The evening world. Newspaper, January 30, 1903, Page 1

, 2 ow be «Bae “ WEATHER=T: to-nignet ai RACING # SPORTS Yormorrerws : GENERAL SPORTING NEWS _ON PAGES 10 & II. { “‘ Circulation Books Open to All.’’ | “ Circulation Books Open to All.” | Rae WHATHMR—Fatey colt toonight and to NIGH % EDITION PRICE ONE CENT. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1903. PRICE ONE CENT, _ THREE MEN INDICTED IN ~TACSWINDLE ‘Grand Jury Holds City Li- brarian Baer and Nathan Springer on Each of Three Counts. ONE BILL AGAINST SAWYER. Accused Arraigned Before Re- corder Goff and Trial Set for Next Thursday — Sawyer to Give Testimony for State. The Grand Jury, whioh thas been con- sidering the evidence in ihe alleged Tex swindle, filed seven indictments to- day with Recorder Goff. Three indictments were found against Baer—two for subornation of perjury and one for attempted suhornation of perjury. Three si ilar indictments were found against Nathan Springer and one indictment for attempted subornation of perjury against Walter P. Sawyer. All three men were arraigned before Recorder Goff this afternoon. Baer and @pringer, through their counsel, Ape Levy, vleaded not guilty to the Indict- ments, Then District-Attorney Jerome announced that Sawyer would not be Prosecuted, as he would be used as a witness for the State, “Mr. Jerome jer- sonally entered a plea of not guilty for \wyer. Upon the application of the jstrict-Attorney all the indictments were transferred to the Criminal Pronch of the Supreme Court where, according to Mr. Jerome, they will be moved for trial next Thursday before Justice Her- rick. Springer and Baer were each placed $5,000 bail. [ . May Prosccnte Merchants, “he announcement is*made that Dis- trict-Attorney Je:ume will go after mer- chants who have mished by the tax-! they como forward voluntarily and testily. / “I. have twenty-three names now on my list," Mr. Jerome said to-day, “and Tam going to give those men a chance to nelp me prosecute the accused men. If they don’t come forward without wailing to be sent for'I ehall certainly take steps to prosecute them,” * Several merchants, wealthy men, went to Mr. Jerome to-day and gave informa. tion against the gang. They fear the inyestigation of the Merchants’ Asso- ¢lation more than Mr, Jerome's inquiry, Officers of the Merchants’ Association eonsulted last night with Mr. Jerome goncerning the proposed investigation, whieh will be a thorough Inquiry into the whole Tax Department. ‘The principal witnesses for the prose- eution against Nathan Springer and Baer, who g: before the Grand Jury ‘to-day, are-George Harcourt, the actor, nd Sawyer, who personated rich tax- payers for a few dollars, Hargourt’s Full Confession, Harcourt has made a full statement under oath, His real name, he says, is George Holmes, and he lives at No. 252 West Thirty-sixth street. He is ahirty years old. Ho first heard of the tax scheme last week from Sawyer, “Hoe asked me if I would take part $n a swindle,” Harcourt sald, “He came to the playhouse a week mgo Wednesday. He did not go into the Aetails of the swindle, but merely out- dined the scheme in a general way, I \d not realize the enormity of the orlme was asked to commit. Sawyer took e to the City Hali and there intro- ee me to Phillp Baer and Nathan Springer. { “These two fully explained the part In the swindle that I was to take. Baer ipaid that I was to go before a tax com- gmissioner and swear off the taxes of Alfred Ludeker, a merchant at No, 170 Rroadway. “KL never heard of Mr. Ludeker until that time, Baer, Springer and Sawyer argued against the objection that I waised and I became Interested, Got but #5 for Mis Work. “I determined to go through with the business to the end, and for 80 perjuring jmyself I got %. attra I realized what I had done Bice laid the whole case before the jot Attorney.” ————_— OMAHA, Neb. Jan, 9.