The evening world. Newspaper, February 21, 1903, Page 1

. or rath to-mtaht, and@ Sunday) ACING @ SPORTS | GENERA L ees NEWS ON PAGES 6 & 7. “ Circulation Books Open to All.”’ EDITION PRICE 0 ONE, CENT, , NEW YORK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, ‘1908 PRICE ONE CENT. JUMPED T0 DEATH FROM SOUND GOAT. ‘Body of Lewis A. Dodge, Lawyer of New York and Boston, Ashore at Newport. - THREE DAYS IN THE WATER. Lawyer Leaped Off the Falll’ River Liner Plymouth on Wednesday Night on the Way): to This City. After being washed about in the waters of Long Island Sound since ‘Wednesday night, the body of Lewis A, Dodge. well known as a revenue law- yer in New York and Boston, was found to-day on the beach in front of the Agassiz summer residence at Newport, au RL Mr. Dodge left Boston for New York on Wednesday night. boarding the Sound steamer Plymouth at Bristol. ‘Mystery surrounds the events after the steamer had got under way, but !t is supposed that Mr. Dodge jumped overboard after darkness fell and his absence wus not discovered. Identified by Cards. The body when found to-day was al- most unrecognizable, but the lawyer was identified by cards found in his pockets ‘There were also in the clothes money, Jewelry and a statemoom key AS s00n as the body had ben found a worknan employed by Prof. Alexander Agassiz called in Medical Examiner Ecroyd, who gave a verdict of suicide, ‘The Medical Examiner took charge of the body and telephoned to Mr. Dodge's brother-in-law at Boston. He directed a local undertaker to embalm the body andehip it. New York Office Closed. M: Dodge's New York office is at No. 49°;Wall street. which was closed this afternoon. lawyer were greatly cunprised to hear of ‘his death, and could give no reason for any desire to take his own life, “STABLE AFIRE WITH je) HORSES TIED: UP. i) q ‘ , Hard Work to Save Frightened Animals in an East Forty- Seventh Street Blaze. Fire in the five-story stable and storage building at Nos, 337-341 East Forty-seventh street this afternoon en- damgered the lives of fifty ‘horses ana the safety of the residents in a block or tenements. The fire originated on the first floor. Btable hands got out twelve of the fifty horses on the second and third floors before the arrival of the first en- gine, The flames were extinguished ulpkiy. On account of the snow drifts ie fite apparatus was greatly delayed, Gne {ruck wot caught in a drift at For and Third avenue and da nc ‘Rot reach ‘th e fire. QUEER JAG OF MR. KEARNS, Attacks His Wife, Hix Cat, His Dog and tl Plates, Chairs and _Jqhp Kearns, a blacksmith, of No, 458 West Thirty-Aret street, pulled his wife’ batr, Then he bit pieces out of the dinner 4 Plates, He. sawed the legs off the chairs and He ‘threw there at his wite. “He ate the flowers off her Sunday hat, He stock the house cat in a milk jug. eis ABER the jug out the fourth-story “s = gt the dog in the stove oven. That's why Magistrate Pool in the jeat, Bide Court sent him to the Isl tures monte to-day,” ‘ne Tsland Me surely Was a Guleor Jag," sald the KILLED HIS FAMILY, felde, MIDDLETON, Ind., Feb, 21.—John M, Thornburg, @ prosperous fermer Hving |N siz miles from here, has killed his wife, two children and himself, Wor gome months he had been known » wre ey uusdund, but it wae not eceasary to confine him, He ly became violent Mot his wife and children, and imeelt. Anthony Hope Coming Hi LAVERPOOL, Feb, 21.—Anthony Hope was a passenger on the Cunard line wteamer Campania, which wailed from port to-day for New York, Lh On a eae ng ork Asem Pate Washed | ¢ ePrsons acquainted with the | % o FOHLOOGOHHHHHHOOOOHS POGHDDOHHHA-LGOHHHE DH PHO DOHAG, 6.601.960.8506 9:H9-9.0.6.00 CORONER HEILMAN AND JURY, WHO WILL INVESTIGA TE NEWARK | TROLLEY HORROR, INSPECTING POINT WHERE ACCIDENT OCCURRED, LI@POOHHIGH HLH |e oo os RAIDERS STIR UP HORNETS NEST. Detectives Seeking Evidence of Lottery Fraud in the Bronx Attacked by Several Men, a Woman and a Dog. SEVEN PRISONERS TAKEN. Three detectives from the Central Of- In ce—McConville, Peabody and Clark— under the direction of Capt. Langan, had a thrilling experience to-day in rald- ing a “fake lottery game. For more than a month angan |has heard rumors that su was | being cenduoted In the Bronx, but was lunable to locate it. Yesterday, how- ever, suspicion was fastened upon Will {am Torrib, a salesman, of No. Seventh avenue and for thirty hours 5 ;Was watched and finally caught at a five-story brown-stone nouse, No. 333 Pleasant avenue. As