The evening world. Newspaper, January 14, 1904, Page 1

¥ " 1 CLOSES AT LAST PRICE ONE CENT. EDITION NEW YORK. THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1904, " PRICE ONE CEN’: PETER DE LACEY Looks the Doors of His Famous Pool-Room in Forty-Second! ' Street and Refuses to Take Bets. HAS: MADE LONG FIGHT AGAINST AUTHORITIES. | For Many Years He Successful- ly Defied Every Effort to Close \- His Pool-Room, but Finally, ) Surrendered. \ | E 1 i ‘&-convincing illustration of the fact W@aat-the police can close the pool-rooms | fwhen they are backed up by their su-| \pertors was furnished to-day hy Peter WDelacey. For the first time since he ‘@mbarked in the pool-room businésa he ett down his entire machinery this | .. Not only did he receive no in his various pool-rooms, but he Peostved no quotations or results from ‘Whe race tracks. | De Lacey has his headquarters at No. \385. West Forty-second street, midway \Detween Sixth avenue and Broadway. ‘He owns tho bullding. ‘There he has Feceived news from the race tracks by ‘wire and from there he has sent it out | TROQUOIS THEATRE TO BE BURNED AGAIN St sed AA eke Chicago's Mayor Plans to Give Play- house to the Flames So as to Test the Efficiency of City Ordinances Provid- ing for the Safety of the Public, CHICAGO, Jan. 14.—As soon as the Coroner releases ‘his control of the Troquois Theatre the playhouse will again be given over to the flames if plans evolved by Mayor Harrison and Walter L. Fisher, of the City Club, are carried out. Experts who will fight over again the Ioquois conflagration will, have trained firemen at thelr elbow to see that the demonstration of the plans does not bring about any property loss outside the partially ruined playhouse. The purpose of again firing the theatre Is to test the suffleiency of city ordinances, present and prospective. At a conference to-day between Mayor Harrison and Mr. Fisher this subject was discussed exhaustively, and it was decided that nothing that had done in Chicago for many years would approach this plan {n the amount of good for the public. With men who understand every detail of the test to watch every action of the flames and gases, and to regulate éffects by manipulation of the ven- tilators and doors, it was urged that the benefits to accrue from the fire test would be practically inestinable. With the Iroqubis stage filled with excelsior and rubbish and a fire rag- ing thereon, the cdpditions being like those of the fatal afternoon of Dec. 80, the experts expect to learn a great deal abgut the Hames that swept so many lives away. J. R. Freeman, an expett on fires, will be asked to take charge of the by telephone to his pool-rooms and: to test. other rooms paying for his service, Sent Operator Away. ‘The Western Union operator assigned to De Lacey's headquarters to handle the racing veturns reported for duty as | Usual to-day and was sent back to the office. He told the Western Union peo- , ‘pie that De Lacey was not doing bus- | iness, | Nothing ‘but remarkable pressure! could thake De Lacey throw up his bands. He had successfully defied every «Tort made to close nis pool-rooms, and 4 * times the entire energy of the racing | ¢Aicinia had pean directed against him. 1: may ‘he that the yame has been | ‘ing against him of late, ax it has! #)siinst- many pool-room keepers, but fv generaity accepted Idea is that he} (Jor heen forced to close by the vin~ Hive of the police. ’ graph Company is serving 210 other yol-rooms in Greater New York with ults of races, and Police Commls- sidner McAdoo says he knows nothing about it. “E baven't heard of 210 pool-rooms be- ing* Gpen,’ he sald to-day to an, Fvehing World reporter. “I now HoChIng of these statistics, ‘They may have been formed entirely In some one’s imagination. That is all I care to say Shout the pool-room or gambling ques- tion.” Inspector McClusky, Chief of the De- tectlve Bureau, who has charge of all pool-room investigations, was not in his! office this morning, #0 it could not be learned what steps he {s taking to run | down- these 210 pool-rooms, | Inspector Brooks. of the First Inspec- | tion District, however, was more com- municative about pool-rooms. “I called in tweéntysfive precinct des tectiver to-duy.” he said, “and instruct. | ed them to pay particular attention to pieces suspected of hein pool-rooms. told them to: get evidence against them, ‘iE, possible; in fact, to do everything | ‘they can to close these p! 4 All Pool-Roome Closed. | , Soom after an Evening World reporter , saw Commissioner McAdoo, Inspector Brooks, who had just finished @ private ‘talk to twenty-five precinct detectives, fave out this statement: " Vo" have now seen every inspéétor, can- tain snd precinct detective. in Manhat- tan, the Bronx and Richmond, and [ have told them all that if they have ‘ny notion that this ix to be a wide- epen town they are very much mistak- en. They have been ordered to keep svery pool-room, gambling-house or uther illegal resort in their jurisdiction closed tight and have been warned that they will be held personally reaponslble for any violation of this order.” 2 Magistrate Breen sitting In the Tombs Coure this afternoon declared hat there wus no law to prevent men from going | Auto alleged pool-rooms. Twelve men | were arreigned by plain‘clothes men at- tached to the Church street tsation, on tehenical charges of asaault, It was al- | leged that they had attempted to enter alleged pool-rooms on Cortlandt and | Dey. streets und Wets Broadway. All Were Ulscharged, : er POSTMAN FOUND DROWNED. Michael Dissett'n Body showed Mligns of Violent ‘Treatment. Michiel Dissett, a mail carrier, of No. 53. Prospeet street, Brooklyn, was found | drowned to-day In the Eust River at the foot of Washfugton street, Brook- left wrist was broken find he showed’ signs vt violent: treat- ment, his head and body’ being badly | bruised, The police do not believe that he met with foul play, Disnett'a_body was identified at the Brooklyn Morgue by Mixs Mary Young. who lives in the same house where the mall carrier had @s home, Miss Young sald that Dissett came home last night, ha@, supper, then toox off his. uniform announced that he wan golig out for a while. He wa; mpon-he wept ares opine was heard fh the river, , s er debe asta coma a leanwhile ‘the Western Union ‘Tele: |; , tighted again. WADOO IN FAVOR in excellent spirits |day that he had recelyed Covumissioner Six additional churches were ordered closed to-day. A number of lodg- ing-houses also will suffer in consequence of the strict enforcemgat of city ordinances. STEAMER SIGHTED VESTA, HEAL MAY BE NOORDLAND PLAYED, Wik Red Star Liner Passed Nan- Second Choice in Second Eveat : at-New Orleans Comes’ Behind and Captures First Honofs. tuoket Early To-Day and Of- ficials Believe It May Be Their, Disabled Boat. At the offices of the American line at Broadway and Rector street, it was sald to-day that a revort Id been re- | ceived from Nantucket, which sald that | ‘a Red Star liye steamship had passed there this morning. "The steamship is believed by the off- éials of the American and Red Star lines to be the Noordland, which was | sighted in a disablea condition by the steamship Cornishman Jan. z. ‘The Noordiand left Liverpool for Phil- adelphia on Dec. 3) and the Cornishman left the same port the day following. While in a storm the Cornishman sighted the Noordland in midocean, The teamship Was hove to and signalled s had been disabled. ‘fhe rough sea prevented the Cornish- man from rendering any assistance to the vessel, and the Noordland was not ‘The Noordland ts now two days behind the time she is sched- uled to be in Philadelphia, THE WINNERS, FIRST RACE—Lady Lavish (9 to 1) 1, Julia M. (6 to 1) 2, Dusky 3. SECOND RACE—Vestry (3 to 1) 1, Ethel Wheat (2 to 1) 