The evening world. Newspaper, January 21, 1904, Page 1

| \ o PRICE ONE CENT. SAD ‘TENNESSEE AND SULLY WAS ‘IT’ Cotton King Makes His Debut on the Stock Exchange and What Old Brokers Did to Him Was Plenty. WHEN HE EMERGED ~ HE NEEDED A NEW SUIT. He Also Looked as if He Had Been Ridden on a Rail, with; Tar and Feathers for a) Transfer. Daniel J. Sully, the king of the cotton market, made his debut on the floor of the Stock Exchange this afternoon, and they didn't do a thing to him. Inas- much as he hasn't been doing a thing to the cotton bears for a long stretch of months he took all that was coming in a meek and humble spirit. Mr. Sully knew that he was going to get initlated when he appeared at the door, but he determined to make a sprint for the Chairman's desk and get as far as possible on the way before the inauguration of the ceremonies, He did not count on the doorkeeper. “Tennessee,” howled the doorkeeper, &s soon as the cotton king got inside. On the Stock Exchange this is the cue for a rough-house. Not a man on the floor missed his cue in the case of Sully, The brokers had armed themselves with miniature cotton bales, bunches of raw cotton, packages of absorbent cot- ton, rolls of cotton-batting, and supplies cotton sundries. ‘They moved on Bully in a body. The battle cry was, “Use no hooks!” When they got through with Daniel J. Sully he was divorced from most of his clothes and looked as though ne had been ridden on a rail with tar ana | feathers for a transfer. His smile dia not come off throughout the operation, and now that he is a full-fledged mem- Yer of the Stock Exchange he has a chance to get even, Sully made hin first deal on the| before the cotton was brushed from his clothes, He bought 1,000 pharés of Southern Pacific. . Refore starting for the Stock Hx: change. Sully got under the cotton mai Ket and gave it a prodigious boost. In this he was assisted by a number of | Wall street operators, who bought ; heavily and assisted in the upward tnovement of prices, March cotton sold up to 14.2, which is 29 points higher than last night; May Tore to 14.0, or 24 points over last nisht’s priee; July to 14.76, 25 points up; 15 points up, and Octo- a gain ot 4 a sreniniee Hipaiots nts. PEACE COUNCIL TC AVERT WAR iernstiona Gone Commission Sends; a Note to Powers Asking Set- tlement of Clash Between Russia and Japan. PARIS, Jan, 21.—It has been learne.’ In official quarters that the Internationat Peace Commission, having its quarters at Berne, which is an adjunct of The Hague arbitration tribunal, has sent a ciréular note to the powers ask- heaa- Ing for the adoption of means to secure \ settlement of the Russo-dapanese con- troversy. . The note has received serious atten- tion from some of the governments, in- cluding, it {s understood, that of Wash- ington, which has taken steps to learn the attitude of the foreign governments toward the proposition. It is expected that France will not ‘ct upon the note, as Foreign Minister Deleasse has already taken what is considered to be more effective means of exertingyinfluence upon Russia ae JAPAN INSISTS 9 ON FULL ACTION. | TOKIO, Jan, 21—The Government, which has so far not received any coomunication from Russia, remains silent, awaiting a formal response to is note, mere acceptance of Japan's proposals will not suffice, Japan will unquestionably insist upon | Our L £0 some definite plan of mere promises, meludiny of the Russian fleet in Japanese waters, action besides ‘ the Government of Japan has ex-| 2 pended a Jarge amount of money in veparuuons tor War aad is now ready to fight, and is naturally unwilling to disarm unless absolutely that her rights will be safeguarded, the Government is now considering el for coast detense, wich as Joely watching the spread disordur in Corea, and while. con ving the possible necessity of inter: vention for the protection of the und. fovalgn’ residents, hesttater th the matter of despatchitie a larger force thin that there now, og account of t yaisting delicacy of the general situ fon. Si PETERSBURG, Jan, patch from t news recelyed ‘QUTSIDERS WIN a reduct uction | « convinced | F Japan. | TRAIN ROBBERS GET $80,000 Gang Wrenches Safe from Steel Fastenings on Flying Train, and Gets #way with Rich| Plunder. MISSED BY MESSENGER ON SUNSET LIMITED. | San Francisco Police Trying to| Trace the Men and Detectives, Working Along Southern Pa-) sific Road. I | a SAN FRANCISCO, robbers stole the iron safe from th press car of the Sunset Limited, north- bound, on