The evening world. Newspaper, April 5, 1905, Page 3

TOO SHY FOR COURT ORDEAL i lot Forced to Stand in Line "with Criminals in Auto Speeding Case, “COUNSEL ACTS FOR HIM. Pleads -Not Guilty in Speolal Sessions-and:Case Is Put Off for Future Hearing. “AIL. TERM NOT PROBABLE.| Might Get Thirty Daye—Then Again. He May Change Plea and Get Off with Small Fine. ‘Alfred Gwynne Vanterbilt did not ap- pear in the Court of Special Sessions to-day to plead not guilty to a charge of violating the Bailey law in running @n automobile above eight miles an hour through the city streets, His counsel, Harry A. Anderson, was al- lowed to plead not gullty for him, His plea followed the porsonal plea ef two prisoners, one a man, the other @ woman, charged with maintaining lsorderly houses, They had to come before the Court and plead, Mr, Van- derbilt's name was No. 6 on the calen- dar, Had he come to court he would have had to take his place In @ Mne of prisoners charged with a dozen vari- etfes of crime. His sensitive nerves re- volted at this, so hg sent his lawyer to plead for him, Attorney Anderson asked for a post- Ponement of the trial and the three justices presiding granted tt, setting the Case over without date, When It does come up Mr. Vanderbilt may with to change his plea and pay a small Mno, though {f the Court follows a precedent recently set he can, be sent to the ‘Tombs for thirty days, A chauffeur got this Mose, but he had his employer's machine out at night, when he shouldn't have, and his employer asked the Court to give him the limit. Of course, it 1s not Ukely that the young millionaire will ever seo the inside of the Tombs volun- tary, The young man was arrested on the afternoon of March 30 for running his Sixty horse-power Mercedes at a ter- rific rate on Madison avenue above One Hundred and Twentieth street, He was arraigned on \%e following day before Magistrate Baker in the Har- lem Court. He begged to be allowed to plead guilty then and pay a fine. He was allowed to plead all fight, but the Court held him for trial, much to his annoyance, ‘Though he had been ar- Tested scores of times for fast auto driving he had al been able to get off with the payment of a fine. SAYS MURPHY BROKE THE LAW Highway Inspector Roche, Ar- rested for Auto Racing, Says Contractor Was in Charge— Other Parkway Racers Held. Three automobdilists with thelr friends, arrested on the Polham Parkway, oharged with racing at anywhere from twenty-five to forty miles an hour, were in the Morrisania Court to-day, The prisoners had given thelr names as; Graham Bigelow, of No. 840 West Wnd avenue, said to be a college stu Gent. George Mitchell, of No, 645 Lenox avenue, chauffeur for Joseph M, Ohmes, real estate dealer, at No, 1833 Weat One Hundred and Nineteenth street, and James A, Roche, of No, #12 East One Hundred and Ninth street, Chiet In- spector of the Bureau of Highways, It 4s said that John J. Murphy, contractor and brother of Charles F, Murphy, was in Roche's automobile, A subpoena has been Issued to prove his Identity, With Bigelow were several young men, while with Mitchell were James J, Jeffries, tao prize fighter and his eparring partner, ‘Joo’ Kennedy. , In Court to-day, Roche suld Murphy was running the machine, so his case went over until to-morrow, and @ sub- poena was issued for Murphy, ‘Mitchell was held In $600 ba!l for trial, as was Bigelow, who declared he was only trying to get out of the way of the othor machine, Ho waa balled by Allen 8. Apgar, of the Waidort-Astorlu, @ capitalist, Monroe Crane, of Pelham Manor, ap- Peured as x witness and sald; "It is @ matter of life und death to drive on the Parkway now, Tho Autolsts race there, not only taking tho wieale of the road, but the entire street," RES DS AUTO VICTIM DEAD. American Murt on Itun to Monte Carlo Dies of Injurten, MONTE CARLO, Principality of Mo- naco, April 6--Frank Stevens, the American, who resided In London, died Jawt night as tho result of the motor acoltent April 3, when he and his com- pantcn, Louls Hay, also an American, were baily injured while maling a fast run from Nice to Monaco, by coming into coll’sion with a street enr, Mr, Stevens remained unconscious in & snail hotel at the hamlet of Kxs (three miles from Monaco), near the seeng of the acvident, and was attended by doctors from Beaulleu, ‘The boy Will be brought here and then sent. to America, Hay ‘4 making progress to- ward redovery. et MERRILL STORY CORRECTED, Jenny B, Merrill, of No, 112 East Eighty-first street, aske The Hvening has been no ‘World to state that t Gibatfection between her nephew, K. B, Bho nat only knew ut hae entertamed HARRY | Wed to Evelyn Nesbit with His Mother’s Consent, and About to Sail Abroad, Harry K, Thew, of Pittsbucg, and ‘hin wife, who was Blorence Bvelyn Nesbit up to the time of thelr mar- riage in Pittsburg yesterday, are In New York en route to Burope. Reporty from Pitteburg are Wo the effect that they