2, Tioga 3. THIRD RACE~Scorpio (8 to 11 Frank Bell (7 to 5) 2, Clangor 3, (Special to The Evening World.) NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 14—The track iwas fast to-day for the first time in ‘over a week, The improvement in the } Rone had # tendency to bring out a bétter class of The second Juvenile scramble of the meeting proved the feature of the sport. The layers been getting worst of the breaks lately. teen bookies are now in line, Frank ‘Tyler, who has been confined to his room for a week with a severe hors have the Only ne- cold, was at the track to-day and helped Bob ‘Turner operate the “big store.”’ It seems that Alex Shields was a trifle premature when he gave out the Information that he had signed Jockey H, Phillips. Shields and the boy's father agreed on terms Tuesday, and Jack Phillips made an appointment ty meet Shields and sign the contract that night. He now objects to several clauses in the contract and the deal ts hanging fire. Fred Cook and Charlie Ellison are try- ing to keep the boy in the West, Cook has offered $7,000 for him. FIRST RAC! OF THREE PLATOONS Police Commissioner, with Mo- Avoy, Cortright and Brooks, Will Investigate Matter Thor- oughly. That Police Commissioner McAdoo ts in favor of restoring the three-platoom Six furlongs. ‘system was shown to-day, when he an> vhs. Jocks. St.Hit.Fin, suttlRt nounced that he had appointed a spe- | $4 aie MB, can Pe cial commission to investigate the mat- | Bu 2. an ie Hai W'th of Ivy, 113, PI a ter thoroughly. " ty eR, 102. Hen’ay “ i - i he 14.5 “The commission,” said the Commis nd. 105, Robbing, § 6: 7% sioner, “will be composed of Deputy | Bride, 105, Lindsey & 8 McAvoy. Inspectors Cortright and . Minges, (an at tm Brooks, and myself, 05, Munro 9911 Jog “We wilt at first hold private con-| Start good! Won easily Time—t.t4 ferences, ut which we shall try to reai ECOND RACE, Seven furlony an understanding as to the best platoon Hetting. uystem for the men, Later we will] Starters whts. Jocks, StHICFin. str" TH ve public meetings in the trial room, [kn Wheat, 1k Liveen $ fixd 5 at which the members of the foree will LiKe; ee 4 2h 10 4 be permitted to give their views, Hebe.” 108." Jenkin. 1 ee a “1 do not hesitate to say that I am) Dr Hart, 17, 319. 100 wo in favor of the three-platoon system. Circus Girl100. Helen 4 44 he Is I also Want more men. But efficiency | Stunts, 106. Phillips..., 7 or ne ty) yd comes betore everything else, Venus Victrix,10d°Mind'ri0 81510 jog 33 ‘Commissioner McAdoo said also that! Start Kod.” Won easily. ‘Tine—1 28 he had pot vet decided upon the que: THIRD RACE. toh’ of keeplag prtrolmen at the the , Six furlongs. tres for olla ime. . : " suaern, wha: ook i WILL ‘TACKLE BRIDGE CRUSH, | rane nen, 10, rul Mayor WeCh with Comm! Beat. Mayor McClellan next takes up. the problem of the bridge crush, He ssid to- wd 8 4 Won driving, Time—1,18 3-5, DIES FROM ILLUMINATNG Gas, Jauper Wandle, forty-five years old, bookkeeper, died In the No k “He wos ay Heat's report and woul. act on\the mat- a to. xe ‘ueatton ‘ane on ‘Twenty-fourth mn PRR TE TE SPECIAL EXTRA. WHOLE TOWN AFIRE, WITH A. GALE BLOWING HELENA, Mon,., Jan, 14.—Fire at Havre, Mon.. to-day. wisi destroyed much ppl Started anew this afternoon, The big Havre Hotel, new Mcintyre Opera House and numerous bui ings have already been destroyed or are. doomed. The entire northwestern. portion of the:town is threatened. The wind is blowing forty miles an hour, LATE RESULTS AT NEW. ORLEANS. Fourth Race—Capt. Arnold 1, Tribes Hill 2, Ethics 3, Fifth Race—Friar Tuck 1, All Scarlet:2, Dan Horne 3, Sixth Race—McWilliams 1, Lou Woods 2, Baronet 3. ms Py eben Fb : BECHTEL ASKED ECKSTEIN TQ END. LIFE WITH HIM, ‘ALLENTCWN, Jan., 14.