The evening world. Newspaper, March 14, 1903, Page 1

} + RACING # SPORTS GENERAL ' SPORTING NEWS | __ON PAGE 6. |e "PRICE ONE CENT. WOMEN ON IN THEB ' Nothing Has Yet Been Elicited to Throw Any Light on Why and by Whose Hand the Young Millionaire \! Met His Death in the Snuggery of, His Own Home. (Quarters in obedience to subpoenas, & Hubbell. the party. Bhroughout the inquiry. peas Mrs. Hall's Testimony. \ K homer" } “Yes sir, for about seven years.” / “You were in the Burdick home on the (morning of Feb. 27?” ) #¥es sir." “Was your daughter at home 201 Avhland avenue on that da No sir. She was in Atlantic City.” i “Did you hear from your daughter?” r ‘| "¥es sir. About seven times.” HACK URDICK * MURDER INQUEST Mother of Murdered Man's Widow De- scribes His Actions When She Last Saw Him on the Night of the Mys- vy terious Murder in His Buffalo Home. (Special to The Evening World.) BUFFALO, March 14.—Interest in the long awaited inquest into the Burdick murder mystery received a fresh stimulus this afternoon when the ‘women members of the murdered man’s household reached Police Head- Mrs. Burdick and her mother, Mrs. Hull, were garbed in the deepest Mourning. They were accompanied by their attorneys, Messrs. Hartzell The employment of counsel by the family of the murdered man {s one of the peculiar features of this remarkable murder mystery. Miss Marion Burdick, the murdered man’s eldest and favorite daughter, accompanied her mother, and will be a witness. Maggie Murray an¢ Katherine Koenig, the servants in the Burdick household, were also in District-Attorney Coatsworth, who is a member of the same social * Set as the Burdicks, Paines and Pennells, did not show any inclination to press the witnesses closely. His most significant interrogations were sug- gested by Chief of Detectives Cusack, who sat beside Judge Murphy Mrs, Hull entered the courtroom on the arm of Attorney Hartzell and walked’ quietly to the witness stand. Mrs, Burdick and Miss Marion re- mained in Supt. Bull’s office. Mrs. Hull is a kindly looking old woman of ‘medium stature. She was plainly dressed. Her long mourning vell was “thrown back, revealing a motherly looking face surmounted by snow-white hair. On the witness stand Mrs, Hull leaned her forehead on her hand, 5 which rested on the arm of the chair. Her posture indicated feebleness, but ) | #4 ft shaded her features trom a busy band of newspaper men. Her volce was ow but even. If she was nervous, she had herself well in hand. The room in which the hearing is held is packed with fashionably clad 1 people, more than half of whom are women. “Did you send Mrs. Burdick a tele- “You are a member of the Burdick |€Tam after Mr. Burdick's death?" “I did. The telegram was read as fol- ‘Come at once; Hd died this A. ‘Leave tor Buffalo to- “What time did Mr. Burdick return t No. ‘home on Thureday evening?" ‘| “About 5.90 P. M. I was in my room at the time.” Mrs, Hull proceeded to tell how, after (Continued on Second Page.) Wt SS See = Se ee Rete . a “With his right leg crushed to a pulp, fReroic ttle Seymour Wesley Smith Promised the dig policeman who “dragged him from beneath the heavy tteuck thet he wouldn't cry, and as he ‘was being burried to Bellevue Hospital Nese put bis arms adout th eneok of his father, Dr. Seymour Wesley @mith, and )Bold Bim “not to mind.” - 3 » Later, when the father, with tears : down his face, assisted at the which removed the leg at Ines, the child pressed his father's ‘and murmured, “I'm so sorry for ‘The brave boy was playing tag with Mttle girl in Twenty-seventh street, Lexington and Fourth ave- | when he ran into @ passing truck. the driver could stop his horses, the hind wheel passed over the ad's @rushing it in horrible manner, ‘wae running across the street to bring caught by his little friend he slipped. A woman screamed, Griver uttered a shocked exclamation Patrolman Kohler, who was pass- man into the street. Don't ery,” soothingly ald the po- ae he pulled the boy, as ten- ‘ty ‘86 possible, from beneath the cruel a Pesohote reply. I don't tank fas reply. “4 ' m i badly, anyway, I 't care ars. Seay amas HIS LITTLE BOY 1S A TRUE HERO, ‘With His Leg Crushed to Pulp by Truck, His Only Thought Is of His Father, Who Assists at the Ensuing Amputation, the boy's father, Dr. Smith, of No, CI Madison avenue, was notified of th cldent, He came and rode to Bi with bis boy in his arms. The jad never lost consciousness nor courage, and talked with hie father all the way to the hospital. Arrived there, he was hurried at once to the operating- room and immediately placed on the table, ‘i When his father in the hurting him the boy sald: “Go right shead, papa; don't mind me, t osn stand 4." Wihen one of the physiciane attempted to administer an anacathatic the boy raised his clear eyes and said: “Thank you very much, but I don't heed any medicine.’ Frank Weber, the driver of the truck, in Gr int * reenpoint avenue, Brook: who lives yn, wes KING AT WILD WEST SHOW. Col. Cody Pr. Ruler in Indian Village. box at the Olympla this seemed to Che “ Circulation Books Open to All.” jevue preparatio, for the operation asked him if they were LONDON, March 14,—King Edward, Queen Alexandra, the Princess Victoria, Prince and Prinosss Charles of Denmark and three of the children of the Prince of Wales, all attended by their wultes, ey intternoon, “ana and thoroughly enjoy the Wild SENATE MA TURN DOWN PLIMLE | President Roosevelt Asked to Return His Nomina- tion to Assistant United States Treasurership. PAPERS HAD BEEN SIGNED. J. Pierpont Morgan May Have Influenced Action During His Recent Visit to White House —hHis Appointment a Surprise WASHINGTON, March 14.—In response to a resolution of the Senate adopted in executive session, the President has re- turned the nomination of William Pliim- ley, to be Assistant Treasurer of the United States at New York, for further consideration. The commission of Mr. Plimley had been signed by the President, but had not been delivered when the request from the Senate reached the White House. ‘The Senators maintain secrecy con- cerning their action, but It is supposed that the reports spread concerning Plimley after his appointment influ- enced the step. His post-office connections were cited against him and it is understood that prominent New York financiers who yere not pleased with this selection had something to say about the matter to the President. As the naming of Plimley was a sur- prise to Wall street, some say that J. Plerpont Morgan may heve disoussed it with the President during his visit to the White House the other day. ‘The nomination was recalled at the request of Senator Aldrich, Chairman of the Committee on Finance, to which it had been referred. It is said that the nomination was not considered by the committes, but was reported after a poll of thrée or four members of that committee. BOY OF FIFTEEN HANGS HIMSELF. His Mother Finds His Body Dangling at the End of a Clothes Line in the Cellar of Her Home. NO CAUSE IS GIVEN. Frank Peterkin, fitteen years ol4, of No, 236 Williams avenue, Bast New York, committed suicide to-day by hang- ing. His mother, who had missed him, found this body in the cellar, dangling trom the end of a rope. Go far as the police have been able to learn from the mother there was no par- tleular reason why the boy should have Killed ‘himself, At first there was an en- deavor to make it @ case of accident. The boy went into the celler some time this morning, took @ clothes lone, made a alip noose and chapped the rope into a length that would allow his feet to ewing clear of the floor, He famtened the free end of the rope to a hook im the ceiling, placed the noose around his neck, climbed on a tub and stepped off. A physician who was called by the mother said that the boy had been dead | th for three or four hours when the body was discovered, en MYSTERY IN MAN’S DEATH. Wife In Arrested, but Police Now Think He Died of Alcoholism. nder Walther, a German barber, of No, 147 East Eighty-fourth street, was found dead in bed to-day. Coroner Jackson, who investigated the case, learned that the man's wife left him ten daye ago after a quarrel, and he had her arrested on suspicion of bedng ocon- nected with her husband's death, in| The police of the Hest Eighty-eighth Street Station investigated the case and found nothing suspicious, but the Cono- ner insisted in having Mrs. Walther committed to the House of Detention. Walther had been drinking heavily tor weveral months, He abused his wife #0 that she was obliged to leave him. in the room where he was found, but not enough to asphyxiate him. ‘The police believe he died in consequence of hie drinking: There wae @as escaping from the jet Piaf Arann nia = NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 1903. EDITION PRICE ONE CENT, NEW HAVEN AOADDEFES