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SPORTING NEWS Circulation Books Open to All”? ON PAGE 8. — PRICE ONE CENT. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 190 COUNT ZBOROWSK! KILLED GY Ws AUTO. Thrown Against a Rock in a Hill- Climbing Race in France— His. Skull Is Crushed and He Expires In- stantly. : Member of a Famous New York Family and His Wife a Descendant of the Astors—Their Marriage Followed a Scandal Which Was International. NICE, France, ‘Apel 1.—Count Elliot Zborowski, the Amer- ‘Gean millionaire, who has spent the last ten years in Europe and nwho has gained an international reputation as an automobilist, met this death to-day in an automobile hill-climbing race between here end La Turbie. . His machine, going at terrific speed, was turned over at a sharp curve, and the American was thrown headforemost against a rock. His skull was split open and he was instantly killed His chauffeur, ‘Baron de Pallange, who recently became a professional automo- bilist, was mortally injured. The race was stopped as soon as it was known that the Count (Continued on Second Page.) KEENE|S UNDER ‘SLIDELL AT HARRIMAN’ FIRE, & TO.1. WINS, - paceman Presidétit’ of “Southern Pacific Makes Affidavits, in Which He Says the Wall Street Plunger. Threatened Trouble. nings from Zirl, with the Fa- vorite, Blue and Orange, in Third Place. OVERTURES TO SELL STOCK. |TRACK NEARLY FAST AGAIN. E. H. Harriman gave out from his ‘office this afternoon coples of the an- gwer and affidavits submitted by the Southern Pacific directors to-day in the Federal Court at Nashville in the suit brought by James R, Keene to enjoin the directors from voting the stock held “by the Union Pacific interests at the annual meeting of the Southern Pacific on Ay n Principal of these is the affidavit of Mr. Harriman himself, which sets forth bis story of the purposes of the Keene move, Mr, Harriman denies point blank THE WINNERS. FIRST RACE—Six and a half fur- tongs.—Slidell (6 to 1) first, Zirl (8 to 6) second, Blue and Orange third, SECOND RACE—Four and a half furlonge—Judge (2 to 6) 1, Listaway (10 to 1) 2, M. Theo 3, THIRD RACE, 6 furlonge—Exam- Iner (1 to 3), 1; Flying Buttress (4 to 1), 2; Anna Daly, 3. FOURTH RACE—Seven furlongs. ~——Benduro (5 to 1) 1, Flo Russell (7 to 1) 2, Cherubim 3, Cpeciel to The Brening Fort.) BENNINGS RACE TRACK, WASH- INGTON, D, C., April 1—The regulars Came out to the track in goed shape to- day, The card looked easy to them. In " vars pans loote was @ horse that stood ove the others so much that it Jooked a shame to take the money. The talent actually looked upon the bookies on to tell of how, in October, 1901, 3 Lauterbach called him up on the ‘phone and asked him if he would pee a friend that evening on business, Overtures in Keene’s Name. Mr. Herriman says he consented and David Lamar appeared. Lamar said he ‘was very friendly to Mr. Keene, whe had jarge holdings in Southern Pacific Takes the Opening Event at Ben-|| READY TO ASK A RECEIVER, Witness Amory Admits Papers Are Prepared for Petition Against Metro- politan Company. FOR STOCKHOLDER BRAKER. Gen. Tracy and Whéeler H. Peckham Appear for Keene and Taylor—More Cable- grams Produced by Defense. The hearing of the charge of criminal Mbel against H. H. Vreeland, President of the Metropoiltan Traction Company and Interurban Company, was resumed before Magistrate Barlow in Centre Street Court to-day. The complainant, William N, Amory, was on the stand and under questioning by De Lancey | Nicoll admitted that papers had been drawn two weeks ago looking to an application for the appointment of a recelver for the Metropolitan Traction Company. These, Mr. Amory stated, were drawn up by ex-District-Attorney Philbin, act- ing as lawyer for Mr, Braker, a Metro- politan stockholder. On previous hearings, while Mr. Amory was on the stand, it developed that the witness: had been in constant communication with James R. Keene, through his son-in-law and broker, Tal- bot J. Taylor, who put up all the money tor the preliminary work of bringing a elvil action for the appointment of a recelver for the traction company. Additional interest was given the pro- ceedings to-day