The evening world. Newspaper, January 27, 1905, Page 1

= OF “DIAMONDS: IS FOUND _ White Stone W Weighing 3,032 Carats Got Near Pretoria, ' WORTH $4,000,060. Uncut It Is More than Twenty- + — four Times as Heavy as ' the Kohinoor, ., DIAMETER THREE INCHES. ne News Through New York Stockholder in Mine Where Gem Was Found, JOHANNESBURG, Jan, %.—~The lare- ‘eat diamond ever discovered has been found near Pretoria. The stone weighs #083 carats and In said to be a pure fwhite diamond of good quality. It 1s f, locally, valued at $3,500,000 to $4,000,000, ‘" he tumous Kohinoor, which fs valued wt $000,000, wolghs 123 carats, though It ds yald to havo weighvd 90) before It was out. There js immense excitement here ‘and. at Pretoria ag @ result of the dis- 3 Covery. A member of Stern Bros, & Co, @iamond dealers in the Sheldon Butld- ing, sald that the higgest stone hitherto Meported was one weighing 900 carats ‘en from the De Beers Company's } imberley diggings and retained by the ‘) Pompany as an exhibit, i Bome interesting figures on the yalue nd weight of a wtone of the size re- vorted are given by an cxpert, "Three thousdnd carats would be About 00 ounces, considerably more. ‘@han three pounds, and hardly: suitable for the abire stud or scart pin of the 4 bfcpie New Yorker;" said he, “Din- m futon, frien shat.60 per cent. 4a lost i eat and should a atone woilghing 900 carate be found and put on the cutting table ft would be nearer 1,800 carats when fnished. ‘A Tiffany expert ‘sald that such a é mona would be about three inches ) je Pauare, ‘The firet news of the discovery of this tremendous diamond reached New York through The Wyeding World to-day by the courtesy of former Congressman Tefferson M. Lavy, Ms. Levy showed an Evening World reporter a cablegram * 4 te had received trom London annound- dng that a §,000-carat diamond had been | towne tn the Premier diamond field ia the ‘Transvaal. Mr. Levy is the largest American wtookholder in the Premier Company, which Is controlled by London capital. *% "The diamond fields in the possession of ‘this company were not thought to be fs valuable as those of the De Beors in the Kimberley district, {but the unearthing of this enormous atono, the largest on record, places the |, Premier mines in the first rank. ei ‘Nhe cablegram to Mr, Levy conveyed jo tntimation as to what disposition the company will make of the diamond. im 1s customary to hold stohes of this | Sharacter for exhibition purposes, Un- Moubtedly milHons of persons would be interested in the alight of the biggest Blamond in the world, + + OUTSIDERS WIN RAGES TO-DAY |’ NEW ORLEANS WINNERS. FIROT RACE—Signal II, (7 to 2) } Mt, Evelyn Kinsey (2 to 1) 2, Jelen 3, ' (16 to 6) 1, Inquisitive Girl (6 to 1) 'B, Mary, Glenn 3, THIRD RACE—Blennenwomh (3 to 1) 1, Bob Murphy (11 to 6) 2, Bonnie Lithe 3, FOURTH RAC 4) 1, Gold Spink (6 to 1) 2 Herit- age 3, FIFTH RACE—Dan McKenna (3 | 0 2) 1, Dalesman (5 to 1) &, Monte- } bank 3, SIXTH RACE—Stonewall (9 to 1) U, Noweta (40 to'1) 2, Rian 3, NEW ORLEANS, Jan, %.--The pro- | gramme to-day was of the solling and condition evtits that brought ‘out only moderate-class horses, but the races were evenly balanced and furnished gond contests for the most part. Tho woather was cloudy and cool gnd the track fast, —— a Bhovida Ltd, Pu, it. R, » ag hime “in both seals rg ae ar ie WHO ROBS IN. CITY HOMES Police Having Failed, The World Offers Re- ward for His Arrest. $1,000 TO CONVICT. oy Publicity’ May Aid in Hunt for the Bandit Who Has Evaded the Police, —_——. FAMILIES ARE TERRIFIED They See the Danger of This Form of Robbery —Mr. W oerz Fears Vengeance, Bighteen days have now passed since ® young man wearing a mask entered the home of Hrnest G. W, Woerz, the millionaire brewer, at No, 1 East Sixty-third street, and holding Mr, Woers and the members of his family at bay with a pistol compelled the brewer to give him $100, This robbery was one of the bold- est that has occurred in this city in hiany years,.and was carried out along the same lines as the robbery of Mr. B, L, Shipman and bia daughter, Miss Eva Shipman, of No, $95 West Seventy-sixth atreet, on Dec. 24, and the attempted hold-up of Mr, Bbenezer Hurd in his home, | 4 at No. 19 West