THEUNIONS, J. P. Morgan Takes Hand in the Controversy and Decides to Back Presi- dent Hall in the Fight, 8,500 MEN WILL GO OUT. They Will Strike at Midnight on Monday and Tie Up Whole System Unless Officials Back Down, J. Plerpont Morgan, William Rocke- feller and other members of the direc- torate of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad met at the Grand Central Station to-day and decidea to support President Hall in his refusal to Meet a joint committee from the broth- erhoods of the dissatisfied trainmen on the system. Unless President Hall recedes from his position it fe regarded as almost certain that a strike will be inaugurated on the road at midnight next Monday, fnvolving 8,500 men. President Hall says that the company might make some concessions to ite employees, but refuses to receive » committes of the officers of the va- rious untona to which the men belong. The :nen insist that it makes no ait- ference whether these officers are em- ployees of the rasiroad or not, President Hall expresses willingness to treat with & committee of employees, but the em- ployees would prefer to have their or- ganization oMoers carry on the nego- tations. On this proposttion alone are the com- pany and the men apart. That Presi- Gent Hott will be upheld by the Loard of directors of the system is a foregone conclusion. If he decides to back down on his own responstbility between now and midnight on Mfonday the strike will be averted. At the regular monthly meeting of the directors, held to-day in Granj Central wtation, very little was done in the way of routine business. The attention of the meeting was confined to the strike situation. President Hall made a volu- minous report defining his position, which had already been indorsed at a meeting of the Exeoutive Committee held yeaterday. The men we been voting on the question of @ strike for a week, The vote is practically completed on all the divisions of the system and the com- Diete result will be Imown in New Haven to-morrow. From returns al- Teady received the employees are in favor of @ strike by an overwhelming majority. President Hall admits this. “I have hardly any doubt that a larg majority will be in favor of a strik. fhe sald to-day, ‘At the same time even should this vote result as I expect, that doesn't mean necessarily that there will be a strike because the men may attll decide to take their alleged grievances ut of the hands of the persons who have been running things for them and come to us themselves.” The men laugh at this view of the matter. They say that they nave given thelr case into the hands of the Na- tional officers of their unions and that on the proposition that these unions Must be recognized the cause of union- fem must stand or fall, The Board of Directors’ mesting ad- Journed at 1.46 o'clock ‘this afternoon, President Hall, through a ‘ve, wald that the only feen| iscussed waa the demand of the trainmen and 1° conductors to have @ joint committ Meet the Board of Dii his had not been decided iipon, ‘The regular meoting ‘naked what. the consequences would be tf at @ vole, which will be polled on Monday, the’ conductors and wr eon resolve e, © repre- tail eaidenst ‘sald: wentative of the Pri “T do it iknow, undoubtedly some meawure will be taken.” ‘The members of the Board at pi- thet bones, ‘apd the extiea mates aoe entire Fun: Gor discussion Gam been lett with Pres: ident Hall BARS THEATRE GESTURES. But Magistrate Hogan Says Mere Songe om Sunday Are Not Diegal. Magistrate Hogan, sitting in Yorkville Court to-day, dismissed the case of al- leged violation of tae Sunday Concert law against the Dewoy Theatre, The proprietor of the Dewey Theatre, David Kraus, was one of seven proprietors of, tres arrested last Bunda: orders. of Commissioner Bileged violation. With hi Fegted “Billy” Weston, a singer. *heslatant Corporation Counsel O'Brien represented the cit vcltye tn the ease. ie ended ti ee well aa ot conta as. 8 viclation awe oman night by reene for was ar of the law. with him tn euch « io construe the law ng with other ‘oom: and — Ching’s Population 426,447,000, PWKING, March 14-—-The Board ot Revenue has the arrests have been made in connection with an attack on four-year-old Rose Lewin, who after being abducted and being brutally treated, was placed un- conscious on the tracks of the Reading (Railroad to be gorund to pieces. father's store on Highth