Torrib entered the house Detec- | tive Clark pounded after him and forced | als way fn, Immediately Lester Bavine, who lives at that address with his! brother (Bernard and his uncle Lewin| Lavine, tore the badge from his coat and pinned him against the wail. Mrs. Lavine Mstantiy took part in the scuffle, and it was golng hard with Clark when the other two detectives arrived. While Detective Peabody was strug- gling with one of the Lavines a huge dog sprang upon him and bit him twice so serfously that he was removed to the Pasteur Institute. ‘The struggling detectives raised an alarm and half a dozen policemen ar- rived and took the whole household into custody, dneluding Max Simpson, insur- ance agent, of No. 30) Kast Highty- third street. Leo Strauss and George Gackslatter were arrested later at No, 203 East One Hundred and ‘Tenth street, where Strauss has a printing office, According to Capt, Langan the Lavines have swindled Harlem folk our of many thousands of dollars. He says their concern was called the Mexican Lottery Company, of Pueblo, and that they offered a capital monthly prize of $20,000, the Uckets bearing such good, Mexican names as M. Malgor!, Martines Ramigo and Jeromind Roconalx, Capt. Langan says the lottery pro- movers never saw Mexico, nor know the of the skies there. ‘The whole thing was a frau In the Lavine plice were seized thous- ands of tickets and lottery Iterature, while in the printing office were found the plates from which the tokets were POM the prisonera were taken to tho Bast One Hundred and Twenty-aixth treet Station in a patrol wagon, and then, to Headquarters to be to will be arral; morrow in SThe entre ‘Strect. Pollce Court on a @ of violating the State lottery fo. POOR MR. ROCKEFELLER. Assessed on n Million Personalty, He Says $150,000 ly All He Has, Wiliam Rockefeller was the only als: tinguished visitor at the office of th Max Dopartinent to-day, Mr. Rockefel. ler was assessed by the Department on $1,000,000 personally, but he told the Tax Commissioner that he had only $60 J cagh, und that his personal pr operty did not exceed $100.0 but like other irited citizens who have pro: nue the axe OMCe he sold tet illing to stand an assessment $300,000, Mr, Rockefeller, has a town house at No. avenu glatmed to reside In Vrankiin Count although he ooo Feveen WEATHER FORECAST, Forecast for the hours ending at 8 PF, M, day tor New York City, vicinity—Snow or rain A Tour to Weshinato Bg screw ah: HERLIHY DENOUNCES STORY OF “SQUEALING” ON CROSS. “Damnable, Outrageous Lie,” the Police Captain Says of the Rumor that He Had Implicated the} Inspector. Tho poltee trouble rumor-foundry Is working overtime and the able hands are tuming out a class of work dis- tinguishable chiefly for its glitter. The Thtest completed plece of product js a full-plated, double-shined, warranted- to-standvthe-acid-test rumor to the ef- fect that Capt. Herlthy, now under in- dictment and suspension, has turned “squealer* and that the District-At- jtorney {s about to prefer charges | tgalnst Inspector Adam Cross. 1 ean say for John D. Herlihy,” said the Captain at his home, No. 239 ‘West One Hundred and Fifth street, to-day, "that it 1s a damnable, outrag- eous le, John D, Herlihy has been in trouble for twenty-elght months and he has kept his mouth shut. This 1s the first time he has talked to a reporter. “I want the public to know that 1 have not been treated right in this, Here come all the papers in the city, with the exception+of The Evening World, and accuse me of being a crook. That is what {t amounts to, because to accuse me of being a ‘squealer’ is to gay that I have done something crooked to ‘squeal’ about.” Not a Mystery, He Says. The venting World reporter suggested that the visit of Capt. Herlihy to As- sistant District-Attorney Morgan yester- day afternoon might have been consid- ered mysterious. “Mysterious!” ejaculated the big Cap- ain. “John D, Herlihy never ‘nad a mystery in hfs life. I have a good no- tion to tell you why I went to the Dis- trict-Attorney’s office yesterday, and I would tell you, but my lawyers have positively forbidden me to speak about my case until the proper time. “X don't mind telling you that T went to the office of my lawyers, James Beheli and Abram Bikus, after I left the Criminal Courts Building yesterday, If there ty any talking to be done about what happened when I saw Mr. Morgan let the District-Attorney do it. Do you suppose that If I had said anything dis- respectful