the Southern Pacific Railway near San Luis Obispo to-day, and it ts Jan. understood the robbers secur amount of treasure from tl strong box, the sum being P high as $50,000. This, however, was denied at the of- fice of Wells, Wargo & Cr i | Hing in | ‘The Sunset Limited was tr two sections, and it was in of the | express cars of the second section that | the robbery occurred. ‘The express messenger, T. Sullivan, | had two cars to look after, and shortly left Bo train wak nearing Marquierote he discovered the pss of the safe. He had been working In the forward express car and as soon as he went to after the train and while the Luis Obispo un the rear he made the astounding dis- | covery that the safe had been} wrenched from the corner of the car| where it had been secured by heavy steel bars and carried away, ‘The messenger immediately gave the warning, the train was stopped and | word was wired along the line to look | out for the robbers, The train reached this city to-day and detectives were at | ‘once sent to the scene of the robbery. AT NEW ORLEANS Shortcake, at 6 to 1, and Felix, Bard, at 8 to 1, Take First Two Events at the Crescent y Track. THE WINNERS. ' FIRST RACE—Shortcake (6 to 1) 4, Reaponeive (8 to 5) 2, Snow Cup 3. » | | SECOND RACE—Felix Bard (8 to) 1) 1, Caterpilar (13 to 5) 2, Circus Girl 3. THIRD RACE—Clangor (9 to 2) 1, Big Ben (2 to 5) 2, Parisienne 3, .—The Pa- NEW ORLEANS, Jan. trained by geant, in Mcbgle's stable, . H. Roller, died here Jast night. The, Ne wns a cheap selling plater. Ida | Penzanee, which was reported to have been killed Wednesday, Is entered In the first race Friday. Mattle Orr was the name of the mare Killed, She was in the same stable with Ida Per eo and ereatly resembled tho latter “Pittsburg Phil” and party left for Los Angeles last night. It drizzled last night and the rain came down at inter- vals to-day. ‘The track was sloppy, but there was a good bottom to It. With- drawals were numerous In all the races, Big Ben frightened everything out of the third event and in consequence Street's big sprinter, who is extremely partial to a muddy track, was held at prohibitive odds. Jockey Romanellt has received in- structions to join the W. C. Whitney stablé at Aiken on Feb. 1. He came here to ride all winter for 8. V. Ab and Company. in order to ac} ‘They have released him Whitney »mmodate M: FIRST RACE. Six furlongs. Starters, whts, dock 8, Shortcake, 112, Ri ive no Aiconmiin, 10, O'R HV. Henneasy 3 5 ne 22 100 18, Time—1.15 1-5 Betting StHIC Fin, Str, Caer ae Le} maintained M Nicol. . t. 110, Higginks 32 Bo Start good. Won easily, Tin i} THIRD RACE. Six furlongs. n whts,, jocks, St.Hf, Fin. disn the fee gpily, 14, assured "Tok | residents from their hou FLOOD PERILS IN THE MILE WEST Rivers Swollen py Rains and Breaking Ice Sweep Along De- stroying Property and Menac- ing Lives of People. MEADVILLE Jan, 2.—An Ive- gorge on Mill Ruin caused that stream to overtlow to-day portions of Water street were submerged, The water got Into a number of stor dwellings, no serious damage has but so far resulted. Phe entire suving property tuking steps to meet ened tire de ind the citizens ar the peril Uh PITTSBURG, Jan, 2% —Preparations fre being made here for a br up in the rivers and a ftivod to-moraw is a result of the warm weather and (ue heavy‘ rains of the pust’ twenty-four Jhours, ie ter Midgeway has ar- {ranged tor hourly reports from the headwaters, as sufficient rain has fallen |to bring out the tee and cause a flood, T indications both the Alle en and Monongahela will break | up about the s: time, and both rivers comjng out at once will endanger mill- fons of dollars’ worth of floating prop- erty. If the Youghlogheny comes out with the other two the course be much greater. danger will of The residents of the Idwer part of Allegheny are about ready for the ex- pected flood. Many families have re- moved their household the | second floors and made tion for the flooding of thelr when the high water comes. Business houses which are affected by floods on both sides of the river have also made preparations, and in antici- pation of sudden high water the fi rranged for skits front aud assist said he is not d the agser-, of Allegheny to patrol the w Forecaster Ridgeway an alarmist, but he ventu don that some time Pittsburg will Luve a forty-foot stage of wo “LT enough rain should | two at this peric sald he, “there is sufficient snow on’ the ground to canse just such a stage.” ‘This would exceed the floods of 18% and 1832. all up the —_—>+— CINCINNATI IN PERIL FROM ICE GORGE. CINCINNATI, Jan. 21.