by the appearance of Gen. Benjamin F, Tracy and Wheeler H. Packham, representing Mr. Taylor and Mr. Keene in the proceedings. Mr. De Lancey Nicoll, counsel for Mr. Vreeland, told both gentlemen that they would not be wanted to-day. The two distinguished lawyers left the court as soon as Amory took the stand. ~~ “More: Cablesrama, More cables which passed between Amory and William A. Hazard, e friend of Mr. Keene's, who was in Paris, were read. Mr, Nicoll wanted to show by these oablegrams that the whole movement was part of a stock-Jobbing scheme. District-Attorney Jerome came into court and sat next to where Mr. Nicoll stood, questioning the witness. “I went to see Judge Jerome in No- vember,” Amory said. "That was about three or four weeks after my last in- terview with Mr. Keene. I saw Judge Jerome and put the facts before him. He referred me to Mr, Schurman.” “When you last saw Mr. Keene did you talk about the application for a re- celver, did you not ask him to put up money to go on?” Mr. Nicoll asked. “Well,” Mr. Amory said, “I wanted Mr. Keene to stand by. I wanted a man who could not be bought out by the Metropolitan Traction Company." “At what date did you commence with Mr. Philbin this proceeding for a re- ceiver?’ Mr. Nicoll asked. Drew Up Papers for Receiver. “Mr. Philbin began two weeks ago to draw up papers or the paper in the ap- plication for a receiver," said the wit- nese. “In whose behalf is this application to be made?" Mr. Nicoll asked. ey. J. Braker,” he replied. Mr, coll did not question the wit- ness closely about what Mr. Philbli plans were. It was only on Saturday that Philbin for Mr. Braker had caused the arrest of a-private detecti who was shadowing ifr, Braker. “During these talks with Braker and BS: sald as to » Was anythi ould be the receiver?” Mr, Nicoll aske “Yes,” sald the witness, | with pitying ey 28. Blue and Orange, Jutige, Cherubim, until the next day and when the telephoned to him he rofused to| like a wart on a girl's nose and the talent could see visions of easy money im front of them. The summaries will show whether these golden dreams were realized, or whether they came tumbling about the ears of the talent lke a house of cards, i ih erally the most disastrous to the talent, ‘There was nothing lacking in the shape ot weather, The air was mild and epring-iike and the breezes had no sug- gestion of the winter just over, ‘The track was drying out fest. Along the back#eretoh the golng was dusty in g EEREE®Y if fi : i 2 € g to be conaidered fast, The attendance was large. The Post-Office authorities who have I sional tipsters have released some of them from restraint. ‘They are stil holding the mat! of the Examiner and Lord Badge stuck out| ce! ‘The card that looks the easiest ts gen-| advis: spots, but on the whole it was too jumpy |“ been holding np the mafl-of the profes-| that Braker Suggested for Receiver. ‘Wee Braker suggested as a re- rT ie “Did you eay hi Juable it migh: to the fecolvert Fa the know all of the o » Phibbin at wows ‘be made counsel to the receiver J. Coleman Dra; name was again brought into the friend end Am yton hed iw rumors , Fr eene sent and wanted to know it he ng, to do with the rumors in the street. ir, Amory said Mr. ton told Mr. Keene that he (Amory) ina more than I No Basis for Action Yet. of Mr. Philbin's fi & Titenken, No. ith was sald this afternoon the firm was inves teal y in the. interests » nothing yet hed learned sotlon, elvil or outerwise.” ‘The firm continue © persist in ite investigation, ee a WEATHER FORECAST. Forecast for the thirty-six ure ending at SP, M, Thure~ y for New York City and vioin- Wair to-night aed Thure- day} treskh westerly winds, be- <|EXPLOSION AT PERCIVAL COVERT, WHOSE LOVE LED TO HIS SUICIDE, AND MRS. LYLIA SCHOONMAKER, WHOM HE FATALLY SHOT. (From Photographs.) SUIGIDE AFTER — ODELL COMPANY AN ELOPEMENT) GETS PIER LEASE Young Stothard and Secretly |Sinking Fund Commission Jams Wedded Bride, Afraid to| Dea! Through Despite Offer of HE Apply for Forgiveness, Took} $5,000 a Year More Rental Poison. from Another Concern. | str, DEAD BODIES IN THE YARD.|BID WAS MET WITH SNEERS. (Special to The Rvening World.) PATERSON, N. J., April 1.