about Inspector Cross or that \f [had sald I would say anything dis- respectful about the Inspector, the Dis- trict-Attorney would keep it back? Not on yourfite.” “Strafht out, now, Captain,” sald the “Is tt t reporter, rue made any charges against Cross?" "You can say, Herlihy,” was the not made any charges against In Cross; that I couldn't if I would, and 1 wouldn't if I could. Work of Ru reply. Fr that you have Inspector straight from John D, “that T have ctor actory. The rumor factory had been working by afternoon, when Cay Immediately the fi has squealed" pt res in fits and starts until late yesterday Her coming out of Assistant Distriot-Attor- ney Morgan's office. the Criminal Courts Building that the men had been in conference for an hour, and that a stenographer was present, lihy was #1 It was said about the foundry furnaces were lit, the safety valve was {led down, the machinery started with a whirl and a clang, and the rumor was turned out, hot from the rolls: ‘Herlihy Commissioner Greene refuses to dis cuss the matter. For a week he has been asked every’ day if charges had BUCKLIN FEARS TAIMLINTHIS CITY Pa of of Canfleki’s Gam- bling-House Makes an Affi- davit Declaring Great Preju- dice Exists Against Him Here, SEEKS A CHANGE OF VENUE. David W. Bucklin, the Indicted man- ager for Richard A. Canfield, does not think he can get @ fair trial in this county and to-day through his counsel, John J. Delahunty, made the first step toward a change of venue, Mr. Delahunty secured from Justice MacLean in the Supreme Court a stay of proceedings to enable Mim to make an application for the change. ‘The application will be made on Marcy Plorida—Cuba—Nassau. Bouthera Raliwi TEE LT ok Mot me et Saat ny Mr. Jerome, ing to the dice” ingly submit That he could not fair trial. jury to try Bucklin Canfeld’s was known Yorker as @ gambling house. against him he would not to trial in beau 5, and will undoubtedly be opposed by In his affidavit Buckiin aya that ow- “popular passion and preju- will- this county. The afMdavit quoted from the address made by Aswistant Sandford in his application for a special Sandford suid that 0 every New It was ae Dictriot-Attorney notorious as a House Of gambling a6 the Waldorf-Astoria was noted as @ hos teiry. The application on Mfarch 8 will be made before the Justice who \s presidin, in Speoial Term, Pa When asked if he would Hke the case Delabunty sald it Buoklin were 4 then the papers would say it w; 's influence. re where it goes, provid tried in Baratoga, 1 would not, Sanfiel ft be where my client oan get @ fair and impartial trial Buck! ndloted on Jan, % as adi been eet for day, bei nite Mattes tet the {miial Branch of the Supreme Ci ourt, but the stay ts granted unl March 3 oes Bucklin naintadn that the house at No. 5 Bast Porty-fourth atreet js not a gambling house? Mr. Dela- bunty waa asked rie, Irae oa, rt. ar of the wide Publicity given to the case seoure a | should be preferred he would make Admits His Visit to Jer- ome’s Office, but As- serts that He Has Done Nothing Crooked to Squeal About. been prefered or would be preferred against Inspector Cross. On each oc- casion he has replied that if cl public unless some very good reason dictated that he should keep them se- cret. A small package came out of the ru- mor factory to-day, When opened -it was found to be the work of one of the hands who labor SY the plece. The rumor was that formet Wardman “Hd- die” Glennon is getting anxious and Ls woing to “squeal. Untrue, Saya Cross. Inspector Cross was seen to-day by an Evening World reporter at the Tre- mont police station. He was asked if he had anything to say about the latest rumors concerning him. “All I have to say is that the tories printed tn the newspapers, so far as I know, are absolutely without warrant,” was the reply, “What were you doing at Headquar- ters yesterday?” jie was asked, “I was there on police business, purely and sim) responded the Inspector. “I notice that some of the papers si that °L ‘wore. a grave expreawian when leaving. If the stories a: on that alleged fact I shall have to. lose some of my regard for the ability of of after. who has charge sald thiv a he statement that Capt. Herlihy has made a confexsion is. unqualified! false, It was built out of ymagination. Capt. Herlihy fession to make and will be trial whenever the District-. wants to call him. They can't maki too soon for us." In John Doe Proceeding, ening World learned to-day, n Intimate friend of an