street, and being missing at nightfall the neighbors joined in a search for her, but found no trace of the little one. of the headlight of a Reading locomo- tive revealed little Rosie lying unocon- schous on the tracks, The engineer stopped the train just in time to save/to be killed, Salesman Admits in Court that He ‘Has Been 6t One Hundred and Twenty-fourth street, pleaded guilty to,a change of grarx) lar- ceny before Magistrate Barlow in the Tombs Court to-day. He !s a salesman for Isaac Brill, an importer of fine laces, at No. 436 Broadway. cently, and he wes arrested by Detec- tive Sergeant Carey, of the Central Of- fice, last night. enta- und on him. wes stealing from the firm for eighteen months. When taken to Police Head- t| quarters last night he confessed his guilt to Gergt. Carey, and to-day pleaded guilty. Magistrate Barlow held him in $1,000 bail for trtal. ceported off Nantucket at 8.15 AM. and ou each Querandtn: 4 POLICE CAPTAIN O'CONNOR THE NEW TENDERLOIN CHIEF. CHILD LEFT TO BE KILLED BY TRAIN. Abducted from Home, Brutally Treated, and While Unconscious Placed on Railroad Tracks—Engineer Saved Her. (Special to The Kvening World.) PHILADELPHIA, March 14.—Seven her life an word was at once sent to the police. An ambulance surgeon who responded to m call, said the child was in a dan- gerous condition and might die. She was hurried to the Ohtldren’s Homeo- Pathic Hospital, where she Nes in a critical condition. When the seriousness of the crime be- came known the whole machinery of the Police Department was set in mo- dion, and the inevetigation still con- tinues, The girl's condition fe such that she cannot yet identify any of the seven suspects. Whe arrests followed a description given of a man seen with little Rosie near her home, No. 482 North Bighth Street, and of others noticed in the wicnity of Ninth and Green streets, where the child was left on the tracks ‘The child disappeared from her At 3 o'clock in the morning the giere ST ee LACE THIEF CONFESSES. YERKES IN COLLISION. Street Car Hit His Automobile, but the Occupants Were Not Hurt. ‘The handsome automobile owned and ‘occupied by Charles T. Yerkes, the millionaire, was struck by @ north- bound Amsterdam avenue car, at Nine- ty-sixth street and Amstordam avenue, this afternoon. Neither Mr. Yerkes nor his chauffeur, B. W, Roesheim, who was with him, was thrown out of the vehicle or in. jured. st for Over # Year, of No, Ml East Charles Stornwald, Suspicion was turned against him re- dollars’ worth of fine laces were a It le said that he has ENGLAND'S FAIR BUDGET. Appropriation of $150,000 for Ex- himit at St, Louis. LONDON, March 14,—Among the Civil Service estimates for 1903-'04, issued to. day, appears the sum of $150,000 aa grant in aid of the expenses of th Royal Commission for the St, Louls Ex- Position. A note appended explaina tha: any further contribution decided upon walt be provided for in the estimates of subsequent years. La Lorraine Coming In, The French liner La lorraine was DR. LORENZ’S PUPILS PERFORM OPERATION IN FIVE SECONDS, Dr. Frederick Mueller, pupil of Dr. Lorenz, broke al! records for dry surgical operations to-day by reducing a congenital dis- location of the hip in five seconds at Beth Israel Hospital. Lizzie Rubin, ten years old, was the patient. When this child was selected for the operation it was thought she had passed the age limit, usually placed at seven years. Dr, Mueller ma- Nnipulated the deformed limb with almost lightning speed, and shan the spectators heard the bone sink in place they burst into a frenzy of applause. LATE RESULTS AT NEW ORLEANS. Filth Race—Latson 1, Georgia Gardner 2, Compass 3. ‘Sixth Rage—-Moderator 1, Rus ton 2, Dodie 8. 3, . ia QTREILLY SHIFTED Gen, Greene Sends the Police Captain Back to Brooklyn, Promotes Sergt. O’Connor and Gives Him the Job at the West. Thir- tieth Street Station. Transfer Declared to Have Been Made cause the Commissioner Wants a Man In. timately Acquainted with the City to in Command of the Precinct. Commissioner Greene kept the Police Department going again day. He shook Capt. Miles O'Reilly out of the Tenderloin station sent him back to Brooklyn. Sergt. J. W. O'Connor, who has been do clerical work at Police Headquarters, was Promoted to a captaincy sent to the command of the Tenderloin, with the explanation that a acquainted with the city was needed at that important post. ine Another captain