The evening world. Newspaper, December 5, 1903, Page 1

| f ae Ses a __Harry Davis, the Most Expert Eng PRICE ONE CENT. GHILO OF THE KING: “ Circula FOUND INTHE DEN ~ OF GOUNTERFEITER raver of Plates for Bogus Bills Since the Days of “Old Bill” Brockway, Headed Gang in This City and Boston. HIS OWN CHILD LIVED IN : HOUSE USED FOR PLANT, Gang Was Prepared to Print and Circu- late $1,000,000 in Counterfeit Bills * When Detectives, Who Have Been | Working a Year, Made the. Raid. With the arrest of Henry Davis and two companions in a lonely house at Reverc, Mass., and the capture of seven men in New Work the Secret Service officials believe they have caught the king of counterfeiters and broken up the most dangerous gang that has been organized in recent years, ; In the house at Revere was found the plant of the counter- feiters, The little three-year‘old child of the leader wed found there in charge of Mrs. Moses Novak, wife of one of the prisoners. Not since the days 6f “Old Bill” Brockway and the time that the femous fWebster $10 bill was circulated by the gang that, had for the “shover of the queer” a paymaster in a hat manufactory has there been such an important paid of counterfeiters as that which has just been broken up after operating in New York and Boston. - Chiet Flynn, of the local Secret Service Bureau, arrested Harry Meyer, Benjamin Farber, Jacob Farber, Moses Hawben, Nathan Stein! Harry Stein and Morris Izenberg in New York. THE RAID IN BOSTON. They re supposed to be agents of the Boston gang. Up there Secret- Service Detectives John E. Murphy, of St. Louis; Joseph Murphy, of Bos- ton; Frank Burke, and Anton Ricci arrested Harry Davis, Moses Novak and Joseph Daumliptz at the so-called plant in Prospect avenue, Revere, near Boston. ' : ‘ They got plates and bills valued at $2,000. Only about $500 in bills were found. They were imitations of the $5 Indian note, the $10 Buffalo and the $20 yellow certificate. Just how much money the gang has circu- fated the Secret-Service men do not know. The members were ready, how- ever, to print and float a million dollars in “the queer.” They were doing othing as “coiners.” It will be some time before the whole counterfeiting plot comes out—not until one of the gang peaches. ‘The most interesting character in the gang is Harry Davis, the en- raver and the brains of the band. He is only thirty-seven years old and ‘once worked for the United States Government. He has all the appearance of.a well-bred man, and is acknowledged as one of the most dangerous + counterfeiters in the world. He is a Russian, and according to Chief Fiynn’s men, he went to London a few years ago and While there made $5 notes on the Bank of England and also Russian notes, He is 5 feet.4 inches in height, wears large-rimmed spectacles, has a high forehead ana light hair. He has been known under the Gillases O° Schwartz, Stein, ‘Wieman, Schmidt and Liebedman. i : ‘ NOTES DECEIVE EXPERTS. hy Davis !s so clever at engraving that he can make notes that will de- |} ceive experts, Davis also understands the art of Government Paper manufacture. He has a process of his own by which he cau imitate the silk thread that is a ® part ofcthé genuine Government note. He is wanted in this city on an Gas old indietment for counterfeiting. ' ‘Yhrée ‘reams of fine paper, manufactured ‘by the Pittsfield Paper Mills, of which ex-Gov. W. Murray Crane is the head, led to the arrest of the counterfeiters. The paper is made by a secret process and contains the’ silk threads that are so familiar in genuine nptes, All of the prisoners in Boston were held in $10,000 each, “avis has one of'the most interesting Ajstorles on’ record,” Chief Flynn said to-day. “He has been known