inti: dd of one of the Assistant Dis trict-Attorneys, why Capt, Herlihy went to the District4Attorney’s offlee yeeter- day. He went there because he was suppoenued In a Joun Doe proceeding ‘his John, Doe proceeding ts a ashing expedil 9 Jand an inepec- tor, Capt, Hreriliy was Nestioned at length concerning hie relations with ya- rious inspectors while he was in com- mand of the "Red Light” precinct, proved an unwilling and unsatisfactory witness from the standpoint of the Dis- trict-Attorney. He| Hat CIT LOSES $400,000 SUIT. Appellate Division of Supreme} Court Hands Down Decision} Granting Writ to Subway; Contractor for Extra Sum. CASE TO BE APPEALED.! ‘The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, by a dividing vote, rendered an opinion to-day against the city and in favor of John B. McDonald, wao sued for $400,000 for extra work on the sub- way contract. When Comptroller Grout heard of the decision he sald the case would be carried to the Court of Ap- peals, ‘There are three opinions rendered in the decision, but the majority reverse Justice O'Gorman tn his decision deny- ing @ writ of mandamus to McDonald compelling Comptroller Grout to sign a warrant for the $100,000 asked for by the subway contracto! ‘This money |s for extra work which McDonald says was not in the original contract, and which the Comptroller de- clares was @ part of the equipment, and for that reason the cost should be borne by the contractor. “The fact that there are three opin- fons rendered,” said Mr, Grout, “leaves the way open to us to carry the case to the Court of Appeals rather than have the city pay out $400,000 for what I consider is not a legitimate ciaim. We have cach won a victory, and now the Court of Appeals will be the um- pire to decide the case finally, The city will contest this claim so long as its caso has a leg to stand on.” Justice Hatch writes the majority opinion of the Court. He describes the provisions of the contract between Mc- Bonald and the city, which was entered Into three years ago to-day, ‘The contract contained ro provision for the construction of any ducts, ways or conduits for electric wires. Subsequently the plans were changed #0 4s to provide for such ducts, and this required th, the excavat be made eight inch wider, ‘The original contract, however, provided that the cost of the equipment of the road must be borne by the con . the city only paying for con- _ieyment for chia extra work Presiding Justice Van Brunt ang Jus- thee DicLaughiin concurred with Justice Justice Ingraham and Justice Mebaughlin. also conaurred tn granting the application, but they both wrote separate opinions, HEADLESS BODY The trunk of a of West Twentieth street this a the Morgue. FOUND IN THE NORTH RIVER, hody was found in the North River at the foot The head and feet were missing, The body was so badly decomposed that description was impossi an LATE RESULTS A Fourth Race—Albert F. ‘Dewey 1, Hargis 2, St. Tammany S, Fifth Race—Cogswell 1, Carat 2, 2, Jack Doyle 3. F A MAN ternoon, ble. It was taken to T NEW ORLEANS, “DAY OF MOURNING ND BHODE ELD KIM -5-5496-196O58SO149494666544.9O04 OOORGOGH |Pathetic Scene Witnessed When the Coroners |children was taken up by a Coroner's Jury to-day. |Genera] Manager Young, of the North Jersey Traction Company, declared eT FOR VICTIMG UF NEWARK WREC Jury Visited the Home of Ernestine Miller —Scene of the Horror Is Inspected Carefully by the Jurors, Who Are Pr. paring for a Rigid Inquiry. = Funerals of Three of the Slaughtered Inno- cents Are Held To-Day Amid Impressive — Evidences of Sorrow—Mayor Doremus Is- _ sues a Proclamation Fixing To-Morrow as a Day of General Mourning and Prayer in Newark. ee: The tragedy of Newark’s grade crossing that cost the lives of nine school The Clifton aven' crossing was visited by the jury, where an exhaustive examination was made with a view to the deliberations that will be formally begun on Wednesday. Coroner Heilman impanelled his jury in the County Court. The follow- ing jurors were sworn: James A. Coe, iron and steel merchant, foreman; i. August Goertz, brass manufacturer; Abram Stats, capitalist; Thomas Oakes, cloth manufacturer; Fred Stoutenberg, clothier; Max Sachs, trunk manu= facturer. Several of the panel summoned were excused, as they were stockholiers in either the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western or the North Jersey — Railway Company, Led by Coroner Hellman and County Physician McKenzie the jury, after being