—The large ice gorge in the Ohio River between Lud- low, Ky., and the western part of this city gave way to-day, As it was below the Cincinnati harbor, no damage was done here, but lower points have been warned, Great apprehension ix felt tn the harbor here on account of Ice gorges up the river that are expected to break soon, as it is xaining to-day throughout the Ohio-Valle; oS — ICE GORGE TOWERS ting unconscious in @ chatr, « wound in his head and a revolver by | TO TOPS OF ‘HOUSES. DAYTON, O,, Jan. 21.—An ice gorge: housetop high, has formed at Steele's dam, {n the Miami River, north of this ty and serious results are threatemed. Peuple at Riverdale and North Dayton (Continued on Second Page.) NE W YORK, SPECIAL THURSDAY, J NUARY 2 : 104. EXTRA. SAW SLAYERS CARRY BODY OF BECHTEL GIRL ALLENTOWN, Pa. Jan. 21.—Mrs. Catherine Bechtel, centinuing her*testimony, told about findi-~ the body of har She had told about having night, and of having seen two to oc a bag of potatoes from ' murdered daughter Mabel in the. alley. seen.a carriage there during the men careying-what she supposed a neighbor's farm. She did not find the body until next morning. This corroborates the theory of the defense that Mabel wa s murdered at a read-house and that her body was taken to the alley by the murderers, The family had no suspicion about Mabel's’fate until it was ‘earned she had not returned that night from:a drive. , LATE RESULTS i NEW OR/LEANS. Fcurth Race—Lauralighter 1, Ethics 2, Hands Across 3. Fifth Race—Friar Tuck 1, Garret Wilson. 2, St. Resolute 3. Sixth Roce naveeeicl Ne ‘AGED MAN ENDS LIFE BY SHOOTING John J. Johnson, Notary Public,’ Complaineo of Pain in His Head and Told His Family that He Intended to Kill Himself. “JominctJetnuwom seventy-two: vents ol, a notary public, shot himself to-day 1 his home, on the fourth floor of th house at No. 46 First avenue, the wound proving fatal gn hour later. His wife and his daughter Emma, the latter twenty-four years old, went to a neighboring store together, and wh they returned they found Jolson sit- bullet ms ce were notif sent tor Bellewue Hospital, where soon after his arrival. He had poor heaith several years and ré nad complatned of wevére pains in his On recovering from the last at- | ok gf these pains he told his wife that if ever he suffered again from them he world Kill himself. d, and he was WEATHER FORECAST. Forecast for the thirty-six hours ending at & P. M. Friday for New York City and vicinity: Rain to- night; Friday, rain or enow; fresh to brisk easterly winds. Ace ee ‘Free Admission 2, Lee King 3. FIGHTERS, HELD FOR GRAND JURY “Kid” Carter and Joe Choynski Put: Under Bonds of $500 | Each on the Charge of Prize- Fighting. in Boston, ———— ROBTON, Jens 2l.—Tee Choynski and id" Carter, who were arrested last ‘Tuesday night under the statute cov- cring prige-fighting inthis State, were held in $5900 each for the Grand Jury. ‘The casew of thelr seconds will be dis- pose of latef. —— ‘POLICEMEN AS PALLBEARERS led at Funeral to Balk Strik- ing St. Loujs Drivers. LOUIS,” Jan, 21.—At the request si. lot a firm of undertakers to-day four policemen were detailed as pallbearers at the funeral of Frank Magin, which Magin wi Union and took place this afternoon, 4 member of the Waiters’ ‘| his friends were all members of unions. family and undertakers sought pallbearers from among these men, but they met with refusals because non- union drivers were to be employed on the carriages. Fifty lverymen and undertakers we sworn in as private watch and others were notified by members o! the Liverymen's Association to apply | for police rights at once, the better to | protect their property during w STUDY OF MRS. CATHERINE BECHTEL, SKETCHED FOR THE EVENING WORLD BY ARTIST MORTIMER «| Fletohner to an Evening World reporter he ws ‘ Circulation, Books Open to All.”’ ‘HAD A PLAN TO. KILL ROOSEVELT Lunatic Wrote to Commissioner McAdoo that Mysterious In- fluences impelled Him to As- sassinate President. HAS BEEN EPXRESSING ANARCHISTIC VIEWS. | | | | | Told Persons in Boarding-House He Was Going to Washinaton, Where’ His Deed Would Benefit Entire World. Herman Erler and his desire to as] sasninate President wevelt are both confined in the pxycopathic ward at Bellevue Hospital Up to yesterday the assassination design was a secret with Erler, but he wrote to Commisstor McAdoo . and Detective-Sergts, Krauch and nf were sent to hin home. ast One Hundred and Seven! to arrest hir ina hurry, | Erler is a peculiar would-be assassin, in that the job of Killing the President! | was forced upon him. He asserts that| he fought against the plan, but a mysterious agency worked upon him until he was forced to compliance ® last resort he wrote to the Commis: | sioner of Police just as he had com- plied arrangements to go to Washing- ton ‘There ia no doubt about the Insanity of Erler and no telling how soon might. become dangerous had he not been apprehended. He is small, but wiry and poss sex a great deal of cun- ning, When the detectives arrested him he said that. he had just arranged to go to Washingto! Wrote to Co Commissioner received the letter from Erler to-day, It was a long recital of trouble, starting, out. with the statement that a seéret organization, “not plainiy visible," had been for three years irying to force him to com- mit aulcide. Of tate, especially since the change in the municipal adminiatra- tion, Erler wrote, the influence of the secret organization has been partiou- larly strong, going to the extent of forcing him, to contemplate the aassas- sination of the President, The malign influence, according to Erler, was exercixed upon him by means | of electric rays and waves. He shows & sore pot on his back which he anys is the entering point of the disturbing rays, When the rays get to work they knock jis body ten or twenty times in succession and subject him to powerful shocks. As long as hix mind is recep- Uve to the suggestion that he kill Presi- 1 Roosevelt and then commit suicide he ix not bothered, but as soon as he begins to rebel his sufferings are in- tense. “T think," he wrote to Commissioner McAdoo, “that the police need to inves- tigate these things. They are distu ing the peace by nolseful sounds a are getting worse all the time Detectives Hustle Him Away. Commissioner McAdoo bost no time in smoking and reading a newspaper He expressed a willingness to go to the office of Commissioner McAdoo and appeured glad to wae the detectives going to Washington to-day,” “to Kill the President, They neeenai have guards all around him, couldn't stop me. but the He said { to Miron th’ allow him to betray chat | part of the plot He was taken to Bellevue Hospital, red hin ins: om Bellevue where the doctors d hut the first glance. F (was taken to Yorkvil where | formal commitment papers were He will be kept in the psycop. ward for ten dayn und then will be sent ‘fo an insane asyl Not Surprised at Hi jer occupied a small hall he th® boarding-house of Mra. 1 hner, She expressed no. si told that Erler had been ar here lust 1 “He came July,” said Mrs, this afternoon, “At that dime he was | Rorking Jo a bake shop run by @ matt named Walter in ust ‘Twelfth street, |but for five months past he has uot | worked. | “He was always peculiar, he but of late 8 advocated the destruction of all} Lond the division of wealth: he news of any mix fortun man tilled him with joy. Wh rard of the death of «| Derwon in w tich family he would’ gloat news of the fire in Chicago elated bim, He ‘and whistled around the ‘house chuckled over every line he could r about ft, Instead of Kong to theatres ¢ should give their money Iroquois ‘Theatre he sald, pe © the poor. Very Bitter Against Roosevelt. Then he began dropping hints of go- ing to Washington and doing something | that would be of beveflt, to: the whois id. was very bitter agait resident Roosevelt and said that ite | resident would better ba out of ih as going to give up his room and go ts Washington. After he got there, he told | me, 1 would read in the papers of ‘his being &@ benefactor of mankind, in Erler's room a lot of books contala- | ing histories of the stocks of every rait-| road corporation in the United States Were fouhd. These books were ruil oF Annotattons, studied the in hist clippings as in railroad and othe: stocks, ‘There were many, s written In German under the Mrs, Fletchner says that Erler {would read these t othe boarders and jtake them away with him to meetings. Father John’ venta Posi: ee Medicine Cures Colds, WRATRER—Rain: Fi EXIR PRICE ONE CE Ni MOTHER SWEARS TOW OION'T KILL MABEL BEGHTEL ———_—- — + 4-2 ——_. “As God Is My Judge.” the Aged Woman, Who Is Herself Accused of Being an Acces- sory, Solemnly Declares on Witness Stand, “My Son Did Not Kill My Daughter.” HER STORY STRENGTHENS BELIEF THAT _SHE WILL BE ACQUITTED. She Says Mabel Went Driving on Day of Tra- gedy and That Was the Last Time She Saw Her Alive—Contradicts Testimony Given by Police. ALLENTOWN, Pa., 21.