to us Since 1895. He ia an expert photo-! @tupher and a clever engraver. We) cbnsider him’ the most dangerous ~eounterfeiter now at large. ‘We heard of him as Lieberman and Smith in Belgium. Later he adopted the name of Philip Schwartz. “Davis came back to America in August of last year. We finally jo- cated him in Revere, Mass. The gang leased a house and Davis, Novak and Joseph Bouwenblitt lived in-it. nae “Old man Novak was the only one of the three who ever showed him- self on the street, and then only to go marketing for meat and vegetables. *Mr, Davis’ and Daumplitz kept close indoors, i > “When we got the word from Chief Wilkie to act we caught old man ‘Novak as far away from the house as we could, > then rishea the house, jWe got Davis and his pal in their working cl J The Secret-Service men have been after Davis gang for the last . |1, Bronx (8 to 1) 2, Magle Flute 3, G J fteea legnths {a front of Morreliton ma a the . e ~ [Cirentation Books Open to All” | tion, Books Open to All.” GE “NEW YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1903. PRICE ONE CEN T-AWAY-DAY OF REVEALS MURDER, EASTERN RACING. | THEN NSH CARBUNGLE’S UL Old Horse Gallops Home in Fea- ture Event of Closing Day’s Sport at Washington—Large Crowd Turns Out ~ ACES ak WAGES, 15:T0-1 SHOT, WINS FIFTH EVENT. EXPLOS TROLLEY SLOT WRECKS WAGOD Bill Curtis Graduates from the| _, 4- Wilkins, of No, 68 We Maiden Class in the Second Race, Beating Bronx and Magic Flute. The badly damaged wagon THE WINNERS. FIRST RACE-The Majer (20 to 1) 1, Fustian (15 to 1) 2, Buttons 3. SECOND RACE-—Bill Curtis (even) THIRD RACE-Bill Ray (2 to 1) 1, Gypsic (12 to 1) 2, Morrelton Chief 3. FOURTH RACE—Carbuncle (7 to 0) 1, Circus (8 to 1) 2, River jPirate 3. \ FIFTH RACE—Wager (15 to 1) 1, LATE WINNERS Fourth Race—Rainland 1, Fifth Rasc—?o . A lasge crowd coleoted, and a bystander, the-wagen out, was severely shocked, s also an epidemic of mumps. SION IN An explosion and fire’ followed the breaking into a trolley slo of a.narrow wheel of a road wagon in front of the Princes Theatre, pn Broadway; this afternon. st One street, the driver, jumped fram the rig and escaped injury. was finally extricated by an in spector of the line and’a policeman, who was badly snocked. 0 ‘MIDSHIPMEN’S NECKS, NOT HEADS, ARE SWOLLEN. ANNAPOLIS, Md., Dec 5.—A large number of cases of ton: sililis prevail among the midshipmen, tracted at the army-navy football game at Philadelphia. . None of the cases are serious AT NEW ORLEANS. Exclamation 2, Morning Star 3. 12011, Lilt'e Scout 2, Brn Chance 3. | Toscan (2 to 1) 2. Mary Worth 3. SIXTH RAGE—Duke of Kendal (3 to 2) 1, Arrahgowan (15.to.1) 2, Wire in 3. yy Fen fl ‘RACH TRACK, RANNINGS, DEKE ‘The eastern, season of racing came to an end this afternoon with the run- ning of the programme at Bennings. | Mrs, The wetither was the finest of the. meeting, and a great crowd came out to enjoy the sport. The card was ex-| The Maximum Stakes, at three ! and two spi€ndia handleaps fur- | nisbed the features that made the pro- gramme more than interesting. ! = ‘The meeting has been a trying one to; “Mrs. La t x j . Lawrence Litworlth, the wife of ‘bookies and players, for the form ré-/a Pittsburg. steel _magnate, dropped versals have beon frequent. ‘dead this afternoon of heart disease th The truck this afternoon was fast andthe store of Henry Koopman, dealer the betting brisk. . |in antiques, at No. 3% Fifth avenue. BIRAT RACE. She, wis vielting New York with her Six and 9 half furlongs. + husdand and they were stopping at the RICH WOMAN FALLS DEAD. AWK ST “Lawrence Dillworth, Wife of a Pittsburg Steel Magnate; Suddenly. Expires at a Fifth) Avenue Establishment,’ - aftanter, welent, Jockey’ St-HUe Fin, Bi Waidort-Astoria, \ jajor, 111. "Hoa per naa fdas ie $32, RB Mr. and Mrs, Dillworth took luncheon 5 " » 4 3 '§ . % together and Mr. Dilworth went down- ft ye a ae 3 town to transact some business, Mrs. 5 > & a0 2 Dilworth started down Fifth avenue ‘Water, 120, Booker. 