sworn, left the court-house and went to the home of Ernestine Miller, — No, 141 Fairmount avenue, upon whose body the inquest will be based, \. a The scene in the house of death strangely affected the jurors, and they left as soon as they could. The mother of the dead girl was heard sobbing and crying in the room adjoining that in which her child's remains were coffined. Her grief is uncontrollable, and it was with solemn faces that. bis investigators turned away from the broken-hearted family, VISIT THE DEADLY CROSSING. ; Coroner Hellman then took the six jurors to the scene of the accident. The gates through which the trolley car took its passengers to destruction were examined, and the ones that have been put in their place were worked by the crossing flagman. Distances were taken, and everything necessary to give the inguisitors a clear idea of the topography of the locality was pointed out to them. The jury found mechanics laying a derailing switch such as The Even- ing World has advocated, which, had it been in place on Thursday last, would have prevented the disaster. This action was approved of by the jury, and it drew comment on the material of which the railroad gates are made, One of the jurors said that he could not understand why steel ot sufficient strength was not used in thelr construction. The tracks on the Clifton street grade were swept and well sanded to: day, but a search failed to discover the sand-box which the trolley road people say is kept at that point. An empty coal ecuttle which had evidently | been used for the purpose of holding eand was lying in the gutter. It was the Coroner's intention to take the jurors to the North Jersey cay barns and have them inspect the wrecked car, but he learned that the company had removed the car at daybreak to its repair shops on the other side of the town. Orders to hurry the car to the repair shops and have i taken apart were issued when it was learned that Coroner Heilman wag impanelling a jury. FACTS READY FOR THE GRAND JURY. County Prosecutor Riker said to-day he hed completed his plans fom presenting to the Grand Jury on Tuesdey morning all fects in relation to, the wreck. He has subpoenaed the operating officials of the railroad ang trolley companies and a number of eye-witnesses of the disaster, A point that will be gone into thoroughly before the Grand Jury with be the failure of the trolley company to have a derail! switch placed at the fatal crossing. Before the Newark Board of Public Works yesterday that he had entered into an agreement with the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western, through its division superintendent, Andrew Reasoner, to instal a derailing switch with an automatic danger signal at the Clifton ayenue crossing, but that when Mr, Reasoner resigned and President Truesdale succeeded President Sloan the new official repudiated the agreement, ‘This statement was vigorously denied by former Chief Engineer Mae- Farlin, of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western, who has only recently resigned. Mr. Young claimed to have documentary proof of the agreement, He will be asked to place it before the Grand Jury, and this important phase of the situation will be thoroughly threshed out. Prosecutor Riker was angry to-day over obstacles placed in his way By the trolley company in his attempt to secure service of a subpoenae on the Italian crossing watchman, whose duty it was to see that the trolley tracks were kept clear of snow and properly sanded. This man disappeared after t the accident, and attempts to learn his identity or whereabouts from the trolley company have proved fryitiess, GAINES WOULD BE WELL POSTED ON WHITE HOUSE, WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—Representative Gaines, of Ten- nessee, introduced a resolution requesting the President to transmit to the House a statement 4! the character and cost of the recent alterations {0 the White House; also, that the work be examined by sktlisd psrsons, Another resolution asked ic, lark to-day caused bared heads on the part of men, weeping ai inventory of all the public prope: ty in the Executive Mansion, the cost of eaoh article, iis condition and the disposition of such "as Wave been removed, oor wines | Mr. Riker said that if the company did not produce-him to-day. ee ai take steps that would result in the man's arrest. a F CITY WEEPS AS VICTIMS ; ARE BORNE TO THE GRAY ‘Three lines of carriages winding thelr way through the streets: