The evening world. Newspaper, April 7, 1904, Page 2

iM “CHECKS FA ‘Edwin Hawley, the OF GETTING Ble OM 0, J SULLY Railroad Capitalist, Makes More Revelations About the . Profits in His Earlier Cotton Deals with the Dethroned King. Wawin Hawley, the rallroad capitalist, sumed the stand before United States Comminsioner Alexander in the Post- {Office Building to-day and made further revelations in the procedings brought to Getermine whether he and Frank H. Ray, were lable with Daniel 3. Sully for the debts of Sully & Co. When Mr. Hawley was sworn ¢x- Secretary of War Root continued to Probe for light on the big cottom pools. Mr. Hawley was asked to produce his personal check book and explain stub entries of checks drawn to Sully & Co. Ae stub showed checks to Sully dated Dee. 1) last aggreeating $45,700, There wer alk checks for $7,666.66 each. Mr. Rodt brought out that Mr. Hawley hed | yey, checked out $131,640 of Jan, 2, repre- wenting profits in a pool. ‘Another package of checks, aggre- gating half a milton dollars, drawn to ‘Mr, Hawley's order by Sully, was ex- hibited. The witness said that the ehecks, which ran from Dec. 22, 1903, to March 7, 100, were correct and the gums had been deposited to his credit, Checks Represent Deals. various transactions these sent made with your knowl- asked Mr. Root. replied Mr. Hawley. Q. Did you go to his office or aid he come to your office in regard to these transactions? A. Mr. Sully came to my office every duy, and I gave the order for the different deals. . @. Did you moet Mr. Ray with Mr. Bully at the cufe of the Waldorf-As- Yes. . Was there any one elxe who took part in those discussions of the cotton market? A. Yes, Mr. John W, Gates talked it over with us. Mr. Hawley said that he also enter. tained Mr. Rag and Mr, Sully, in his partments at No. 200 West Fifty-sev- tnth street In the evening and talked Dyer the cotton market. There w ‘and thirty moet- ings in Mr. Haw apartments, John W. Gates was never entertained there. Q.aDid you hold any of these little ectings in any other apartment in the aldorf-Astoria than the cafe? Yes, there were little dinners given dn Idorf by either Mr. Gates or Mr. meetings in the 4 Room asked Mr, Root, significantly, “There were, but | don’t exactly re- meber who they were,” the witness re- piled At this time Mr, Sully, who ent nea the witness, laughed aloud, and a br ker in back of the court-room eetheart poker.” On March 1i, the day before the fail- ure, the witneas said Mr. Sully told him he needed some, money. “I anid,” Mr Hawley added, “I would give anything ace necessary to margin my personal oount."’ In a further conversation Mr. Haw told Sully he did not want to continu his gocount in « house that aid busine ines. Q. Did Mr. Sully want to borrow money the day of the failure? A. You, he wanted to borrow Q;, Did you and Mr. Ray talk with Suliy on the morning of Mgroh 18? A. wo advised him to sell out. We ulvised him to transfer his cotton to some other house for sale Mr. Ray and 1 had decided to xet out of the at did you do? A to draw up ao . Sully, ‘This $45,280 worth of atock for Sully by the as was produced. , Q. Did you not know that the pur- chase was made for a joint account when you signed the voucher? did not care as long as I got my mouey? Q. Do you kno joint nc- count ix? ALT th iden, but mity be wrone? '. Do you mean to say that vou have ber nber of t} wrk, Stock Exepi for ten years and do not knoW what a foint account Ist A have my ideay— The witness's counsel, Jullen ‘T. Da- vis, interreupted and interposed an ob- Jeotion to the auestion Mr. Root produced a letter written by Mr. ‘Hawley to Sully, in which Mr. Hawley referred to the sale of “his one-third Intereat in joint account No. 3 in 90,000 bales of cotton.” ‘The other two-thirds were divided between Mr Ray and Mr. Sully: Thin letter was produced after the witness had denied that he had any int with Sully, Talk About a Fatlure, Q. In that conversation Mr, Sully had with you and Mr. Ray on the morning of March 18 did he not tell you that some one would have to fail, and he might as well be the o I don't Joint a remember any such rtatement Q. Mr. Sully has also sald that he told you and Mr. Ray a drop of 1 cent In cotton would oblige him to borrow $1,260,000, Did he tell you that? A. Not that I remember. . Who attended those dinners? A. Ray, Mr. Gates, Mr. Sully and elf. y Was there any order given for on at that dinner? A. Yos, there ‘an order given for 50,000 bales. the meetings in the Waldorf- storia, the quartet held weekly meet- 8 in“the “Gold Room" of the Hoft- man House. In the “Gold Room,’*-the ‘ qitness said, they discussed cotton‘and fave orders for many thousand bales “were there not others at thes ‘The chock by which Mr. Hawley had paid his loss of $82,420 to Mr. Bully wa put in evidence. Some question wa. talsed about Mr. Hawley having the check cashed, whereupon Mr. Root asked: “You didn’t want the money to go to the Hoffman House that night, did you, Mr, Hawley?’ “Nok that I remember,’’ repiied the witness. An adjournment was taken until Fri- fay, April 16. FLEEING FOOTPAD SHOOTS TWO MEN (Continued from First Page.) East Thirty-fifth street station, ran at the fleeing man, The thief raised his pistol to fire, but when he looked down the barrel of the polloceman’s pistol the nerve was taken out of him and he ran on up the street. At 'Thirty-fifth street Johnson, who had teft the car with Corn, overtook the thief just as he was trying to turn in Thirty-fifth street and meke f md ay for 8e00% enite, He and the thief grappled, and John- son was hurled to the pavement by the superior strength of ‘the thief, As John- won rose to his feet the t fired, the bullet passing through Johnaon's chin, He fell to the street unconscious, Spd ‘the thief came forward and was about to fire a second time into the man's prostrate body ‘when Policeman Roth, with pistol and club drawn, ‘ran Up. AWith one blow of his club he’ sent the man to the pavement unconscivus. crowd closed about the uncon- scious thief, There were loud threats of "Kall bint") ‘The police of the Hast Thirty-fifth street station-house had heard the shows and the cries of the Under Capt. Shire they made for the street and beat, back the mob, he thief wax taken to the station house. There he was questioned. At first he gave his name as John Kenne- dy, but a detective, looking at him, OrrRren't the thlef, you Join Kenne plekpocket and ex-convict The risgner then admitted that he He was searched and Mrs. Mil- ook was found on him. taken to Yorkyille Court and arraigned Both Corn and cJhnson were taken to Bellevue Hasnital, There is was ald that Corn would almost surely die The wound in the abdomen, it was be- Meved, would be fatal, Johnson's wound, while not considered fatal, 1s very serious, All of his teeth in the front part of the lower Jaw were shot away. ‘ m lor was assisted aboard the car, She still retained her pocketbook, her clothing was torn in shreds and she ‘Waa covered with cuts and brulees When Kenney was led into the York- ville Police Court to be arraigned he was handcuffed to bis captor, Police- man Roth, and was in a surly mood. “Sure Im an. ex-oonvict,” he sald through his teeth. “I've lived tere al! times I can't count ‘them now. “I'm in poor health or they wouldn't have got mo thin time, I got a guod beating In a Bowery gin mill several months ago and they did me up so bad that [ain't been much good since “T wouldn't hutve shot those yme and it hurt font Policeman then spoke up snid tried to shoot three times, Kenney admitted this and Roth sald would have been better off Kenney an Old Offender. At Police Headquarters. Kenney's ord ts under the name of John ¢ nolly, alias Carey. ‘The record shi that he was arrested In the retail dr: goods district on Oct. ai, 1893, charged with picking a woman's pocket. The Woman did not appear to prosecute and he waa sent to Blackwell's Island for tv vs for vagrane: There are other records against Ke ney in various police courts, Inspector McClusky considers him a petty. trre: sponsible and consequently dangerous thief. Kenney was arraigned on two charges -one of stealing from Mrs. Annie Miller and the other of felonious assault on Johngon, He pleaded pot guilty and was held for the Grand Jury tn $1.5) Woman Attacked by Thug Before. This is the second Miller has had with a within a . Her busband. wh ng World reporter at his home to-da tola of the attack, in whieh h wife had fought desperately to save her pocketbook, but her life She was waiting at’ night Hundred and Forty-fourth street Lenox avenue for a south-bound car. There are no houses in the Immediate vicinity, and Mrs. Miller was wal toward a street lamp when Jumped out of n opening exoavation and s Walle the in a strong grasp ree and for the woman’ rs. Miller, experience Mrs. highwayman seen by an Even- however Is ful woman, and manage off her assailant. He ret to the attack in a rage and struck Mrs. Miller between the eyes, stunning her. Bhe maintained her balance and clung desperately to her pocketbook pproaching from the One Hund ind Forty-seventh street barns, and shot toward the struggling man and woman she screamed to attract the mo- berman’s attention. “Thereupon her assailant clasped her oe the waist and drageed her toward 4 way opening from which he had F ‘The car was upon them, ho hey were struggling with the opening. an A ent] bonda on each charge. There will still which he must be arraigned, SHIPPING NEWS. THE TIDES. Sandy Hook. Governor's Hell Gate Ferry Teutonte . jor mle fy Citys of | Mamphty. ? desborough pe Mangantiio Port Spain INCOMIN! MSHIPS, DUE TO-DAY. Consuelo, Hut) Grande Cpmeueloy, Hui ndenburg, . Gibraltar, Maraval, Trintdad, “= OUTGOING STEAMSHIPS. BAILED TO-DAY. La Tourstne, Abe imminence of capture, in released his victim and excavation. Mil Deutachiand, Princess Altce, Esperanza. Hi Pathfinder, thersh | my life and I've been pinched #0 many n. I Just wanted to sald the thief, “T| the charge of shooting Corn upon | THE WORLD 04 FIREMEN AR “CHOKED BY SMOK Overcome When Fighting the Three - Alarm Fire in the Seven-Story Factory:Building in Walker Street. Twenty-four firemen were overcome by smoke to-day in fighting a three- alarm fire in the seven-story factory buflding at No. 17 Walker eteeet All were caseied fs0m the bullfing and re- vived on the street except one, Engine Company who was sent to Gouverneu The fire started in a defective flue over a small forge on the trat floor and rapidly spread up through the alr- shaft and the elevator shaft to the floors abov About fifty men were employed in the building at the time, but the heat of the blaze when it first started set off un automatic fire alarm, and this warned the workmen in time to get out of the structure safely. William Heesh, the engineer of the building, instructed Charles Dalton, the elevator boy, to make as many trips a8 possible to get the workmen out of the buliding. ‘The boy made four trips, coming down each time with a full load, The Inst trip was made through the flames, but he got every one out. Water Tower at Work, Half an hour after the first alarm was sent in the fire seemed to be burn- ing on all floors. A water-tower from the Elm street house was raised In front of the building and from this two powerful streams, fed by ten engines, were poured into the byilding. Hack of the burning building In Raxter strect 14 the Moo Levy Building, the upper floors of which {s occupied by the Hagenbuchle Paper Box Manufac- turing Company. Forty girls were employed hes, and when the flames shot out of the rear of the Walker street building the xirls became panic-stricken. All of them rushed madly for the stairways and a crush followed which threatened to se- rlously injure many, The foreman and a few helpers pushed the girls back, however, until they were all able to leave the building in wafety. Firemen Fall with Roof, Six men from Engine Company No. were carrying a lne of hose over root of a one-story Dullding in Centre street back of the burning bullding, when the roof fell in, precipitating all of the firemen into the building. None was injured, although all of them were considerably shocked. When the fire was under control twenty men from engine companies Nos. % and 31 went into the building, but all of them were overcome by the dense smoke before penetrating far, Companions carried them out, and a policeman sent @ call to several hos- pitals for ambulances. The firemen, however, had been quickky rewved, ¢m- cepting Bawary Downes, who was sent to Gouverneur Hospital The doctors | sald he would be out in @.few hours, The fire, which was sonfined, by Downes, of Ine to Chief Crolker’s extimate, the fire was 6o rapid and so hard to int that it apneared at-first tobe a fe serious blaze. hard work, to the rear of the Duflding, | {n 414 only @bout $20,000 damage, aesord- | t ‘But | ans, ARIE INDIANS KILLED N TRAIN WRECK Chief, Mortally Wounded, Sat Beside His Dead Tribesmen Calmly Smoking, While Doc- tors Worked Over Him. MAYWOOD, Ill, April 7.—Sixty-three Indiana in « special car, en route to Washington to eee President Roosevelt, were amashed into by a mull train two milea west of here to-day during a fog. Three of the Indlane were instantly Killed. three fatully Injured and twenty others were more or less seriously hurt The Indians were members of the Buffalo Bil organization and at New York were to embark for England, THE KILLED. Kill Head, skull crushed Phillip irontail, body 1 Thomas Comolist, body crushed. THE INJURED, Blg Chief Whitehorse, orus and fear broken: wilt aie, oY on Luther Standing Bear, body and head; wilt die wet Shout crushed about body: Mrs. Comelast, of the killed, cut about shoulders, Tommie Comelast, mx years ol of the dead man, head injured Andines eved to have been made tem; insane from fright, Lenk Sammy Lone Bear, head cut and body bruised. Abraham Goodinow, cut about head. Blind Engle, twenty-three vears old, cut about head by flying glans. LAttle Wik, head cut and bruined. Charge the Enemy, head cut and body brulee, duet i 5 C jet High Ball, at thi 4 of the deleration of the Sioux, neverely crushed about the bod: wife of one head and ; won of Chief Sitting twenty-seven years old, slightly injured The coach containing the Indians was @ ight day car. wrecked. ‘The rear end of the coach ahead was also damaged. After the collision tho passengers in the other coaches of the two trains hurried to the rescue, and after a hard etruggle pulled them from beneath the wreckage. Chief Whitehorse, in charge of the Indians on tho train, was fatally in- jured. The bodies of the Indians who had been killed outright were laid on the prairie beside the track, Chicf Whitehorse being carried with them, He sald he knew that death was near and requested that he ve placed near his dead companions. ‘The chiet wus propped up and sat stofcally while phy- siclans worked over his injuries, He smoked a pipe quietly and showed no signs of the pain he must have been suffering, One by one the other injured Indians were slowly taken from the splintered car and placed upon the ground near their dying chiet pO! and dead comrades, ‘The physicians hucried from one to an- 0 of if the wants of sll, w! ‘were beins arrangements re bein ‘made’ ty take the Ted men mn ea sicable wight to fee the indians lying on the ground, ‘olnd in their native garments with their red dyed deeper by the blood from pans eer} men meee, 3 horwe ‘was & good exammple cd that of the other members of the Indian party. 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