4 12 7 1 6 10 do some enopping. In front of Iyria, 119, Creamer,..:10 6 & 30 19 ‘.0opman’s, a block pelow the hotel she Paul Curtord ianatiehis x 210 28 19 She staggered Into th : wl Clifford. 195, Mich'ls 10 je staggered Into the store and § ‘Mrs. ¥. Foster, 103. J,Walsnt 10 11 8 8 permission of the proprietor to meee Capeents $00: Kraupe....J1 12 12 25 10 and rest. He Re @ chair near the . door for her. Mrs, | Dillworth ° t Start bad. Won earily. Time—t1.22 2-5. er horinaine, bul Sn coop OL no: understand her, He heard that she lived at the * * immediately after worth collapsed. Mr. kuipman calied ambulance from Bellevue, but when yomau was deal. Aime senger was sent to the Waldorf and A: sistant Ma:ager Barce and two clerks went to Ko.yman's, They were unable to identify the dead woman and Uni aay Tee Water cut out the pace, followed | ASI i itting down Mrs. by the Major and Buttons, They held this order to the stretch, where tho SECOND RACE, ty (Bix furlongs. ne 4 Dilhwo-th was found a card bearings 4 7h name of Mrs, Heath, No. 9 Bast y 1 ATO He 16, Mt oo “@ first mtrect. “Mry Heath was sent for, 10 dy.uut shtidcutified che body. Messengers | top 40! werp gent for to hunt for Mr. Dilkworth, | 1S 6 end whe body was kept in the rey 4 35 8 house “until he gave directions for loeys ‘Shy! : 20 8 i} r 18 100 40 H mecook, 110,MeFad'n.t1 14 14 100 40 Start poor, Won easliy, Time—1.17 8-5, The Bowery rushed to the front and | /¥ get the pace with Magic Flute and | 3) Bronx. They ran this way to the etretch, where Bill Curtis came) through and | = taking the lend won easily Sy two lengths from Bronx. who beat Magic Flute three lergths for the place. M THIRD RACE, about two and a half miles, Rett Str, 2) 4. wil Ty Steeplechare, {iimle Grace, wi, Tahoe i nterock.. i, Walsh. Muraraviate, 100. Mich'ls 5 start fair, Won driving. Mary Worth, Annie Grace and Tosean 4 7:5 ran dn close onder to the stretch, whare Tosoin went to the front and showed 19 the Way to the last sixteenih, where 8 Wager’ challenged and in a hand drive won iby & bead. Toscan was two lengths infront of Mary Worth. SIXTH RACE, Mile and forty yards, 4. Welght, Jovkey, St. Tindale tsa, lake 4 pale, 153. Bamnhantt. MorreltonChief, 147, Tada Woodlands 20 2n ih . Swallwell. 1 wn *Perion, Connelly .- 12 Reis Dineen Phas Robinson. eS 4-4 *Coupt Start food, Won easily. Time—,16. Trapenin: lead until he fell. Rei Hawk then showed “he way. for a bl but soon gave Way to Gypeic and. Billy Ray, woo min (9 docs crter to the far ¥ turn) where Billy Ray, drawing away. won @isily by three length lc WAS Nam 6 5 5 Stat, ST hg s 32 3) urns. TB | Start bod Won itiving. | Time—t.45. | | DR: CYRUS EDSON’S FUNERAL 10, FOURTH RACE, Three miles. ca ‘year or more. They keep track of every engraver inthe country. When ‘an expert leaves a bank-note company ‘the Secret-Service men where he has gone, how much salary he fedgives and what the prospects pre toe ‘him to go to the bad. Such a man is'the “works” of a counterfeiting _ "whether the plant is fixed for domostic or foreign bills, Poss ‘men, who were arrested In New York, were arraigned before-Co: mimioner Stleiée dn the Federal Building to-day and hid for eshestaation j was released “on. $2,000. bail, while § ay ih igi know just | £in0", Seng, Without him the gang could do nothing, It makes no difference amis oe Starter, weight, Jockey. St HIE,’ euinel Tnune. 