The evening world. Newspaper, April 16, 1903, Page 1

Sina isele stchbes i Vuln RACING F SPORTS GENERAL _ SPORTING NEWS ON PAGES 12 & 13. i “ Cizculation Books Open to All.’’ | x ee | fs Circulation Books Open | to Al. » | NIGHT aside NEW YORK, ‘THURSDAY, : APRIL, 16, 1 903. | iveny, ON p TncoTAND, —ADROLL Wi The Chie” Apt Appears as a Witness in the Re-Trial of ; ,/Policeman 0’ Neill, Whom i He Discharged While He Was Boss of the Force. / TELLS HOW HE BRUSHED DOWN BAD POLICEMEN. aes The Harder They Needed the Brushing-Down Process, the Further He Transferred Of- fenders—Says Question About Paying for Transfers'Is Silly. * William 8, Devery sat to-day as a wit- ness in the room in Police Headquarters mhere he was sole dictator for so many _ months. He was an exceedingly frank and picturesque witness. Third Deputy ‘Commissioner Davis, who presided at the re-trial of Former Policeman Fd- _ ward O'Neill, wore a broad grin all the time Devery was on the stand, and oc- easionally laughed heartily at the an- @wers of the former Chief. Devery dismissed O'Neill from the De- (partment for insubordination, and at the @ame time volunteered the information that O'Neill was a “bum.” It was dur- the campaign two years ago. O'Neill wast his fot with the Citizens’ Union, @nd through the influence of that body @ecured an act of the Legislature grant- {ng him a new trial. ‘When O'Neill entered the trial room Mevery looked at him with an expres- sion of contempt. As the former Chier tok the witness stand he sat close to O'Nelll, who was ut the table with his couhsel, H. De Forest Baldwin, The @irect examination was conducted by . Deputy Commissioner Davis. Devery "Wald that at] he knew about the O'Neill Was0 could be found on the records. : Shouldn't Ne Sassy. *eWas there any justification for this ‘man talking back to you?” asked, Mr. “I can't remember," replied Devery. “I know that he had no fight to talk ack to a superior officer. I feel that ‘way now and I felt that way then.” Mr, Baldwin took up the cross-exami- mation, Devery said he had been a po- lceman since 1871, “and,” he added, “I think I'm in the Department yet." Mr. Baldwin jumped immediately into the subject of transfers. Devery said that the Commissioner did the trans- fering.’ When asked if he had ever made transfers at the request of friends he answered: “Well, friends of mine would come to me and ask to have a friend of theirs transferred to a nicer precinct and I'd do tt. The captain would recommend the transfer to the inspector, the inspector to the Deputy Chief and the Deputy ‘ehlet to the Commissioner, That was The way it was don Of Course He Saw Men, “You frequently saw people about transfers?” “People?” replied Devery: “What do you mean?” | *” “Human beings.” “Why, of cou ~erinniye. He Genie@ that the wife of Police- man Gannon had ever shaken a plece of paper in his face and told him that nei husband was being transferred because | he wouldn't stand for a “shake-down,” \\Mr. Baldwin was persistent in his ques. me concerning the alleged col.ection money for transfers. “Now, look here,” sald Devery, final- ly, “I don’: believe in any such sturt, If I'd found that any poor working man on the force was being made to pay money to anybody I'd dress that man down from his head to his hee. “When you wanted to rub it\into @ man you transferred him, didn't yout’ meted, Mr. Baldwin, responded the smiling Dev- 1 wanted to brush nim rred him as far as 1 could, od ¢hing for the department.’ jo the Imider you wenied to rub the further you transferred them?” jure,’ SUy, Hayling the chiet Idwin asked Jf O'Neill was not erred bechuse he arrested a Har- #aloo: epee Who stood in with high officials of the department, hat question 4» silly.’ sald Devery. ut-f insist upon an answer," ot on your life he waent. I never d of such a ‘hing,” ."" answered Devery, ed fj weatye! saith om, 8 ihe f “ght stray oO aires Bast One Dale Mousey, Sent, t Kitty. et und back’ to P { ‘and "back" wo" West Thirty. ‘ea Math ‘Wast One | PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN AT POLICE HEADQUARTERS TO- DAY OF THE ire 7ZO FEctrarg Vlo Lobo/dd AW Jupo- LorenoLobordo TWELVE MEN ARRESTED ON SUSPICION OF BEING INVOLVED IN BARREL TRAGEDY. LUOS 51794" POLICE ARE CERTAIN TREY HAVE oLAYERSG. Inspector McClusky Confident that the Murderers of the Man Found in a Barrel Are Among the Suspects Gathered in by His Detectives, _ “I am satisfied that three of the twelve men arrested last night on suspicion of knowing something of the east-side barrel murder mystery will be held for the crime,” said Inspector McClusky late this afternoon, ; He refused to name the three men, but intimated that probably nearly all; the rest of the suspects would be released by night. Secret Service men have been trailing the dozen under arrest for months, suspecting them to be members of a gang of counterfeiters. Secret Service operatives knew their haunts. One man, particularly de- sired, has thus far eluded the detectives. Papers and letters seized in the rooms of the men under suspicion have been turnett-over by the Secret Service men to the Central Office ae- of the case against the three mén spoken of by Inspector McClusky de- pends largely upon what knowledge may be gained from these papers. The swarthy dozen were arraigned before Magistrate Barlow in Jeffer- son Market Court to-day. All denied knowledge of English. Capt. Becker, of Union Market station, mal examination. Where is a court rule providing that prisoners hela on short affidavits have the choice of remaining in the court prison or going back to Head- quarters. With fervent unanimity the prisoners made known that they de- sired to remain at the Jefferson Market Prison. But the Magistrate, after a consultation with Capt. Becker, would not permit it. For police reasons he ordercd the suspected murderers to be taken back to Headquarters. MAN ATTEMPTS TO STAB A PRISONER. News of the. arrests spread through the Italfan colony and caused tre- mendous excitement. ‘There was.a mob of 2,000 jabbering Italians banked about Police Headquarters when the prisoners were brought out to be taken to court. Apparently it was a hostile gathering. An old man with a stiletto in his hand tried to climb iato a patrol wagon with ‘the evident intention of ki‘ling’one of the prisoners. Before the police could get to him he was dragged down Into the crowd. Secret-Service operatives assert that they saw the unidentified victim in the company of some of the men under arrest in a butcher shop at No, 16 Stanton street a few hours before the unknown man was murdered, Secret-Service men Henry Ritehie and George EB. Burns, who watched the meeting in the butcher shop, went to the Morgue and identified the murdered man ug the “newcomer” they had seen at No. 16 Stanton street on Monday night. Tho dead man was thought to be Vito Laduco, reputed proprietor of the butcher shop until two weeks ago, when he disappeared, He was said to have answered the murdered man's description. Barly to-day reporters lo- cated Laduco in the tenement at No, 15 Stanton street, opposite the shop. He proved to be only an employee and is now working in a shop in Haet Forty-elghth street. The butcher store was owned, up to two weeks ago, by Giovanni Zar- cone, who claimed to-day hg had sold it to a Brooklyn man whose name is the same as his, ALL WERE HEAVILY ARMED, All of the prisoners were heavily armed and resisted arrest desperately until force was used to subdue them. They were gathered in in three bands by as many squads of detectives, and so cleverly was the work done that only Ofteen iminutes elapsed betwesd the arrival! of the first and last squad of prisoners to Headquarters, Inspector McClusky sald earlier in the da: “Credit for the quick solution of this mystery must be given to the splen- did system of surveillance kept up by the United States Secret Service operatives. After the murder of Joseph Catania, in Brooklyn, last summer fyeenn, for all ninety acre Chief Inspector William J, Flynn, of the Bastern Section of the Secret Ser- When it came to arresting them, there was little difficulty because the | tectives and are being examined carefully by skilled men. The outcome) made a short affidavit, on which they were held until Saturday morning, when there will be a for-| FAVORITES THE WINNERS Cyuttica, 9 to 10; Cranes- ville, 3 to 5; Petunia, Oclawaha and Caledon- ite Takes the First Five Races at Aqueduct, “8 THE WINNERS. FIRST RACE—Cyuttioa (9 to 10) 1, Termagent (8 to 1) 2, The Brown Monarch 3, Time—0.58 1-5. | SECOND RACE—Craneaville (3 to 5) 1, B. Doyle (40 to 1) 2, Anna Daly! 3, Time—1.12, THIRD RACE—Petunia (7 to 5) 1, Julia M. (8 to 1) 2, Contentious 3. | Time—68 seconds, FOURTH RACE—Oclawaha (31-2 to 1) 1, Musidora (9 to 5) 2, Locket |3. Time—1.18 4-5, | _— FIFTH RACE—Caledonite (8 to 5) 1, Albany Girl (8 to 1) 2, Ocean Dream 3. Time—i.11, SIXTH RACE—New York 2nd (4 ; to 5) 1, Colonist (41-2 to) 2, Flora 3, Time—1.32 25, AQUEDUCT RACE TRACK, N, Y., April 16.—Thousdnds thronged the track again this afternoon in spite of the eather that madé men long for a warm corner and a bowi of hot toddy. The racing has been more like winter sport than the opening of the spring season, (Continued on Page Thirteen.) VOTE FOR L” STRIKE ALMOST UNANIMOUS Men Favor a Tie- Up, but President Mahon, of the National Organization, Does Not Believe They Will Qtui heir Trains To-Morrow. More than three-quarters of the mem- bers of the “L' employees’ union had voted on the strike proposition this afternoon and it was asserted by (he officials of the unlon that the vote was practically unanimous in favor of going out. But no matter what the decision of the men may be there will be no strike to-morrow unless the men override the rules of the International Amalgamated Association of Railway Employees. with which they are con- *} nected. ‘This is stated on the authority of Wiil- tam D. Mahon, President of the Inte: national Association, who fs at the As land House. If the vote which is being taken at Colonial Hail, One Hundred and First street and Columbus avenue, is in favor of a strike, under the rules of the International Association Mahon will take charge of the situation at midnight. It will become his duty then, under the rules of the’ association, to exert every effort to avoid a strike, He will ask for a conference with General Man- ‘ager Bryan; he will appeal to the Clvic Federation; he will try every means to postpone the resort to radical measure, and even if he falls he will not order a strike until he has tele- graphed to the flve members of the Ex~ ecutive Committee and obtained from them unanimous consent for the pro- mulgation of the strike order. This will take time. Mahon, who is pitterly opposed to a strike, wants che ISHE BA RREL VICTIM? A partial identification of the victi mof the barrel murder! mystery and a clue to the woman who is the decoy note were secured this afternoo! Luigi Castapuia, a Hariem Italian, reported to the police that} ri: his wife ran away several weeks ago with a man who answers to the description of the dead man in the barrel, Castabula thinks his wife is id to have written by the detectives.) # of a member of the Mafia, A man named Chambeau called at the Morgue this: after- noon and identified the dead man as one who had taken tie same elevated express train with him for months.: His identifi- cation was positive, but he could furnish no clue to the name. —- —+4 DR, ROBBINS CHOSEN DEAN last summer. At Cincinnat! —Pitt At St. Louis—End ol urg, 7 comepraammneemenstelpieheneenemerenemend RESULTS OF NATIONAL REAGIE AAMES. pile inrd Shinana, 1 oS nll OF THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, | At a meeting of the trustees of the General’ Theological Seminary this afternoon Dr. Wilford L. Robbins, Dean ofthe Cathedral at Atbany, was elected Dean of the General: Theo« logical Seminary, to succeed the late Dean Hoffman, who-died Cingiinn } St. Louis, 2, P's | crisis vostponed as tong as possible, #0 that no sirlke is likely to occur for several days, unless the men—who do not yet understand the rules of the or- ganization to which they belong—lose their tempers and strike any way. If they do ‘this, they will have to go it alone, and entirely without the support of the International Association. Before the day !s done Mr. Mahon Is going to Colonial Hall and make this clear to the men. It is said that the voting so far has been overwhelmingly in favor of a strike, and the int tonal President does not expe change the sentiment, put he does want them to understand just what they are doing. Some of the younger men got to drink- ing after they had deposited thelr bal- lots, They did a good deal of skylark- ing th the street and attracted attention President Pepper got them {n 4 room and begged them not to drink, but to keep in such condition that they could take their trains out with safety later in the day. Clashes between these men and the pickets who were canvassing “strike” votes were frequent and boded trouble before the clase of the day, Balloting began at 9 o'clock in the As- soclation’s headquarters on the fourth floor of Colonial Hall and. will continue until 10 o'clock to-night, when the vote will be counted ee oh CAME NEAR A COLLISION. Careless Motorman Sent Car Front of Fire Engine Tender, The catelessness of a motorman on @ northbound car of the Madison aye- nue ling came near causing a collision with the tender of Engine Company No, 35 at One Hundred and Twenty- fifth street to-day. The fire engine had turned the corner about 160 feet ahead of the tender, the car being on the south side of the crossing. Buddonly the motorman started the cor across One Hundred and Twen ry passed directly yoafth | strect the, moior zing the rear dasi ifteen iene In the car w ly frightene LOLITA ARMOUR CURED BY DR, LORENZ, CHICAGO, April 16.—Dr. Adolph Lo- renz arrived in Chicago to-day for the purpose of removing the cast from the an operation for of the hip was pe 1 haat ¢ gn removing the cast the feBat oben enfect condition an atient was able pe patee without difioulty * nperALion Waa a comolere sue: to be in Consiant attendanc @ for three or four o certain of & pot ————_— WEATHER FORECAST. Foreonst the thirty-sts hours endivug at 8 l', M. Yeidey | fer. New York Otty and rivtaleys iv tornleh mebesie yay ELL FREE WTCULLAGH AB The Governor Strikes a Hard Blow at the Senators’ Political Supremacy by Nominat- ANOTHER BLOW IS LANDED BY FOUR INSURGENT SENATORS. Brackett, Elsberg, Ambler and Brown Join the Democrats in Defeating the Confirma- tion of Frank M. Baker, Platt’s Man, as. Member of the Railroad Commission, Two severe blows at Senator Platt’s ‘supremacy over’ the Re; State machine were struck to-day in Albany. One was directed by Gov. Odell, who practically removed John Cullagh as State Superintendent of Elections by sending to the Sén the name of Assistant District-Attorney George W. Morgan: for ° office. aS The other was given by four Republican members of the $ They voted with the Democrats and defeated the confirmation of F F M. Baker as a member of the State Railroad Commission. Mr. B lives in Tioga County, where Mr. Platt retains his voting resid The Republican insurgents are Senators Brackett, of | Brown, of Watertown, Elsberg, of New York, and Ambler, of ( PLATT MEN STUNNED BY : APPOINTMENT. OF MOR ALBANY, N, has sent to the Senate the name ot 18 con, George W. Morgan, at present an assist- {ane Goverty Ld the Senator saying recently to unt District Attorney of New York! sentatives of the newspapers the County, to succeed John MoeCuslagh as Govern r would not take a ren: It were offered to him on & Superintendent of Hlections. |Ristier his. too rans knowa the Governor desires 16 almseit. Platt Don't Know Mong thi ala’ not take “kindige The nomination of Mr. Margon to succeed McCullagh 1s the outcome of | the feeling existing between Platt and| “1 do not know Mr, Odell, This feeling was intensified ana| Senator Platt, when the reappointment of McCullagh made | “Ppointment. a political impossibility after the Quigs- | tor Me RTS HED Doblin-Lessler affair in connection y [never heard of him al ‘is the alleged bribery and lobbying for 7 seemed a bit oon Holland torpedo boats before the Naval to the news of the intent Committee of the House of Represen- or ened it oeaitie tatlves. 4 rivate wire from Albany ‘The practical removal of McCullagh! the 5! ook, had Been a severe oae. . he time he was seen by an intendent of Elections has been| 3% {he time he was seen by an E on Ms feelings and was’ pre i announce he had nothing to say tm to the appointment. What he really sald when he the news is a secret between the ator and the man at the otber the wire. was the appeiranee ‘on vhs ace of ator that it was what ‘rranke might aptly term “The blow that killed father.” When an Evening | World feporten: called on Supt. McCullagh with the of Mr. Morgan's appointment there a dramatic scene. The Superintendent sald never a. but wheeled in his chair and cal Sh; bbw alte a Aany, clerk tt camp always have insisted that the Senator would be able to Induce the Governor either to reappoint McCul- lagh or permit him to be a holdover. ‘The Governor's friends, because of Mc- Cullagh's mixing in primary fights with- in the party and his known allegiance to Platt, have insisted that some one with a more judicial temperament be placed in charge of the Bureau. Governor Acts Suddenly. The removal of McCullagh was almost As sudden as when he was removed from, the oMce of Chief of Police by Mayor Van Wyok and Devery was ap-| pointed in his stead. ‘There was no in- Umation that such a thing was going|* to happen at that time, and it was not until the morning when he was actually ordered to resign by Van Wyck or be forced gut that it was known except in the Inner circles that such a step was contemplated. Things haye been going so smoothly so fa MeCullagh was concerned that even some of those close to the Governor were led to believe last week that there had been a truce; that perhaps after all has been confirm 103 has been presented. Baker, Odell’s men, was just been turn for Railroad Commissioner by a 26 to 23. Don't worry, © think some mistake.” The Superintendent ry but was e declan the Governor had consented to keep| bole thing is 4. police Saag McCullagh in office, as Platt, it was vince ant anuary. Tve. hed. $5000 known, was insistent, and Quigg and ‘of it_and not @ cent more. “Maoh Tammany and the Rept ve tried to oust me, but wee find no fault. If Morgan ts an, that my Whole staft will a" Gibbs and other leaders close to MeCul lagh had been urging. his ment on the ground that to replace him would cause a split in the rty locally. Pleaded for McCullagh, They pointed out to the Governor that Did Doblin Cause if se this has been McCullagh had really done n Data A Pri Dobdlin he interest of the Holland B. pany, thi as illegal. and should be 6 Appointed If for no other reason to give to him a clean connection with the W da s Tt is believed that the visit of the; Governor + w York on Saturday last and his fifen to meet and confer with Platt when he met other leaders in the! went to arate and saw toe @ fever, of | MoCulagh. | not on any So tical wnat aa Then @ the cutting down of the @p- | Dut wou pro pri itlon of the office, with the ‘con: old han hington scan- Sullagh yeomed. 30 take M, ch to heart, » Loam me Mie sal “only 4 few 8 a @ Governor, te ei