—Afraid to face this father and his mother with his bride, whom he had married secretly, ‘Dhomas Frederick Stothard and his wife killed themselves in the yard of the elder Stothard's house and the dead bodiex were found to-day. Young Stothard lived with his father at Lakeview, a suburh of this city. He was employed in Bast New York. There he met Loulsa Chausser, but his parents objected to his marriage to her. esterday, after an absence from home of several days, he wrote his mother he and Miss Chausser had been man and wife since last September, He inclosed the marriage certificate and said that he end his bride were coming to Lakeview to seek forgiveness. ‘When the elder Stothard went into the yard to-day he saw the dead body of a Woman, Further investigation disclosed the dead body of his son in an outhouse. By the body of the young man lay an empty eleht-ounce bottle that had con- tained carbolic acid, Tt js belleved that young Stothard and his bride arrived in Lakeview on a Yate train last night and that they had Gov. Odell’s Steamship Company won | the lease of Pler 2% North River to-day for twenty years at $31,000 a year, the! Sinking Fund Commisston deltberately turning down an offer of $36,000 a year for the same privilege. Mayor Low, Comptrolier Grout, Cham- berlain Gould, President Fornes, of the Board of Aldermen, and Alderman Her- Committee, comprise the commission. Comptroller Grout said he was in favor of granting the lease to the Odell con- cern and Mayor Low ordered a roll call. Before {t was taken Lawyer John E. Brodsky presented the following letter: “Gentlemen: On behalf of a client of unquestioned responsibility I hereby offer to accept a lease of pier No. 2% North River for the term of twenty-six years at an annual rental of $36,000, pay- ablo in such manner as may be required, or if such time cannot be agreed upon or granted my cllent will accept a lease ef such pier for a term of ten years, At LOVE TANGLE. ENDS HIS: LIFE. COURT DECIDES — EN MAY STRIK Injunction Granted Against the Wabas Trainmen and Firemen. Restraining The from Quitting Their Posts, Is Dissolv To-day in United States Circuit Court. Counsel for the Road and the Men Get To gether To-day and Strike May Be Avertet —The News Affects Wall Street and Trad: ers Sell the Raad’s Stock at a Drop. ST. LOUIS, April 1.—1n the United States District Cow day Judge Elmer B Adams handed down a decision dissolvi injunction granted March 8 restraining officials of the hoods of Locomotive Firemen and Railroad Trainmen and othe leaders from influencing in any way or ordering the men emplo on the Wabash Railway system to strike. ig The injunction when granted created a tremendous sensation im! circles. It was looked upon as the most drastic measure ever taken a labor organization and from all over the country came telegrams labor bodies to the representatives of the trainmen and firemen them to make a bold fight against the injunction, because if it Were Percival Covert, Bank Clerk and Embezzler, Married Woman and Then Commits Suicide. Shoots a 1 WAS ENGAGED TO WED. ——EEEy Madly infatuated with a married wom- ) 80, engaged to marry a beautiful young discharged from a $2,000 a year po- jon and threatened with arrest for embezzlement—that was tangle in which Percival Covert, twenty- eight years old, a glerk in the Williama- burg Trust Company, and which he ended by blowing out his brains. His attempt to murder Mrs. Lylia Schoonmaker, who had befriended him, despite his passion for her, shows that his mind had been unbalanced by his troubles When Nicholas Schoonmaker, an en- gineer in the Western Union Building, bert Parsons, Chairman of the Finance) at No, 19 Broadway, returned to his home, York, late last evening, he found his wife and Covert lying at the point of death across his bed. Both were fully dressed, The woman was bleeding from |a bullet wound in her breast. |had a Oullet hole in his forehead and a revolver in his hand. way to the hospital. the hopeless found himeeit, No, 9 Pine street, East New Covert He died on the His Victim Near Death. the Bradford Emergency Hospital it was sald that Mrs, Schoonmaker's chances for recovery thousand, she 1s not operated on, and an ope! Were one in & Blood poisoning 4s feared if tended to the forgiveness of his| with renewals covering such period, at parenta, but that fearing they would| the same annual rental. Sipe 8; Mapeaeinie) frome, tea oF bern ‘meet with a cold reception decided te “JOHN E. BRODSKY." | These. Cover ullet enter rs end their lives. PREVOST WINS “Whom do you represent?” asked Comptroller Grout. “I represent a highly responstb! pany—tenants at present steamship com of the city whwo already occupy piers IN FRENCH DUEL. |*,"e% fsssce” replied str isan. ir terme become of the Mdaon ever trade?" again asked the Comptroiter, Noted Writer Wounds Brother of r. Brodsky replied: Who Shot at Him | 1 concern this, bourd. Tain ‘here. pre- ‘Woman 10 im in concern this |. I am here pre- to pay the city $5,00 a year more Paris Street. Of a lease than ig offered in’ the leawe ay On “Ont Wamn't ‘hinkc your offer PARIS, April 1—The brother of Mile. "Oh, ft Emma Touret was wounded in the fore- sepa Sides & 6 Bot 18, Baad tat ee arm to-day ina duel fought with M,| poded® the Mayor, “and. the jease was to_ Odell on the spot, hough Mercel Provost, the novelist, at Neullly. ile. Touret fired two shots from a r Monday at M, Prevost. Her mt his seconds to the Grodnky ‘oftered to" produce his clienus at onto. Lawyer Brodsky’ said later that he would apply for fatter. 4n injunotion, It repeated that Covert fired the despite Schoonmaker, Miss Minnie Kunzweller, of No. 170 Ma- genta street, East New York. Schoonmaker's body at the top of the right breast, passed through the lung, e|Mrazed the liver and lodged near her apine. Mrs. Schoonmaker recovered conscious- this afternoon. To a nurse she husband is not to blame id, “Mr. Covert shot me. y did he shoot you?” wae asked. “We were friendly—too friendly for my own good.” Letters found in Cov dressed to his mother and his friend wrge Carsons showed that he had embezzled $1,000 from the Williameburg ‘Trust Company and had been contem~- plating when the letters were written at the Astor House. pockets ad- sulcide since last Saturday, Engaged to Wea. was learned to-day that Covert, his infatuation for Mrs. was engaged to marry Before NEWARK Fike Fire in the plant of the Western Oi/ and Manufacturing Com- she learned to-day of his tragic death she spoke freely of her triendship for him. “We became engaged three months ago,” she said. "A few weeks ago he gave me a $300 diamond engagement ring. He called last Sunday night and appeared greatiy depressed, ‘It you only knew what is troubling me,’ he pany, of Newark, this afternoon caused an explosion that de- stroyed one of the buildings. When the firemen reached the scene the flames were rag- ing in three different buildings. A second alarm was turned in and very soon afterward the explosion took place, ee re LATE RESULTS AT BENNINGS, Fifth Race—Turnpike tl, Sir Christopher 2, Lady Radner 3, Sixth Race—Athelroy 1, H. L. Coleman 2, Bar Le Duc 3. psa AY Nr ee see EXHIBITION BASEBALL GAMES. ee At Fordham-—Fordham, 19; Ursinus ,6. i At New. Haven—Yale, 4; Tuf es it shi 9 45 Wi lon, 8, ‘ you cone Port wald, not tell me?’ I asked. of her flance’ when I noticed his manner, "Why He replied, ‘Oh, may beer of it soon enough.’ He left shortly after, promising to return on Wednesday night." —— “Dimple! Lawrence's Father Dead John Smith Lawrence, the tather of "Dimple" Lawrence, who was drowned with Clarence Foster in Tiana Bay, Long Ieland, in June last, ts dead in Aiorris, N, J. Death was due to asthma. He and his wife had been liv- ing dn Port Morris since last August, ———$——$— Bvery Precaution Taken, Sera eels in the higher courts it would mean the end of strikes. THE WORDS OF THE INJUNCTION. The injunction was worded thus: “We therefore do strictly command you until the further exit of the Court absolutely to desist and refrain from in any of ‘i ner ordering, coercing, persuading, inducing merrier ing, ie Wabash Rail rectly or indirectly, the employees of the oa Company, to strike or quit the service of said company.” Argument was heard before Judge Adams looking to the di of the injunction and the decision handed down by him to-day is tl