2 tae TA" 1-6 1 ani i 3 ron, canily Time—.809-0°°°) Carbuncle laid. in behind River vant’ Chrous to" the lant quarter end snes | Home’ an easy winner 'by ax Aver Large A it, Thomas's The funeral of the late Dr, Cyrus. Ei gon was held this afternoon from St. from Circus, who beat ‘Thomas's Church, Fifth avehue and Fif- Sitend Jee. ee ty-third etrect. There was a very lange ~ geven irionge: ‘ i congregation present, which included, many notable men, and floral offers ings were numerous orate, re tr ting. gtarte ores scot sey. Fin, Jee vi, Betting. ay Bt ken to the West baad ts [| Street Station. piteterweient decker, Sumemin, Sie P| Minea pocket of the jacket of BM vis hand In WIGWAM SLATE. Probably Made Up and Carried by Murphy When He Went to Washington to Meet Mayor- Elect McClellan. | The impression prevails in Tammany Hall this afternoon that the slate. is made up and that Charles F. Murphy carried it in his inside pocket when he went to Washington to meot Muyor: elect McClellan last night. ‘Thero appears to be good basis for the assumption that the office of Com- missioner of Bridges will not go to a Br>oklyn man, as has been expected, It remains for Mr. Murphy and the Mayor-elect to determine what faithful Tammany leader shall receive the olum. The McCarren organization, it is be- Heved, has not been insistent for a place ‘on the slate, being content with the 0] borough and county patronage and promises of money to be expended in’ improvements, ‘William Dalton, former Commissioner of Water Supply, who was supposed to have the place wropped to his bosom for two years beginning Jan. 1, is out of it, Mr. Murphy was afrald that Dalton’s connection with the attempted Ramapo gould ‘hurt Tammany Hall, atrick Keenan, hitherto considered as certain of the office of City Chamber Jain, has een switched to the Water Supply placg and the City Chamerlain’s place will go to T. C. T. Crain. Here {s the slate as Tammany at home hi . Police Commissioner, William F. Mc- Adoo. : Corporation Counsel, John J. Delaney. Park Commissioner, Dr, H. A. Cy An- derson, Fire Commisstoner—John T. Onkley. City Chamberlain—T. C. T, Crain. Superintencent of Public \Works— Frank J. Goodwin. Commissioner of Water Supply—Pat- rick Kenan. . Bridge Commissioner—A Tammany leader to be named. Commissionet of Corrections—George Bert, Commissioner of Charities—Dantsl Co- balan, or Thomas Mutry. Dr. H. A. ©. Anderson, who is said ¢o be slated for the Commissioneritip of rks, {8 @ representative German- American. He had charge of the work of the German-American Assogiation during the oampalgn and was’ con- graiulated by Mr. Murphy and Mr. Mf Hellan upon the excellence of dis w fot the Lcket Patrick Keabon controls a gr ing busingss on the lower wes' reganied in ndier of men. as @ great offered to do- i tt he does not the streets as el as they have been under any adthinistration. et FORMER MAYOR GRACE ILL. He Has P me ke Former Mayor William R.‘Grace {s {il at his home, No. 31 Hast Seventy-ninth street, with preumonls, it was at the house to-day that Passed a comfortable in trying to drag}so. 20 mam ‘Thirty-eighth Police Seek Man Who Vis- ited Matthew J. Fitzpatrick’s Home and Told How He Was Slain at Pearson. . ‘ THEY WERE MADE DRUNK AND SHIPPED AWAY. Mysterious Visitor Said He Went to Deliver His Rosary and Leather Purse. 