—Mrs. Catherine Bechtel, on trial un- der an indictment charging | - with being an accessory after the fact to the murder of her daughter Mabel last October, this afternoon took the witness stand in her own defense. She denied having any knowl edge of the murder of her daughter. ‘ Mrs. Bechtel completely exonerated her son “Tom” of the charge of murdering her sister. In answer to a direct question. on that point she said: “As God is my judge, and as I have to gain my eternal reward in heaven, my son ‘Tom’ did not kill my daughter Mabel.” Before Mrs. Bechtel began ker testimony it was learned by The Even ing World correspondent from a high source that her acquittal is probable. ‘To secure conviction the prosecution must not only prove to the mings of the jury that Tom Bechtel murdered his sister Mabel, bui that his mother rade an effort to shield him and hide the crime. The evidence in these two directions presented by the prosecution is merely circumstantial Mrs, Bechiel’s testimony strengthened the belief that she would not bé convicted, WALKS UNAIDED TO STAND. i ‘The aged defendant walked from her seat unaided to the witness-stand, Capt. Schaadt, her counsel, who conducted the direct examination; took @ seat directly in front of her. Mr. Schaadt had Mrs. Bechtel give a minute description of the house and tell all about the domestic arrangements, including statements about how the family took meals and‘siept, how and where they kept their clothes and the hours of going to bed. Q@. What kind of « carpet had you in the spare room upstairs prior te your daughter's marderf A, A rag carpet. I had owned it twelye Jan. The police swore that on the day of the tragedy this room ‘had an is grain carpet and the next day a rag carpet. Mn Schaadt asked that the rag carpet be brought out for identification Officer Mertz placed It before the jury. in this he was assisted by Mrs. Bechtel’s sons, Charles and John, alse accused of being accessories. The Bechtel boys spread out the carpet and then rested In the middle of the space in front of the bench, leaning against the rail of the jury box. After Mrs. Bechtel bad ‘identified the carpet her sons rolled up the pieces for removal ; Mrs, Bechtel: said that in the drawers of a bureau in the garret were all kinds of old trash, such as gather in a family. Long before Mabel was killed, she said, her son Charles, who is a plasterer, brought home bis lather’s hatchet, broken while at work, and tivew it into one of the c:aWe- ers, ‘This is the hatchet which the prosecution claims is the weapon "-.- which Mabel was killed TELLS OF THE TRAGEDY. Beginning with the story of the tragedy, Mrs. Bechtel sald that on Prt day, Oct. Mabel left for Philadelphia by trolley to visit: her sister, Mrs. Davis. At noon next day Ecxstein came to the house and told Mrs. Bechte! he had escorted her there. At first she didn't believe it, and she Leased him, but he convinced her he told the truth, Eckstein told Mrs. Bechtel that Mabet was coming home Sunday even ing, escorted by Weisenberg. Martha Bechtel, Mabel's younger sister, sald: “Oh, Eckstein, you are easy Eckstein replied: “I know I'm easy, but when a fellow loves a girl he will stand a great many indignities.” Mabel, her mother said, returned home at 11.30 Sunday night, bouncing into the house and exclaiming, cheerfully: “Here [ am.” Next afternoon Eckstein called and had supper there. Sunday event she and Eckstein left home together about 7.30 o'clock, they didn't have any quarrel in the pouse. WENT OUT WITH ECKSTEIN. Q. Did Eekstein ask her if he could spend the evening with her? A. She answered he might escort her out of the house, but that she was going out to meet Wiesenberg. Q. Who remained at the house? A. My daughter Martha and I. ‘Tow Charles and John Martha's beau called and I went to be were away 1 understood from him. thai ‘he | sbout 8 o'alock. Q. Who returned home first? A. Charley. He came about § and went \o bed, Next Tom caime home about 9 o'clock, Straightway he crept to bre Q. Did you see and hear him? A. Oh, my God, yes Q. When did Martha go to bed? A. Soon after 11 o'clock. Q. Who returned next? A. Mabel, about 11.30 o'clock. The two girls | snuggled into bed with me. Q. Who returned last? A. Jobn, When he got home it wis after mid- night Q. Are you quite sure Tom was in bed that Sunday night” A. Yes very sure, | saw him and heard him snore. ‘ Q. Tell us about a habit Tom h a. A. He was in the habit of chewing”