are to hurry along on their voy-} age, but this information is Goubted In), soubrette and all-night restaurant cir- cles, “Harry must have an awful oul! with Mrelyn if he can drag her away before she circulates around and hears hervelf called Mra, Thaw by a lot of people that have heen knocking her," re- marked a large blonde who reported ‘ly for an extra rehearsal to-day, Young Thew and his wife have been in New York all winter and reports thet they were married and wore afraid to acknowledge it because of family oppositon have been persistent. This famtly opposition apparently has been disdpated, for Harry Thaw’ mother was present at the weddingén' Pittsburg and Thaw and his bride ate e wedding dinner at her magnificent home in the falllionaire residence section of Pitts- burg. Seen Together Nightly. During the winter Thaw paid several visits to Pittsburg, but Mies Nesbit re- mained in New York. They wero seen together nearly every night at the chea- tre and restaurants frequented by peo- ple with money and late appetites, Bvi- dently young Thaw, in his visits home, succeeded in convincing his mother that his marriage would be a good thing for the family, Parental opposition out of the way, Thaw and Miss Nesbit quietly started for Pittsburg. So far as is known, they did not tell a person in New York that they were going to be married, Upen arriving in Pittsburg yesterday ‘Thaw escortud Miss Nesbit to the home of her mother, Mrs, Charles I, Holman, in Oaklund avenue, after which he went | to the home of his muther in itth avenue, He summoned ons of his intimate friends, who obtained a marriage li- cense without publicity, At 6 o'clock in the afternoon the young people were married by Rey. Willlam L, McEwan, pastor of the ‘Third Preabyterian Church, and Eyelyn Nesbit, who left Pittsburg « few years ago to take a position in the chorus of a New York production at $18 a week, became the sister-in-law of the Countess of Yer- mouth and shaver in :.n income of $80,000 a year, which will grow larger. Mother at Wedding. There were four witnesses to the wed- ding, Mrs. Willlam Thaw, mother of the bridegroom; Jostah Copley Thaw, his brother, and Mr, and Mra, Holman, atopfather and mother of the brid After the ceremony the party repr to tho residence of Mrs. Thaw, whe dinner was served, and lata In the evens ing Marry Thaw and his wife iook a train for New York, WAR AGAIN Tenement Dwellers Are Noti- fied of Advances to Take Effect May 1. A JOAN OF ARC APPEARS. | Annie Navard, but Sixteen Years | Old, Raises “War Fund” to Fight Landlords. RENTS RISE ALL OVER CITY. ———$—— In Harlem and the Bronx Flats and| Small Houses Will Rent from $5 to $10 More Monthly. —— Trouble for landlords on the upper and lower east sides ts brewing as the result of arbitrary increases !n tenement rentals, some of which ha already gone into effect, while others will be enforced on May 1, Rental Increases throughout the en- tire elty will be made on the first of noxt month, but it Is on the east side that the greatest indignation prevails, Already heavily burdened by big addi tions to the price of food, as well as of rent, the tenement dwellers are now preparing to make a concerted move to fight the landlords, and trouble evea more alarming than the rent riote which took place between the Bowery and the Bast River last year 1s threatened during the next month, ‘The first warning of this trouble came yesterday, when Demein & Co., the new owners of the six-story tenement-house at No. 61 Pitt streot, ordered thelr ten- ants to pay an additional rental of from $2 to # a month for thelr four-room fate, A slip of a girl—the daughter of one of the tenants—at once called ao meeting of the victims of the increnses, and a fund of $190 was raised with which to fight the landlords, Girl Ralties Tenants, The girl who thus essayed the role of Joan of Arc of the tenants is Annie Navard, sixteen years old. She is em- ployed in a rlbbon factory on Broad- way, and lives with her parents and four younger brothers and sisters on the fourth floor of the tenoment-house. ‘The girl's father is employed in a cigar factory, She helps him support tae family, Demein & Co, notified Navard) that his rent for four rooms would be! Inereased from $l4/to $16 a month, He pormptly announced that he could not afford to pay the increase and would have to move, Other tenants mado a similar reply to the landlords, They were told that they could get out, Then Annie Navara came to the front, THAW ARRIVES HERE WITH ACTRESS BRI EVELYN NESBIT AS ARTISTS’ MODEL AND AS MRS, THAW, AND HER HUSBAND FILOLAME EVE) yYQ NESOIL @s.4 Modes ST HIGH RENTS STARTED ON THE EAST AT A THEATRE DIES OF HURTS Morris Cody, Gallery Usher, Accused of Throwing Stick, Is Arrested. LAD’S BRAIN AFFECTED. Young Morris Jacobson Was Struggling in Rush for Good Seats when Struck Down. LINGERS FOR THREE WEE Finally xpiree in Hospital—Acocused Theatre Attache Denies In fileting Inlury. Thiet Morris Jacobson. thirteen years old, of No, 167 Hast One Hundred and Third street, died to-day in the Sydenham Hospital from brain paralysis, induced by a blow with a club at a matinee per- formance in the Star Theatre, on Lex- ington avenue, three weeks ago, Morris Cody, a gallery usher, of No, 1331 Fifth avenue, was arrested on suspicion of having dealt the blow, and arraigned in the Harlem Court to-day. He was then remanded to the Coro: Jacobson went to the theatre with two friends, Abe Gartner, thirteen yeara old, of No, 166 East One Hundred and Third street, and Robert Harper, same age, of Third avenue and One Hundred and Thin etreet, They bought seats for tho gallery and waited outside with the crowd, When tho ates were open there was a wild rush up the stairs and the three boys did thelr best to get in with the vanguard, In pushing ‘through the saullery gate wilh the crowd they were chased away by an usher, but the boys went back for another try at better seats. Then Isaac Dalton, Prominent Real Estate Man, Discovered Dead on Trolley Tracks, FOUND BY ROUNDSMAN. Right Leg Badly Crushed and Head Cut—Internal Injuries Probable Cause of Death, SAY THE MOTORMAN KNEW... Near Dead Man Was Found BacW ; Spring uf Car Fender, Evidence | | that Acoldent Wae Known i | Isaao Dalton, a real estate dealerseifj! No. 108 Lewis avenue, Brooklyn, i found dead to-day on the up-track the Halsey strect trolley line, hatweam Hamburg and Knickerbocker oan opposite Irving Park, ’ The man, to all appearances, had. begry {' struck by a car on the down-track and! tossed over upon the other track either killed instantly or left to dle the motorman of the car which ai him, The discovery of the body was made} by Roundsman Anthony, who in the / dawn was passing and saw « form lying ¢ in the middle of tho street. Going over he shook the man, and getting noite } sponse, felt his pulse and, found he ‘was } dead, The body was cold when found 4 and the clothing had been rained upon, § showing that it had been there froma somo time,early in the night.’ 5 The body was identified by papers tn | the pockets, Mr, Dalton'e watch, valuable one, his diamond ring, about + twenty dollars in cash and valuable § papers were found intact, ‘The finding of the bady in one of the loneliest parts of Brooklyn, where the fome one threw a heavy atick, which struck young Jacobson on ¢he head, He fell to the floor umconsotous, Hie two friends and a man carried the boy to @ drug atore in tthe neigh- borhood and there Mrs, Jacobson found her boy. She was advised to take bim to a hospital, but instead had him car- ried home. On Saturday he grew worse and was removed to Bydenham Hos- pital. He showed no signe of recovery and died to-day, he police found Cody at his home and arrested him at once, He denied having thrown the etick and seemed dumfounded that he should be charged with the act, PAA. SAKA will all stick together and fight to the end,” Annie is a grammar echool grad- uate, and her diploma, carefully framed, which hangs In the Navard flat, Is tho the result, ow. We would still find In other places that the rents had been ralsed, We will Just stay ripht here and see It out. would like to get rid of every family in the house that has young children, section are trying to get rid of oh dren, Where can the children gi are, and they can't throw us out, The tenement house In which I live contains more than forty families ‘There are about ono hundred and fifty ehildren in the place. "NO, we won’ get out at all,” eh said, “In union there le strength. W. [sa lawyer and a» ren They think that children are a nuls- ance, All of the landlords down In this | they oan move, jet plenty of other ocouy They've got to live here, and so we will all just stay right hero, where we Woe are going to this out to the LEADER AND SCENES IN FIGHT AGAINST HIGHER RENTS. Among Miss Navanl's most supporters are the members Cohen fumily, In most of the tenements along Pitt, anlent of the Pride and boast of the entire tenement, | Attorney, Essex and Rivington streets So when the girl talked of deflance tha| the rents are to go up from $2 to 4 other tenants rallied around her with|on May 1, A similar increase was made enthusiasm, and the "War Fund’ was! last year, and at that time scores of 5 |familtes were forced out Into the e've Just ot to fight." sald | Bronx and up above One Hundred and tho girl, in telling of her plans, | “Wihat good would it do us to moye?| district above One Hundred and Tenth Tenth street, on tho east side, This street has now become congested, 50 that there is no place the vigtims of this year's increase can move to and Tho whole truth Is that tho landlords! find rellef. Pay™Increase or Move, The attitude of the landiord« js that If the tenants don't like the inc 4 they can nts who will landlords pay a higher rental, aleo argue that higher t Increase in the cost of reduced thelr profits, so thi compelled to raise prices, Inquiries among real estate dealers to-day by a reporter for The Hvening World showed that on May 1 there| } wih be incrosaea in the rentals of|in Harlem and thé’ B: Li, Prtt BS. creases will be made in all houses neay Flats of five, which brought six and seven rooms, veral reasons a month on fla ronnbenger, hundreds of wmall houses and for tha raises, except that ronts which bring under $1,000 a year 9 not object to paying ronx, ‘Heavy in- " YOUNG RAFFLES PLEADS GUILTY Calmus Was Led to Rob Hotel Visitors by Reading Detective Stories, Lawyer Simpson Tells Judge Foster. John Calmus, the youthful “Raffles” who was arrested in tho Hotel Nether- | land March 2% for plyindering the rooms | of visitors there, and who confessed he had robbed other hotels, to-day pleaded | gullty before Judge Warren W, Foater in General Sessions to two Indictments, one alleging burglary, the other grand larceny, In entering the plea of gullty Lawyer George Simpson, of Levy & Unge office, told Judge Foster that Calm who ‘ls only nineteen years old, had | been led astray by reading detective stories. “He became su, imbued,’ told the Court, he believed it was an easy matter to) Imitate euch heroes as ‘Raffles.’ " | According to Mr, Simpson young Cal- mus has done everything In his power | to assist the police In recovering articles he stole. Most of them were pawned in Philadolphia, where the boy nad formor- ly ved with his parents, at No, 1226 Sori Mr, ing Garden street. udge Foster remanded Calmus to the ‘Tombs until Friday for sentence. Moan- time Agent Kimball, of the Prison Ald Society, will investigate the prisoner's antecedents, ao GIRL GETS CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR HEROISM. DES MOINES, Ia,, April 5.—A Carne- wie medal for herolam has becn award- ed to Miss Lavina Steele, recently ap- pointed Assistant State Librarian, ho medal was awarded to’ Miss Bteole for her rescue of George Hill, a young, man who while skating broke | through the Ice and would have drown- ed in. ten or twelve feet of water had not the young Indy, after a desperate struggle, in which her own life was in peril, dragged him to safety. ——— JUDGE PARKER VISITS MAYOR, Judge Alton B, Parker c Hed at the City Hall to-day to see the Mayor, and | was ushered Into the latter's: private | tt was Just a social call,” sald the | x d, "It was the first time rd, Ween in the elty that 1] ull at the Clty Hal | jing. In thelr investigations they learned . Simpeon ‘with these stories that | f houses are few und the policemen fewer, at first led to the bellef that.Mr. Dalton might have been murdered and left near the track, There wae nothing to indiu cate that this was the case, and after finding he had not been robbed the police announced tlt they were certain he was killed by @ trolley car, Struck by Owl Car, From Broadway to the Kings County Une after midnight there are only three cam used on the road, and they pass about every half hour, At 6 o'clock the regular run of cars begins, Tho police believe that it was one of the that struck Mr, DaJton, calf of the leg and right foot ‘Were crushed as though they had been run over, while there was a gash jn the head, which the police do not think was suficiont to cause death, which they attribute to internal injuries, Near the body the policemen investl- gating at daylight found what they con- sider an important bit of evidence in Connection with the fatality, It is the back spring of a car tender, From this fact they argue that when Mr, Dalton Was struck by the oar not only did the motorman know he had struck some one, but his fender was knocked so far oe ip pe behead gaint to et out and x it, and the back spring was hind by him in the dark, ig ah: From the place Mr, Dalton's hody. was found to where he lives is sev- eral miles, and the police are endeave ‘oring to trace his movements last even. he left the house last night to transact |: some business, Mrs. Dalton is slok in ‘ved and very low, and has not yee! |’been informed of her husband's death, | Haste Caused Death, 4 | It Is presumed by the police thas, Mr, Dalton, who was Interested in’ proporty In’ Queens Borough, was out: || side the clty limits, attending to some | real estate deal, aid It was his hurry to get back to'his home that perhaps caused his death, ‘They believe that he took a car to # point near where he was and was out {n.the middle of the street looking for a Halsey street car to carry him to the city when he was sttuck by a car come ing in the opposite directo Charles Lang, Mr, Dalton’s gon-tn-law, said to-day that he thought Mr. Dalton was In Queens County last night wind. {nz up @ real estate deal, He eald his father-in-law was not a drinking may He was fi Brooklyn real estate circles. Mr, Lang had to break the news to the widow. hs as Drostra ted, nee to ed 4 oo and talk with your Mayor. I Sell All the Hats I I Make All the Hats I Sell.