4 ‘ Hundred.and Eighteenth) tapector McClusky sent out a squad of detectives this afternoon to find a ‘man named Murray. who to-day visited ‘the home of Matthew J. Fitspatricit, - told @ remarkable story of ‘et Pearson, Md. . Fitspatnick's body was found on the ‘beach horribly mutilated and the pock- ets turned inside out. He hed gone down ‘the coast as a member of an oys- ter-dredging gang. ‘Tho man, who sald his name was Mur- rey, called at the Fitepatrick home to- Gay and said that he ang Fitspatrick said to have been CON-ana two other men, one of whom was Ther Murphy, left New York on Oot. 3% to go to the oyster beds. He said they had first been made drunk, and had then been shipped away. They served twelve days, he said, and then were de- frauded of the pay which had been promised them. Murray said they had started back for New York, tramping it, when they came to the town of Pearson. There they asked’ to be allowed to sleep in the lock-up bver night, adithey were penni- Tees. Permission was given, and in the morning they fownd they were ptisoners charged with vagrancy. They were ar- raigned before Justice Jarboe, who questioned them snd then discharged them. — Murray saidsthat the Justice them triet| to get then to go back to the oyster beds, butheg nvould not, and were golng away when Jarboe cated Fitspatrick back, Murray and his companions walked away, and when they came back for Fitzpatrick. Murray says, they found pockets .tormed inside out. Then they without waiting to investigate the cause of deatiyor to tell anything about Fits- patrici’s relatives. Murray's object in going to the Fitz- patrick home to-day was to deliver the dead man's rosary and leather purse which he sald Fitzpatrick had given into his Keeping a short time Liefore he was killed, The parents of Fitzpatrick permitted MAE’ ait the’ pace Wie asking for Siurray. They” belleve “he knows, much more of the tragedy than what he told at the Fitzpatrick home. WOMEN CAUGHT IN POLICY SHOP RAID With a Boy and Nine Alleged Players, They Are Arrested by Detectives and Taken to Police Headquarters. In raiding two policy shops this after- noon agents of the Goddard Anti-Policy Society, ariested eleven persons, among them two women and a boy eleven years old. Supt. RD, Burke and Agent P. E. Gray, with three city detectives, first fell on the plgce at No, 42 First ave- nue. which they say was conducted by Mrs. Sarah Brady vTwenty-elghth street. and Edward Vol- ker. | ‘There they found nine persons. Two of them were Kate McKtn| years old, of No. East Fourteenti: Street, and Mrs. Maria Hyer, sixty-nine years old, of No. 402 East Ninth street, | The boy was Harry Dresser, of No. 113] St. Ann's avenue, a grandson of Mrs. Hyer, He said. he had gone there with her and that she had given him a quar-| Tl nzew. sot SWEETHEART HAD RETURNED as He Refused to Release Her From Her tai hurried way and came to New York/54 Trenton avenue. in the best of spirits. After some conversation Mrs. Lewis Icft ‘them ‘alone in the parlor. t Thompson went to the rear of the house and found Mrs, Lewis a! an hour after she had left the young people together, paper antl a pen and ink and returned to the parlor. CAMDEN, N. J., Dec. 5.—Another tragedy lurks in the shadow a murder and suicide committed in this city this afternoon. Delatat Thompson, a young man of Westchester, Pa., shot and killed his 1 heart, Addie Hacker, of Lititz, Pa., and then killed himself. He left a letter addressed to a brother of the dead girl asking him: kill another man whose name was known to the murderer and his heart and {s known'to'the-brother.. The man whose-death is th Tives in Lititz, » : Thompson and Miss Hacker had been engaged for a long were apparently happy until a few days ago, when the girl re Thompson's ring and letters and asked him to release her from tha gagement. This he refused to do and, at his request, she came to this. dead: body on thebeach, with the|to-day to meet him. Z They went to the home of Mrs. P. A. Lewis, an old ‘friend, ADERED HIG IANCEE, THEN _OHUT HIMGEL Dead Girl Begging Him to-Murder/ other Man Whose Name He: Had- viously Disclosed, ENGAGEMENT: RING