Bighty-sixth street, on Dec, 31, ‘With all the tremendous resources, of the Police Department, its 385 de- tectives and 4,800 pattolmen in Man- hattan alone, and the full deserip- tion of the thief obtained from Mr, ‘Woers, the authorities have not been Able to catoh this bold’ thief, In’ fact, | 4. right under:the noses of all of these) unfformed and uniniformed men, to| 14 each One of whom Comihissioner Mo- Adoo had given direct orders to catch the thief, the same man was able on Friday last to go to the residence of Dr, Robert Bancker Talbot, at No, 37 Weat Sixty-eighth street, and hold who was visiting the gon and a maid cook ohased him for three blocks, all the time yelling with all the force of her lungs for the police, Thieves No Longer Timid, the condition that prevails in this city to-day. Thieves no longer keep in hid+ ing by day, They throng Broadway hotels, where they are well known. They no longer bother with small rob- bertes, flat robberies or sneak jobs, and take euch chanves ae the Woers-Talbot (Continued on Third Page,) FAVORITES GET | HOME IN FRONT HOT SPRINGS WINNERS, to 6) 1, St. Florence (18 to 1) 2 Martlue 3, 1) 1, Pretty Giri Saldora 3, THIRD RACE— avin C. (11 to 6) 1, Port Arthur (6 to 1) 2, Chanty 3, (18 to 1) 2, FOURTH RACE—Peggy (8 to 6) 1, Joe Goss (3 to 1) 2, Thespian 3, FIFTH RACE—Operator (9 to 2) 1, Jake Ward (6 to 1) 2, Arietta 3, 1; Waterford (11 to 5) 2; Corwail 3. (Special to The Bvening World.) HOT SPRINGS, k., Jan, 27,-Mod- erate temperature made racing a bit more enjoyable to-day and the crowd basked in a delirious warmth of the sun that flooded the grandstand, There was a very interesting programme, one that furnished keen finishes and closely fought contests, The track was as fast as jt could be and the attendance tie beat of the work Harry Sohults, owner of Strine, Hon- olulu and othar horses, dled hore last nia ht of pneumonia, He had b vy a few days, Mamie —— Piso’ Oute—40 years Sen for seeks “and market, and up Dr. Talbot, his son, a young man| 7, wervant, and was able to ‘escape in| =; broad daylight, although the Talbot | “s 5 This Woers robbery was typical of ¥ iS yx od Breer . Ball }_Diitler Tats bin lesa h game toutly lat __pacemnae nie Lithe outenmed Bagger FIRST RACE—Juvenal Maxim (8) index. SIXTH RACE—Turrando (8 to 1) Se | jevellt the offense. If there was AT NEW D RACE CHART cus JAN, 27—86TH DAY. - 433 i ea Yan yf ca ur a Ne Et the'very homes of the people, No fireside is safe if this new departure and precedent in crime goes denver the criminal is to encourage and invite repetition of |) ‘of the name the man would be behind the bars. Perhaps. Publicity can again do the work for Commis “NEW YORK. FRIL t, FRIDAY . AY , JANUARY’ 27, 1905 27, 1905, Will be paid by THE WORLD for information that will lead to the detection, arrest and con- viction of the robber who held up Ernest G. W. Woerz at the pistal point on Jan. 9 in his own home and whom the police have been sunable to capture, despite the commission since of similar etimes by apparently the same. individual. This latest develop- ment of the inefficient police con- ditions in New York has trans ferred peril from the streets into unpunished. Failure to a detective bureau in Mulberry street. worthy TRACK i -Ofirtonde Beach Fitegaebsac xh Kel use, Of: one of \his) four alfo'A. CG) tn. the 5 | anh beck 1910 miler down the beech . | came back and was 6 Mr, Christie broke, terles, and) while ii 196 ete Witoes, Bb hy by. fides: ‘Horea. 1 Ga Who mn ;mot up just in timé, Bob Murphy killed off rae 111/28 25, roids an i ns Durwe § we tal wih tra his Isai Wi Reiikeoaronas “Ownvr- = ‘Maret "tel are cae ar, Feng. te sp ae races for Jools, ce ik hs | fo one MTollander and Tan oman i i te Y SBD atalle Veaphy. he: iorselie” race g it i ‘ for the Vanderbilt trophy will be rua i ho ph r ti 88 | this afternoon, § ay i 8 at Me a fom o oes 's “1 14/ AUTO CROSSES linkers, «| ANDES MOUNTAINS, HRA un oar A ha ope (Rama ines” Wrhorjer cour net ive "us. to E , ond, pace, AT. HOT SPRINGS. JAN, 27—1817H DAY. Climbs to Dlevation of TRACK FAST, 25,000 Feet, TARGT RACK—Five and one:halt furlongs, Time0 M4, 1.0044, ©] SANTIAGO, Chill, Jan. %7—~The firet 439, 0 Fy ay faxing. “wner-—J; i gs Won fat Bio Et, automobile has just’ crossed the Andes, Jockeys. Wt St. in, Open. Cl | at an elevation of 25,000 feet above the OF i ia 4 iY Le nea level. fale +4 i % Ripe Be * WEATHER FORECAST. | SECOND RACE—bakiawn (3 t0| #4 Et Forecast for the thirty-six hours ending at 8 P. M. Saturday for New York City and vioinity: Cloudy and moderating, with light el et “ Circulation Books Open to Ail,” ba FIREMEN HAVE HARD FIGHT AT WEST SIDE FIRE Factory Buildings Are Destroyed and Several Horses Killed, FOUR ALARMS RUNG Several Workmen Marooned and Saved by Bravery of the Firemen, TWO JUMP FOR LIFE, New York Central Freight Cars “HO-MILE RAGE'* Defeats Berney Oldfield and A. : Webt-in” Big" hutomobile Event for American Cars at scat me: jane Walter Christie won! the fifty> 4 this morn- , | defeating eos Green Dragon, ‘Oldfield losing a tire and the Sone and ‘Toledo. y ‘The race and} as the alarm was being turned ok, repeated, and Oldfield went only is fhe ten-mile point on the first leg. Ho tarted over again, wire to his bat- tt was caught in the fast rising surf, He lost twenty minutes and joompleted the firet twenty- five miles in 60,84, going away like the wind, The second twenty-five went away under, his wheels in 264396, the oar } being half the time in the aurf, This was remarkable time,’ The total time First. Machine to Make the Trip snow tonight; minimum temper. || in Danger as Well as Big Lumber Yards, A fire which Chief Croker says would have become a conflagration had not the wind veered started at noon to-day in the big ald-story bullding, at Nos, 659-456 West Thirtieth atreet, idl de molished this) atryotume: tutes, spread to! thd rer pa Works amd its atatle scross the atreet, urped olx horses and for ‘Dat gtarted ia near the comer vf Thir- teanth avenue, ‘The ground floor was oogupted by 8 saloon Rept. ly John Gal- lagher; the ‘second and thind the Janes Wick Woodworking he and the top floor by Pilliman and Beck, A few minutes before noch the work- men employed in the Wick plan went hurried to the burning building, When he got there columns. of Same were Shooting out of the. ead | marooned men onthe ‘floors: preparing to jump, hg, fro had also spread from the rear to the stables of the Stanley Soap Works, ia which there were thirty horses, Men Ready to Jump. Kelleher yelled to the men on the root to walt, pointing down the street to a hook and ladder cruck flying over the hia | snow, preceded by Chiof Howe's wagon, He alo jumped around to tho atable ‘and assivted seversi hoatlers in cutting loose a number of horses, Then the flames drove him ovt, Meanwhile tho truck had arrived and Ohiet Howe got up the extension ladders. The chief was the first one to mount, climbing up to the fourth floor, where he picked an unconscious man from a window ledge and carried him down, Chief Devaney performed a similar ser- vioe for another man when he got his ladder up, All but four of the five men were taken down without tnoldent, When Fireman Fells got his man down almost to the second floor there was an explosion of flame beneath him that enveloped the ladder, He was com- velled to drop his burden and leap him- self, both men being badly cut and bruised by the fall, Walls Fall, In less than twenty minutes after the Stunt of the fire two walls fel. lot ing down the floors of the bull the roaring furnace below, The leaped to the helght of 100 feet, were swept northward by the gale, fire. brands dropping about in the frei Be yards of the New Y. Central and aot lumber yards of the Dunbar aid pany. ———— FOUR KILLED IN A FIGHT. NOGALES, Ari, Jan, 27.—Four men wore killed in a fight in @ saloon here to-day. The dead are sald to be all well-known Arizona men, nie a rie yi ature Saturday morning about 25 a4 ie degrees; Saturday fair; frosh to Ly brisk westerly winds. on » Foy’ 103. 