was made in the promotion of Sergt. Charles 1 Kemp, formerly in command of the old bicycle squad. And then, as offset to these changes made by the Commissioner, the courts put 6 to duty as detective sergeants at Headquarters seventy-eight men who hi ‘been deposed by Col. Partridge when he was at the helm and sent to patrol duty. ; O'CONNOR MADE CAPTAIN AND SENT TO TENDERLOIN Capt. O'Reilly tad been barely two | day afternoon in the case of Burns snontha in command of the Tenderloin | Partridge. Burns, with seventy Precinct. He was transferred to the/other men affected by the decision, Ralph Avenue 6tation in Brooklyn, attached to the Central Office His auccessor is J. W. O'Connor, who| prior to April 1, 1901, The g1 was made a police captain a few min-| passed a law declaring that all n ; tutes before O'Reilly's transfer was an-! signed to euch duty prior to thie @at nounced. O'Connor as a sergeant hasjehould be rated as detect ge been in charge of the clerical work at} When Col, Partridge succeeded thé late Polloe Headquarters that Michael Flood | col, Murphy as Commissioner he redaée gave up when ihe was promoted and sent |to patrol duty these seventy-eight to the Tenderloin. along with seventy-four other men In transferring Capt. O'Reilly Com-|Col. Murphy hed promoted to the | missioner Greene eaid: Of detective-sergeants, but who “My action in sending Capt, O/Relly | not attashed to the Central Office to Brooklyn ts not to be taken as a rep- rimand or any reflection upon his con- duct as an officer. Capt. James Innis, who has been In charge of the Raiph Avenue Station, has applited for a twenty days’ eave of absence, which I granted, This would leave that pre- cinct without a commander, and as there is a great deal of important work to be done there I felt that I should wend a capable man to fill the vacancy. “It has long been my opinion that the man in commang of the ‘Tenderloin should have an intimate knowledge of New York. Capt. O'Connor's work in the Detective Bureau has made him familiar with the workings of every Precinct dn the cfty, and I don’t think I could havo selected a better man." Capt. O'Connor was appointed to the force in March, 1886, He was made & | salaries, unless some of the more roundsman in November, 184, and a ted mien’ ape Senna sergeant in May, 184. He was formerly | ¥ SPPPINIE AIS S28 sERoneae un: & Brooklyn policeman, but of late years TRIED TO “HOG” A SEAT. has done duty in different precinots in That's What the Court Told his olty, At the @ame time Gen. Greene pro- hauser When He Fined Him Abraham Weshauser, of No, 208 moted O'Connor he mate Sergt. Win- lam Hogan, stationed in the Bronx. « captain, and sent him to comman h | East Sixty-seventh Street Station. Lsdpeashell Dy. | Sergt. Charles D, Kemp, who organ- whe give the ised the old Biayele Squad and com- one y complali bic manded it while its organization was » fl aoe -| Higgins told Magistrate Barlow maintained, was pri ed to a cap: Pry gi ete ay er car at the loops at the of the Brooklyn Bridge last taincy by Police Commissioner Greene to-day. He was assigned to the Fifth strest station—the Die; | of the Bioskin ae trict, a seals Ne Kemp {a thirty-eight years old, He pyle raga Bits 299 ie ¥ a was appointed to the force In 1889, being | row him to tle Brat bits then @ newspaper reporter. He was | remonstrated wath Weahaueet ty Weshauser denied the charge (fl started a rambling sort of am exp made a roundsman in 19% and @ Ser- geant in 1896, In promoting him Gen, tion, when Magistrate Barlow az how thie duty aa a detective- i The applicaion was denied. was taken to the Appellate D n Brooklyn, which reversed Justice © rane, basing the reversal of the @ of the Appellate Division in the Deteotive-Sergt. Edward in @ similar action nas just suc in having Commissioner Greene damused to restore him, ‘The return of these seventy: will coat the city nearly $50,000 « “Red Light" Greene passed over Sergts. Tighe and Mannion, who were above Kemp on the Gligible list of the Civil-Gervice Board, Commissioner Greene dismissed from the force Policeman James P. Pieros, of the Hast Thirty-fifth Btreet Station for being off post. Pleroe was appointed one and @ halt years ago. ——ee COURTS RESTORE RANK OF 78 DETECTIVES, ty-eight former detective-ser- Pe oy reduced to patrol duty Commissioner Partridge shortly you $10: Weshauser paid the fine, hours ending at & P, for New York Otty