TO. HIM age Promise, and at His Request Sh Went'to Camden for an Interview, th Tragedy Fellowing. (Special to The Evening World.) Be. time, C When Mrs. Lewis greeted them they appeared to He ask In a few minutes Mrs. Lewis heard the sound of three shots, She hurried to the parlor and found Thompson and Miss Hacker dead on floor, hai’ killed himself by putting a bullet through his brain. Two lettéts were found in Thompson's pocket. The ink on them scarcely dry. Hackér’s handwriting. read: SIX YOUTHFUL BANDITS © HOLD UP TWO CASHIERS.” Armed with Razors and Revolvers They Raic the Postal and Western Union Telegraph ~ his hands, Gray with a revolver, forty-elght | guard at the door, while the remaining four went vullding They rth street two men Il the prisoners were taken to Police Headquarters ‘The police say that the man tn the first raid as Mrs. Sa really Mrs, Edward Voiker, of on of the alleged owners of the tenemen h the supposed policy snop was . She 20 cus- prison- | wagon e tt she w the hous land became so violent that she was taken into custody, WEATHER FORECAST. Forecast forthe thirty-six hours ending at 8 P. M, Sunday for New York Gity and vicinity: Snow flurri| followed by clearing to- night and colder. Sunday partly cloudy and colder; fresh westerly winds.” ) “Notify Wilson Hacker, of Lititz, of Addie’s death. Tell him if my nerve he will take a gun and fix that man whose name I gave him,” ” (Special to The Evening World.) BUFFALO, N, Y.. Dec, 5.—Six young bandits, each arméd with a razor and a revolver, walked into the office, of the 5 | Postal Telegraph of No. £6 East | and Church streets, early to-day and or- cred Cashier John Gray to throw uD ‘The young woman had bean shot twice in thé head. One was signed by Thompson and the girl and was in! it expressed their wish to die together. Phe ‘babe A ee Offices in Buffalo. disappeared Cashler Gray notified the police by wire. ; In less than half an hour from fhe time they appeared at the Postal Tele: graph office the hx=1'++ walked into tye Western Union main office, a short diss This time the leader was Veen Company, at Pearl tance away. One of the bandits covered | maskel. He or” Another stood] turn over everyting In his possesston | The other five were ransicking the 9f- | flo Coken hit the lender with a el into the basement of the ‘ broke open thirty lockers and A desperate struggle foNlowed. Then obpained about $200 worth of plunder. | tne pandits made for aT When they'came to the main floor they) hy Cohen. ‘Phey ma * were about to take the money In the] Conen ran to the poll cashier's drawer, when they were fright-| Ing was stolen tron the ened away, The moment the bandits’ office NEW ORLEANS.| FIRE STAMPEDE IN HOTEL. mamed | WINNERS AT NEW FIRST RACE—Leo Dorsey (3 to 1) 1, Ivernia (7 to 1) 2, Marco 3. SECOND RACE-Tioga (4 to 5) 1: 0 Belle Mahone (2 to 1) 2, Goody Two) — {shoes 3. | THIRD RACE.—Misanthrope (7 to ‘1 and 2 to 5) 1, Wreath of Ivy (4 to 6 for place) 2, Town Moor 3. RACE TRACK, NEW ORLEANS, Deo. |5.—Rain set in after the races were over ‘Friday and there was a steady down- all night, RGagmire when the ra | Bsploding L Hell Boy the Cause of It AIL ‘The explosion of an alcohol lamp ta the apartment “of Smythe Murtin, @ wealthy retired merchant, in the’ tases fonable Carnegie Hill Hotel, northeast corner "of N Street and Madison. avenue, th noon, caused a stampede among, tenants of the place, which: the: had difficulty in checking. hie A servant was using the lamp wheg exploded and a bell-boy turned: Inia alarm without notifying the other. The track resembled a! ple in the hovel. "The test Were com:! of the fire was When tha. became Melos’ vated the place, There wi areerly: the street, dnd for 4