—4President Wort, of the Union Pacific Railroad, to- day met representatives of the striking Bhopmen of that system to continue the fonferences begun in New York three weeks ago. 3 To-day's meeting resulted in the shop- wien leaving without reaching a settie- gpent, and they declare the strike will continued indefinitely All nded over the outhern Facloe DEMAND OVER Senator Hudspeth’s asters Like that The movement started In New Jerse: raiiroads to employ a third inan on ever mogul type, sometimes called “hog” en: The third man Js to remain in the cab to run ‘the engine if anything happens to aster would not have occurred. Senator Robert 8. Hudspeth, of Hud: it at Trenton next Monday night. can look out ahead; the fireman is away back in the rear, cut off from the view (Continued on Second Page.) WHELMING FOR THIRD AIAN If ENGINE. Bill to Prevent Dis- at Plainfield This Week, Has the Support of All Who Value Human Life. y by The Evening World to compel the ry locomotive of the “Wooten” firebox or gine, drawing a passenger train Is sup- ported by members of the Legislature, practical railroad men and the public. with the engineer and must be competent the engineer. Had some one been In the cab with Jngineer Davis where he could have seen the signals the Westfield dis- ison County, Into which all of the State railroads terminate, who is preparing a bill to compel the reform, will introduce | “These mogul engines,” said the Senator, “are so built that only the engineer WALDORF BABY ID A MILLIONAIRE He Is Young Mr. Greene, Who Arrived on Earth Yesterday, the First Child Ever Born in the Big Hotel. FATHER IS A COPPER KING. MR. BOLDT—That youngster can have anything around the place, T'U even give him thé hyphen out of Waldorf-Astoria to play with, if he wants it, THE HOUSE DETECTIVE—Ill keep my eye on that young chap. He keeps bad hours, THE NURSE—I don't care how tong this job lasts, THE BELLBOY—I'd run me legs off fer dat Indian. Mebbe w’en he grows up he'll be a cowboy and inwite me to come out and hunt Buffalo Bills wid him. Hully chee! dat ’ud be great! THE BARKFEEPER—Holy smoke! but that hid has a lot of well. wiskers. THE MILKMAN—Whoa, Jerry! Tet’s see—Waldorf - Astoria? Yep, this is the house, . Of ali the guests who have come to the Waldorf-Astoria, none has created the commotion which attended the advent ot chubby Muster Greene. He didn't bring any baggage, wasn't even registered and didn't have a cent, yet chambermaids, bellboys and porters fell over one another in their efforts to make him comfortable and feel perfectly at home, All these services were performed with the full approval of the man who owns the place, he giving ft out right and left that there was nothing too good in the house for Master Greene. For it so happened that Mr. Greene had done the Waldorf the honor of picking ft out as his first abiding place, The fact that his father, Col, Willlam C, Greene, of Bisbee, Arizona, is a million- aire copper mine owner and cattle king may have had something to do with Master Greene's choice of @ starting place in life, First Waldorf Hotel Baby, ‘This was rather enterprising on the part of Master Greene as by It he gaineg the distinction of being the first baby born in the Waldorf. ‘As soon as Mr, Boldt, the proprietor, heard of the new arrival he weat over to the Colonel, who was bilasfully puft- ing away at a Olig black cigar, and sug- gested that the boy be named Waldort Astoria, - The Colonel opined that that was @ pretty “tony” name for @ ranchman's n, but agreed that #f Mrs. Greene con- sented the name would be satisfactory to him. Master Greene needn't worry about be- ing able to pay his board beta 17 prospects are 00d enough to inspire confidence in the most sceptical Boni. face, All he has to do to inherit his father's entire enormous fortune Is to keep his health and grow to be a creait to his parent who is an old Indian ven years of age and ‘0 'Years. He owns and has {id's elty, neha, TAX MEETING TO-NIGHT, Municipal Ownership Le. Be Addreused by Grout and Others, mines ani money to bu The Franchise Tax and Municipal Ownership will meet in the ban- quet hall of the Sturtevant House to- “ pemoreow night, ag 62,65 ONGN ‘VERDICT STANDS Court of Appeals Rules that ALBANY, Jan, #.—The Court of Ap- peals has affirmed the Judgment of the Appellate Division warding $62,165 to Lottie G. Dimon from the New York Central and Hudson River Ratiroad for the death of her husband, Henry G. Dimon, who was killed in the tunnel disaster in New York City Jan, 8, 1902, The Dimon verdict is the largest ever given in this State in a damage sult of this character. The case was tried in White Plains on April 18 last and speedily concluded, John F. Brennan and (. C. Paulding, who represented the New York Cen- tral at the trial, made’ little attempt to defend the action. J. J. Crennan and J. Addison Young, attorneys for Mrs, Dimon, stated their case before court and jury, whereupon Mr. Brennan, speaking for the railroad management, admitted responsibility for the accident and for the death of Mr, Dimon. He submitted that the only question for the jury was the proper amount of dam- ages. It was brought out that Mr. Dimon, who was thirty-five years old, had a salary of $4,000 a year, and that he had not reached the limit of his earning capagity, The jury took these facts into consideration in deciding upon the ver- dict. On the first ballot ten members of the Jury favored giving $100,000, the full amount claimed by the widow, but after half an hour's deliberation’ they out it to the figure awarded by Court of Appeals, The New York Central Railroad fought the verdict on the gwaund that It was excessive and took [t to the Appellate Division, where the judgment was speedily confirmed. Theh the case was taken to the Court of Appeals. Mr, Dimon Was assistant manager the American Bridge Company and re- eided in a pretty villa in Roohelle Park, at New Rochelle, with his wife and ave small children, The two next highest awards for dam- ages on record in similar cases were made in the Pennsylvania courts. John 7, Martin, a practising attornay in Eas- ton, Pa; was permanently Injured in an accident on the Pennaylvanis Railroad nian, t and was awanded $5,500 damages jam P, Waters, another Pennsy! who lost his eyesight fn an ‘a obtained a judgment for $47,000, FACTORY BURIED IN LANDSLIDE (Special to The Evening World.) SCHENECTADY, N. Y¥., Jan, 90,—A landslide occurred to-day in the west- ern portion of this elty, two of the build. Works being completely buried under the fall of earth. The slide is attributed to the frost Jeaving the ground and thus freeing the earth, at the point in question, from the cliff which partially overhangs tho works. ‘The loss has been estimated conserv- atively at about $25,000, and there Is no insurance on the plant. John Van Auken, the watchman, heard @ rumbling sound and instinctively he ran outside of the building, just saving his life, a8 the next momesit the ave- lanche ' struck the building and structure was a mass of runs. There was no one else In the bulld- inge at the time, but had the accident occur ho! ay oa re, bean Igoe of life, ployment’ bythe Yall ‘of earth” rt time later there would | death was acciaenta! About em- Jury’s Award to Widow of H. G. Dimon, Killed in Park Avenue Tunnel Wreck, Be Paid | RAILROAD FOUGHT HARD.! ings of the plant of the Mica Insulating | the | éarly lo-day and died soon afterward at OVTS, WED UIETLY, OFF i Countess de Castellane, Who Was at the Wedding, Ac- companies Them on Their Honeymoon to Florida. MARRIAGE IS A SURPRISE. TO THE SOUTH MRS. ORSON HOYT, WHOSE SECRET Bride Is the Beautiful Daughter, of A. Frank Richardson and a} Divorcee—Bridegroom Is a! Prominent Lawyer of Buffalo. Spinning toward Palm Reach In the private car of the Countess de Castel-| jane to-day are two happy young per-| sons, They are Mr. and Mrs. Orson| Hoyt. They have just been married, and the worlds which know them so cially have yet to learn about It, Mr. Hoyt is a prominent Buffalo law- yer. Mrs, Hoyt was once Miss Beatrice Richardson, daughter of A. Frank Rich- ardson, the advertising agent. Then she became the wife of Willis Sharpe | Kilmer, of Binghamton, one of the rich jest young men {n the State. She was divorced from him tn 19, desertion and Incompatibility of temper being alleged as the causes for the action. Her mar- riage to Mr. Hoyt is going to start a good many tongues going here, In Buf- falo, In Binghamton and in Washington, for Jt Is practically an elopement. There }1s another girl in the case down tn Washington, to whom Mr. Hoyt has been paying attention, and while she won't have anything to say she will probably do a lot of thinking. According to report, Mr. Hoyt was engaged to be married to the Washing- ton belle. He vistted her just before Christmas, and they had a lovers’ quar- rel. He went back to his law office in Buffalo much disgruntled, But it so happened that fate had something else in store for him. He went to the Christmas ball of the Buffalo Club. Mrs, Richardson-Kilmer was there, He met her and took a fancy to her, but there was no suspicion outside thelr own hearts that things were loofting se- rious. Three weeks ago Mr. Hoyt came to New York. He took occasion to call on Mrs. Kilmer, He saw her several times, and Invited her out. On Jan, 8 they went to the Claremont restaurant on Riverside Drive. They dined well. Then they got Into a carriage and drove to the Church of the Ascension, where they were married, The Countess de Castellane and members of the Rich- ardson family were present. They went to the Waldorf and sald nothing about thelr marriage except to their most intimate friends, Hoyt took a short run up to Buffalo to straighten out his affairs and returned to New York in time to start yesterday for] Palm Beach with his wife and her old| schoolmate, the Countess de Castellane. reatest secrecy wa every one who knew’ of é Es ied = At the Waldorf to-da a that Mr. { had been there and gone, but about his vride the clerks were gum, Mrs. Richardson explained to-day the reason for all the secrecy a desire to avold newspaper notoriety. Mrs, Hoyt has been a life long friend {the Countess de Castellane, They be- acquainted when they were little n in a kindergarten and they Spent the rest of their school days to- ether, both having recelved the finish- ing education at Miss Greenough’s in| Boston, When Miss Gould was married to the Count de Castellane, Miss Richardson was one of her bridesmaids. This wed- ding occurred in the spring of 1895 and in the fall of the same year Miss Richardson was married to young Kil- t the home of her father, No. mer ee Vest Beventy-fourth street, Kilmer was considered in a wordly senec the best catch in Binghamton His father had made millions out of| a patent medicine and he gave his won| ihe most beautiful house in the city to which to bring his bride, They began thelr married life with a great blare of social trumpets, and for two yours Binghamton thought they were ideally happy. “her ugly stories began to creep out. | It was sald that Mrs. Kilmer was very! unhappy. ‘Two years after the marriage she left | her husband and began an action for| divorce In this State. naming sixteen co- respondents. One of them Was a Bing-| hamton girl who left that atald and came to New York to join G. Lederer's Casino forces. She afterwar,) | went to London with the "Belle of New | York’ company and made quite a hit, | ‘After some delay the suit for divorce thiy State was withdrawn and an other sult entered in Pennavivanta in which desertion was alleged. Kilmer did not defend this action and Mrs. Kil mer got her ‘divorce. She returned to w York and has been living with her father since that time. ———— A BROOKLYN MYSTERY. Man Found in Street with Frac- tured Skall Dies im the Hospi: A man whose name is thought to be} Vincent Walbasse was found uncon- | scious and bleeding on the sidewalk at Aulsntic and Bixte aV¥enues, Brooklyn, in the © Seney badly frac in his pockets, skull was a8 found From pane WH r hie oomstett waa t med that he lived at No, jatbush avenue, but he ts known at that number, ns His as bh it is tho Breaking A despatch: to tha Clyde line office from the Cold/Spring Life Saving Sta- tion, eleven: miles north of Cape May, NJ. announced to-day that the steam- ship Gulf Streain, bound trom New York to Philadelphia, is ashore at that point and rapidly breaking to pieces. By means of the long distance tele- phone The Evening World learned that the captain and crew of twenty-one men were taken off the ship at 10 o'clock to- day. On account of the alstance from the @hore of the bar on which the ship was stranded {t was found Impossible to use the breeches buoy and surf boats were resorted to, The high sea made the work of rescue extromely ‘difficult, When the Gulf Stream struck she went on broadside, and as the last boatload of men was taken off she broke In two. A Total Wreck, The wreck was discovered at daylight by a coast guard, who notified the Iffe- asving station, From what was seen of the ship during short clearings of the fog and by the light of rockets, she ts probably doomed to total destruction She is heavily laden with a general cargo, and from the fact that wreckage | of her freight 18 already coming ashore {rls supposed that she broke up badly when she struck, Jacod Swain is the captain of the Gulf Stream, which left this port yesterday for Philadelphia, She was one of the few coasters that cleared In the fog. Capt, Swain had made the trip hun- dredb ‘ot times, and had no doubt of his ability to reach the Delaware Capes. : Lost His Bearings. Evidently he Jost his bearings halt way down the Jecsey coast. The south west wind blew him ateadily toward the shore. and he struck on Hereford Har, @ short distance from the Cold Spring Station,. The noise of.the breakers on the’ bar was doubtless the first intim tion the captain had of the proximity of shore, for during the night the fox was so thick that it was impossivle to the length of the s! It Js poasible that the ma Gulf Stream was disabled and Capt, ‘Swain ‘could not keep bis ship headed out to \At the offices of the Clyde tine tt was said ‘that all the information in hanc wag contained in the bulletin from the life-saving ‘station. The officials said MARRIAGE HAS COME ‘ainery of the | that | TO LIGHT. SAVE CREW OF 21 FROM SINKING SHIP. Gulf Stream, of the Clyde Line, Goes Ashore Near Cape May, and Is Rapidly to Pieces. that the Gulf Stream Sout st ship of-the best coaster ‘type, and that she would undoubtedly hold together long endugh to allow of the rescue of the captain and the crew. She had a full equipment of life-saving devices. No estimate could be given by the Clyde line people as to the probable North America from Delaware Breakwater made every effort to get the steamer off. The wind was blowing a gale from the northwest. Has Eventfal History, The Gulf Stream was bullt in 1861 for a Southern transportation company run under the name of The North C 1 When war was declared she 5 She was captured by Northern war vessels while trying to enter Charleston Harbor and Was placed in the Northern Navy, her name being changed to the United u ship Queen, She was anchored off Atlantle City during the big bilzgard of 18% and rode out the storm, which drove many other Vessels ont to sea and oa the beach, 0 In & wreck off Barnegat 1 down a private yacht, STORM WARNING UP FOR COAST GALES. The local Weather Bu the fo ng from Washington: ‘ Observer, New Yorks ‘Warnings for it winds are display the middle and south Av ‘The storm be followed to- day by high northwest winds along the and south At. antic const. ‘(Sigmed,) HENRY.” WEATHER FORECAST. thirty-six M. Satur- y and yi- 1 much colder rday} brisk to for the YOUNG WOMAN LOST IN STREET AND CAN'T REMEMBER NAME The police of the East Sixty-seventh street station have a young and pretty woman on t remember where she lives. heir hands who is lost and can't She approached Policeman Reid at Seventieth street and Second avenue this afternoon and said she was lost. * Reid took her td the’station-house and the sergeant did his best ir and aban the Womalh’s memory She said at first Maggie, er, that she lived on First aven ié-Jogephi.—After she-told th Jaf court was discharged to-day GANNON CURSES THE JURY Whit CONVICTED nl + —=__ ‘a Former Police Captain, Found Guilty of Neglect of Sworn Duty, Breaks Into In- vective When Verdict [s Announced and Refuses to Be Silenced. oe Damns District-Attorney’s Office and News: papers as Well When Led Away to Await Sentence in the Tombs---May Be Impris- oned for a Year or Fined $500 or Both, Bs James Gannon, captain of police until yesterday, when he was dismissed from the force, is & bad loser. He was convicted of neglect of duty in the Court of General Sessions to-day and rose up in wrath against every one connected with his trial. He cursed the jury, he cursed the Assistant District-Attorney, who prose- cuted him, he cursed the reporters who wrote the accounts of his trial. Red in the face, scowling like a maniac, snarling and growling like a mad dog, he \arned here and there yelling and hurling oaths and threats at every one in sight. ‘The last heard of him as he was led downstairs to the Tombs to await his sen- tence Monday he was barking and snap- ping in a perfect fury of rage, ri 6 ra The jury had been out all night. Gannon had expected at least a dis- agreement. He was charged with failure to supprces the Webster t which was alleged to be a disorderly house, while he was in command of Hast Twenty-second street station. Although “broken” on the same practically by Commissioner Greene yesterday, his attitude to-day, that his conviction was a great surprise, and although the jury made a recommendation for mercy, this did not keep him from heaping abuse on their heads. cae AS THOUGH HE SCENTED IT. When Gannon was led into the court-room from the Tombs he wore the dogged look of a man who had nerved himself up to face any e His jaw was set firmly, and when the jurors fleld in and took thelr j Seats he lowered his eyebrows and glanced at the foreman with fiaehing. eyes. ; When the foreman arose at the direction of the clerk of the ‘court Gannon also started to his feet, but was forced to sit down by @ court officer. Then the clerk asked the foreman if the jury had agreed upon a verdict. | PRISONER'S PROFANE OUTBURST. | “We have,” sald the foreman. “We find the prisoner guilty as charged, but we unanimously request the Court that he be treated with mercy.” Gannon turned almost purple with rage and, leaping to his feet, fairly | shouted “You — cowards, you'""—then he turned toward Assistant District-Attore ney Sandford and smothering an oath, said: “I suppose you are satisfied now, you cur, you,” i Before he could say any more two court officers pressed him back ip his seat and Recorder Goff rapped his gavel for order. $ Then P. J, McManus, the accused policeman’s counsel, asked the Court — | to postpone sentence until Monday in order that he might produce Gannon’s | record and affidavits testifying to hie previous good character, | “Damn it, sentence me now!" shouted Gannon, “you have been hounding $ me for two years and | demand sentence.” a. Recorder Goff again beat his gavel upon the bench for silence and then | said: Nie | “Mr. McManus, I will accede to your request, as I feel it my duty to (Continued on Second Page.) GRAND JURY IS)” _ FOR OPEN SUNDAY ++ ing the Sale of Liquors Between | and 11 P., M. on the Sabbath. January term by Ie corder Goff, Foreman Cudaby handed up to the Recorder an indorsement of |t the bill submitted by District-Attorney Jerome to the Legislature which alms to | amend the Raines Liguor Tax law. “The Grand Jury is of the opinion,’ reads ihe presentment, “that the pres- ent provisions of the law, whereby It 1s The Grand Jury for the ese “The present system ie culated to create and sustain 4 tem of blackmail, It tends ta our public offlcers, expec f It tends to degrade In the Nouor trailhead to ¢ political freedom ¢ engaged in the retail Hawor made unlawful to sell Hquors on Sun-jcity, The present law day lo places other than hotels, leads | tail Navor dealong to fo great evils” it has come to. our | dino umes knowle: that there |e pei in. feembly a bill the pul Koh |ewoh ons na wc “ |