—It was announced this afternoon that Alois Eckstein. who was acquitted P seiapeyee will go on the stand to-morrow and testify against’ Mabel Beohtel’s mother. He will swear that Tom Bechtel, brother of the-murdered.girl who committed. suicide, asked him also to end his life. Eok- stein refused, saying “I’m innocent of Mabel’s blood.” GIRL WHO PLEASED - KING WITH MUSIC This is Miss Gertrude Peppercorn, a* beautiful English girl, who played before King Edward, won his appla: and who is. now bound for Ameria, to appear in a musicale at Carnegie Hall on Feb. 7. She will arrive in.New York on the steamship Cedric and will be welcomed in New York by many TURNED RUNAWAY friends and music lovers who have heard her perform on the plano, Miss Peppercorn is the daughter of Alfred Peppercorn, an English ar- tist. King Edward, then the Prince of Wales, lieurd her play when she was a child and was delighted with her. After ehe became'a woman she ap- peared before him often and her playing never failed to please him. Peet tt pe cy Schorer, of No. 188 Went Eighteenth street), He'ls a’green animal and had never been ‘tried in harness before. Barney Schmidt, one of Schorer's em- ployees,. hitched tim to a heavy paint- ers’ wagon and sbtarted to drive him up the street. ‘The horse was skittish and shied at everything. In an effort to discipline him Schmidt touched him Nightly with his whip. In & second the horse was o frat full speed. Schmidt couldn't hold him and | was unable to turn him to the right or left, “As the hofse nea! the corner jor Sixth venue Schmidt noted the crowded § ot and realized that prompt measures were INTO A WINDOW Horse Dashed Upon Sixth Ave- nue ‘Sidewalk, and Only in That Way Could: Driver Avert Loss of Life. necessary if a tragedy was to eb ted. Meanwhile she shouts of Schmidt and the warning 8 of men who ran up the street ahead of the runaway to warn jestrians, had precipitated smull-sized panic, and when the runa- way reached Sixth avenue, women and children were running to the right und bia not getting out of the danger Several hundred women shoppers on Sixth avenue, near Highteenth street, were thrown into panic this afternoon by @ runaway horse which dashea through Eighteenth street to Sixth ay nue, climbed up on the crowded sid walk and was about to plunge into a crowd of women and children, when] Mite the ela turned him into the plate glasx window jjarthwest corner. of a corner store, thus saving x number Schmidt was th ‘of. petennin Enbas gilonia indiivies. the sidewalk and ‘The horse belonged to Frederick 8. . Realizh at he would have snttinve Wimdte or some ae ene people on the street, Sohthidt mude a mighty effort and succeeded , horse up on the sice led Mis head around. 11 (turning the ud he imal Phen the ai ot at the Is seat to red, TI The aad legs, hare War CHE 2bov but no. GEORGE STORM KILLS HIMSELF Well-Known Cigar Manufacturer Commits Suicide in His Office «with a Revolver After the Day’s Business. DREADED OPERATION FOR APPENDICITIS. Had Been Under the Knife Once, and Feared He Might Have to Undergo It Again—Grew Rich with Famous Firm. George Storm. one of the best known cigar manufdcturérs in° this country, and a wealthy man, killed himself late thle afternoon while sitting at his desk In his office at Xo 28 East Twenty- seventh street, by shooting himself in) the head back of the right ear. Mr. Storm had recently! undergone an operation for appendicitis. and his doo- tors informed him that anotiier would probably be necessary. He worried over this considerably, an@ st in beltéved that it so impaired his mind that he preferred death to n second operation. ‘The office In which Mr. Storm killed himeelf ie in the big olgar factory and tobacco warehouse just back of the Lor- raine apartments. at Third avenue and Twenty-neventh street, It Was there that the cigar manufacturing firm of Straltion’& Storm, became famous. Af- fer the. establishment of the trust Mr. Storm beoame president of the ‘Owl Commercial Company, & branch of the International ‘Tobacco Company, and conducted his’ business from the old quarters. ‘ep Mr. Btorm went to hi soffice from his home im the Sdvoy Hotel #t the usual | hour to-day ‘and attended ri the ordi- nary way to his tisua? routine business. He hed dictated a number af letters @ teenographer and seen several bunl- eas men who called on him. al je Fired. At thé fictory tt sald ihdt after the stenographer. the dip- tation of Mr:\Bterm far several letters she left ify private 'oMcé, and was. hai ly out of ‘the door. when she heatd a mployer fall from his chair to the floor. Runnt working se told tvem that Mr. Storm had shot himself, and. one of the meri ran to: thé: driig tsore on, the corner /seeking slumber with his head on his desk. His assistant, George M. where a clerk telephoned to Bellevue | tock care of the work of selecting Hospital for an ambulance. ‘Tl who came with the ambulance’ sa! Mean time @ policeman’ on the bea perceiving the excitement, had entered the offices. ‘Thén the doors were locked and word Was telephoned to members of the Storm family at the Savoy Hatel, N Permitted to Enter, MAG. BECH i} the District-Attorney, and two of his best friends, Dr: J. D. Christman BECHTEL IN HYOTERIGG ADH Whenever She Hears a Reference to th Son Who Confessed He Was the Si Slayer and TWen Ended His Own Life. PROSECUTING ATTORNEY : AGAIN BEYOND RESTRAINT, Breaks Away from His Friends During R and Is. with Difficulty Brought Back Court—His Assistant, George M.- Takes Charge of Case and Addresses Jur (Special to The Evening World.) 4 ALLENTOWN, Pa., Jan, 14—Dhe hope that District-Attorney Lic! walner would be able to attend to the business of the prosecution during the trial of Mrs. Gatherine Bechtel was shattered at the doon Six Jurors had been secured, the District-Attorney had been warn Court that lis conduct of yesterday must not be repeated, and it that everything would go smoothly, ‘ ; References to the gulcidé of Tom Bechtel, who committod sulel cell in the jail here last October wiile-wmder arrest on shspicion of } murdered his sister Mabel, caused old Mrs. Bechtel to weep 40 hyeteri that it became necésedry to take het from court. This appeared 16 ¥ Jeremiah Roth, volunteered to take care of him during’ recess. He got away from them and before they caught him he had reduby the visible supply of liquor in Allentown to an appreciable extent. Wae he came into court this afternoon escorted by his friends he lost no time \the jury, and the box was filled 1 afternoon. “ MRS. BECHTEL SUFFERS DEEPLY, ¥, At évery méntion of the suicide of her son Mrs. Bechtel broke Her three daughters sat about her at the defendants’ table this When the jury had been ‘completed the case was opened by, Asst District-Attorney Lutz.” He said the prosecution's theory was that Bechtel’s brother Tom; who comniitted suicide in jail, killed her, and 4 ‘Those inside of the office would not permit any Gne.to enter, sending back word that they: were waiting for either a Coroner Or for some member -of the dead man’s family to come. The po- lceman would not go ont to tell what he. had learned, and ovnsequently no report of the suicide was made at the Enat Twenty-second street police ata- tion, ? 4 : ‘The stenographer, who hed besh-the first tn, the offfee, Hppeaved at the tac: tory windows oogaslonully and seemed tical, but she could not be induced ink. At Sa Hotel the jorance of id not even say lerks professed i the dead man's the tragedy. and anything concerning fainlly. MOTHER RESCUES BABES, Carries Them Oat. Marion and Helen Orvine,- aged four aud glx years respectively, wére lere by thelr moth Mra. Hélen Orvine, of No, 20 Washington avenue, the Bronx, in & room on the upper Moor of the house to-day. While fire to a lounge and the house soon full of smoke. ° After ‘everybody had fied. from meni bered t play the children set was to the top floor, gathered ch: curried them out to safety. Some po- cer then went-in und