of the regular faat) Rte of the Jersey Central system, running to Philadelphia without @ It is due to catch the Bound Brook express at Graceland, where the an is switched from the express track to allow the Philadelphia uae was a congestion of traffic about Westfield last night, threw the schedule out of order. Instead of switching out there to \the Philadelpnia flyer to pass, the Bound Brook express was pue | express track to run to the next siding and signals were set ag fast train, although !t was not scheduled to stop at that point, ‘adelphia train was to have run behind the Bound Brook express, field, where the track would have been cleared. |4 SMOKE SAVED THIS MAN'S LIFE, | When the Bound Brook train stopped at Westfield, W, commuter, who has a brokerage office at No, 6 Wall street, platform of the rear coach in which he had been sitting, this fact he owes his life, and it enabled him to tell how “L saw a trainmen run up the track tows