8 i \ Hortler 115 ‘Wane Higgina 111 oo . Teme Fedig AVR 18D MeLaughiin 06 “Hildebrand 108 Macey 05 Dy. br, Index. Jockeys, Wt. = Peary 3 Joe Ch Thespian Cap N Divi Dickson 100 2 ring bur Motinide ae i i re jie ania ple. wales #100— OF oid ‘and upward, ‘Times: 0 Place driving, OWNner—A. Mol! Hine the $500 nawant— If you had been unfortunate enough to jone—soodness knows where—your jewel bag, containing diamonds, do., valued at ‘sees ine reentrant ecient a a And’ within a few days a plain-olothes man handed vou the lost fewels, claim- pay And you immé@itately notified police headavarters, promising $500 for the re- turn af the valued helriooms—- And after vou tad nald the $800, phe detective exnlainet that he had secured seme by offering a 830 rewant Txt and Found ad. in the RUD—-WOULDN'T IT Two men, one of whom is said to resemble the you who held up Brewer Woerz, attempted a similar obber afternoon at the residence of erman Freed, No,40: e Hund.ed and Fourteenth street, They entered the j means of skeleton keys and were: going up the te stairs when they met Mrs, Freed coming down. They def ed money and she screamed loudly, When a colored: maid. fan upstairs the min became frightened an the house and toward Lenox avenue, . The colored maid told Patrolman Gleason; of ms e Hundred and Fourth street station, reer OF the to watch for a possible return of the two men, drug store, After a time, not only He but a third man. and Gleason‘was signalled. The third man stayed o walk, while the other two went up the steps of the Fre¢ again, Gleason came out and the-man on the outl signal to the other two men. They ran in ditfern but Gleason caught one of the three, The prisoner’ name as Morris Greenwald. twenty years old, of No. One Hundred and Twentieth street, He hada loaded 99-oalibre ravolver ja short t bunch of ekelaton keys, Ina nooket was oes shield marked “Amalgamated Cro ake i The 550,000 CITY Circulation of The World car be used by YOU to aa YOUR Wants, whatever they ures LD WANT DIRECTORY, | Five toi Wotn Foetond to-tay 7s Oe Morse divorce scandal. ‘The socused Hommel firm in transactions with Charles F, Dodge, CHARLES F. DODGS, first husband of Mrs, Clemence wite of the "Ice King,” Charles W. Moree, It wos made clear by the District-Attorney hat Chartes Ww. je now on his way across the Atlantic, was not among the | it was largely upon letters given by Mr. Morse’s counsel, to the District-Attorney that the indictments’ were Foreman Arthur Sullivan handed be a voluminous document to Judge Mo- in hegre Sessions, ey ex- Justice Wigar L, Furaman, who wos coumeel for Mra, Charles W. Morse, was the firet of the acoused men summoned to the bar, oe con. immediately by At; torney Abraham leek Cowling Bemis “nagar L Foreman to the bar." Bx-Judge Fureman, sccompanted by his counsel, ex-Judge D, Cady Storriik, mai of Albany, appeared simultaneously with the Grand Jury, Mr. Sah oon tinued: Indicted for Conspiracy: “you have been Indicted for oon: opiracy, Are you guilty ea not guilty Bx-Justioe Herrick replied: | "The he tendant enters. plea of not gulity, wil leave to withdraw and interpose & fi wrrer,”” : iow awoh time do you wisht Court. hy Minolta was Mr. Herriok's reply, | o “very well" paid Judge McMahon, ‘When the question of ball was raised t Distritt-Attorney Rand sald: "T Alt plate that we do not require any. nation cog de co bail trom this gentleman. His word |p ts made * sufficlent for’ us,” and No Nov, 6 poe: n Wx-Justioe Fureman and his counsel ‘\ then left the court, ‘Three irkbictments were next handed down against Lawyer ey pein 1,1 indiot- ja te or Saraination of erjury, the otlier for conspiracy, i, He A ie ayiayetly new of the Indic ; ty jew minutes after they were handed down he appeared in, court to plead, He was accor pea anied by his Boanibel, De Laneey Nicoll and John D, Lindsay, Pi stood 4 walla ce ® jut i i an fnaioe, was thinking it over Mr? Hummel bo WITH 7 General. Manager Hornbe Now Jersey and New ‘York: Company, sald) this: afternoon’ conversation with Capt, Kahler, of Ughter Westfall, who sighted « off Robbin's Reef, that the Ughter Clarence was sunk off Reot in the storm Satnes i ‘The crew supposed to William Mutb ith elty; oN. mn Huron, i J. Mormansviile, J, See in 5 Kean, dee ihn nd, neces IAwveE®. 44, replying to Mn, Nicoll’s ap- ald sent ae the conspitacy indletment there ave five or Fix pers 801 ved. It would not be right For ine co make the document: public until the others have been arrested, I at gost that the pleading be Aitouened! Yor e week, and I will then give Nicoll a copy of both Indictments,”” Hummel Freed Without Bail, |) Mr. ‘