extinguished the flames, which did about $500 damage SS KILLED BY A FALL. m Working” Alone Lay Some Vie ‘ v jetore He Was Disvovered. NEWARK, N. J. Jan. 14—John Shields, forty years old, who lived at No. 3 Bruen street, had his skull, frac- tured to-day ky a fall from a Indder at the Carl Paas Brewing Company bulld- ing, on Scott street. He was taken, to st. Jamen's Hospital, where, he died in @ short time. Shields was a plumber-by trade, He had been working in the building re- pairing some pipes. He wis up on a ladder about fifteen feet from the ground when he lost his balance and fell, There Was no one in that part of he lay on the floor for re he was discovered, the building, some time | jmpreselye. All the‘tron determination that made Mr. Trexler a Judge Mrs. Bechtel, the defendant in this case, harbored and defended Tom was hiding evidences of the crime. ey At this point Mrs. Bechtel removed the widow's’ mourning cap and * she was wearing and burst into a fload of tears, covering her face mourning handkerchief. Her daughters hurried from their chairs to. alde, bending over her to comfort her, MRS. BECHTEL CARE WORN. ‘Phe Bechtels arrived at the court-house half an hour before o time this morning. Mrs, Beclitel looked very’pale and careworn. Her daughters, Martha aud Mrs. Allison Bropst, of Allentown, and Mrs. Davis, of Philadelphia, wore deep ‘black gowns and mourning veils. son# Oharles and John sat at the end of the row. « The.Judge asked of the District-Attorney, ‘What cases are you to try?” ‘ ‘ ¥ “I am ready to try the four Bechtel defendants on charges of being! at cessories before and after the death of Mabel Bechtel,” was the ans | Turning to Capt. James L, Sohaadt, chief counsel for the Bechtels, District-Attorney said, “I am ready to‘try them all together if you: Capt, Schaadt replied: “I demand to have my clients tried se} . The District-Attorney, responded: “Then I shall call first tho case agi rs. Catherine Bechtel.” Raising his voice, he said: “Mrs. Catherine Bechtol, come forward. Gently escorted by Mr. Schaadt, Mrs. Bechtel left her family and to@ie seat at the defendant's table, flanked by her lawyers. $ | JUDGE WARNS PROSECUTOR, : Judge Trexler at this juncture said: “I shail expect this case to be gun, continued and ended in an orderly manner. I do not want another disgracefal exhibition as was witnessed here yesterday.” 9% ‘That this announcement was made in a quiet tone made it all the mos | M A Be, ae tore he was forty-two was to be heard in that statement. ‘The District-Attorney called on Mrs. Catherine Bechtel to stand up & be arraigned. She arose without a falter, despite a motion on the part her lawyers that she shouldn't. st In’an Irritated tone Mr. Schaadt said: “I object to having this poor acoused mother arraigned; It isn’t necessary, The laws of Pennsyivi have abolished arraignments in all cases except murder. She is ¢ha with heing an accessory, but the charge is not murder.’ “. ‘The Judge said it would not be illegal to arraign the defendant, wasn't necessary, and the District-Attorney desisted. Capt. Schaadt ty gaid: “Mrs. Bechtel pleads not guilty.” Capt. Schaadt continued: “I expect this case to be tried with sense. or exhibition.” a WEATHER FORECAST. Forecast for the thirty-elx hours ending at 8 P. M. Friday for New York Gity and vicinity: Generally fair and about 6 degrees colder to-night; Friday fair; brisk. west. erly winds, THE TESTIMONY BEGUN. ‘The prosecution called as its first witness George Leiby, the Ie rier, neighbor of the Bechtel family, who told the same story finding of Mabel's body in the alleyway that he told yesterday of Alois Eckstein, : George A. Kooher, the second witness, stated that he and and Mr; Merkle were the first persons to-arrive after the B hurried home and sald Mabel was killed. When they got, there had already been stretched across the entrance to the alley \ * rs - Pi