The decision reviews the fact that this temporary ae: granted on allegations made by officials of the Wabash system that defendants were conspiring to interfere with interstate traffic and im transmission of Onited States mails. In his decision Judge Adams analyzes the bill of complaint the provisional restraining order was issued, showing that the of the charge was that the defendants had entered into an unlawful malicious conspiracy to secure recognition by exercising their powers supreme and controlling officers of the Brotherhoods of Firemen and ' men to force an undesired strike upon the men, who were members of organizations, and prevent their members who were working for cont lines from handling the traffic of the Wabash Reiiroad. D DONE TO HELP AVERT A STRIKE, Upon the showing made that the first step of the conspiracy, the ordering of such a strike, was contemplated by the defendants, and { irreparable damage would necessarily befall the railroad unless « rests ain ing order was forthwith issued, the same was done for the purpose of halg Ks ing the property and the parties in statu quo until both sides could be j heard on the motion to set aside or modify the order, J Within the time allowed by the restraining order defendants appears and filed their sworn answer denying the alleged conspiracy in alll its plas and particularly in denying any purpgse to interfere with interstate oon merce or the mails of the United States, and especially denying employees were satisfied with wages and conditions of the denying the practice of any and all coertion or false representations to’ yr about a strike, $ * Tne Court finds that the statements of the bill of complaint | effect that employees were satisfied with their wages and condi servico are not sustained, and that for a long time prior to the p the bill of complaint the employees were dissatisfied with thetz w ty conditions of service, and @ real difference of opinion existed betwe the railroad and a large majority of its employees, members of the rot erhoods, wilh respect to their wages, and that the defendants as” e-4 committees of the Brotherhoods were fully authorized, both by | 4 of thelr official relation to their members and also by direct written ei thority, to represent them in the effort to secure higher wages and change conditions of service, and that the proposed strike, instead of being clousiy ordered by the defendants, was a result of the vote of the emp acting without Coercion and directly authorising the same. CONSPIRACY NOT SUSTAINED. The Court further finds, after a full examination of the evidence, the charge of conspiracy to interfere with the interstate commertee of Unitc4 States, or the mail service of the United States, is not sustained, ~ In discussing these issues, after reviewing many authorities, the Court concludes by laying down the law governing the rights, duties and leges of employees. Col. Blodgett, general solicitor of the Wabash, was apparently by the decision. “It is too early to say now whether or not we will aj he sald. “That will be decided after the decision shall have been read.” W. M. Judson, special counsel for the brotherhoods, says he and © Blodgett are making efforts to bring all the parties interested together that in his opinion there will be no strike, Sue NEWS CAUSES DROP IN STOCKS. The dissolution of the strike injunction against the Wabash caused (he Wall street traders to sell the preferred stock freely, and it: clined to 46 8-4. Pennsylvania and Southern Pacific fell off rapidly and sok about a point each under last night, while Colorado Fuel lost 2 1-2, speculative favorites reached a lower level on small transactions. NO STRIKE ON NEW HAVEN ROAD. noon that an amicable settlement & wages and hours of labor y reached and that the whole ble was over. | a Val Fitspatrick, of the Brotherhood of ‘Trainmen, who hy the loader of the men, made announcement to the po statement giving the ie and hours will be evening. ‘ . President Hall and Labor Leaders Announce that Trainmen’e Diff. culty Has Been Adjusted, NPW HAVIBN, April 1.—President Hall, of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Ralitosd, after an hour'e