The evening world. Newspaper, May 6, 1905, Page 5

Ys | i ” we ¥ vein Wacol, Y GALLS MEETING » OF DIRECTORS A HYDE CAUCUS Monday’s Gathering Part of Plan to Oust ‘Alexander and Tarbell, OFFICERS ARE BARRED. Dther Members of the Board Are to Have Secret Session on-Equitable Affairs. WANT SQUABBLE ENDED. Harriman and Frick Said to Be Be- hind-Plan, Which |8 Far from Non-Partisan. Friends of James H. Hyde sald to Gay that the Info: nl conte directors of the Prauttaple Life Assur ance Society, cAiled for next Monday afternoon, is a Hyde movement and that B. WW. Harr and Henry GC, Frick are beliind 4! One man in. pare teular who ought to know what he Js talking about said: “Phis conference I# not one of plain rectors called to get rid of all the of- RAVeUnlerrio CREA ITkits AOR caucus, ‘T h ness it {s to do is to discuss th neral situ: on and then decide on best y » get rid of Alexander and ‘Ta is likely the conferrees will decide to go Into the hext meeting of the w fe Board with & res: jon demanding the resignations of the President and Mr. Tarpell, and providing f th ' ponsion if they Fefuso to resign. 1 think there will be botween twenty-five and thirty diress tors at the confer Bpeaking of the stories that Mr, Hyde WHHL be force ut, too, if A Ander und Samuel Unter: myer sald to-day “AN talk M Hyde resigning 18 bosh and circulated for a purpose. Whatever may bo the course of others, who have no interests at stake, Mr Hyde ‘has his inte and rep! on bo protect and will t them Joseph Be s, of Baltimore, the gen- bral agent of Equitable for Mary+ land, was summoned to this city to-day aw ul abe A number of wiars which have appeared tn his te f acking Mr. Hyde and the Equitllble jowes Was chalfman of the commiltes bf agents whl vited Mr. Hyde to fosign, He denied all kno vledge of tho Luthorsiiop of the clroula it becaine a y & the Bquitadle agents have been etroulating| ong thelr biggest policy-holders . iN, asking them to take more Ins his is being dono to try to overcon the losses which the #6 nn. port in June will show on account of the In- bitty of the agents to write new b ness, MONUMENT TO JEWISH TROOPS Prominent Men Will Take Part in the Unveiling Ceremcnies in Salem Fields Cemetery To- Morrow Afternoon. | Me monument erected by the Hebrew Ynion Voteran Association to the fowish soldiers who died in the ctvil var will be unveiled in Salem Fields femetery, Cyfiprese Hills, L, to- herrow afternoon, The unveiling of the monument will fe Attended by impressive ceremonies, hich will begin at 2,90 o'clock, Musle vill be furnished by the Hebrew Or- jaan Asylum Band, Rev. Dr, Joseph Silverman will say ‘he opening prayer, whereupon Nathan Btraus, the presiding officer, will make the introductory remarks Addresses will be delivered by Gen, jelson A. Miles, Gen, James R, Belrne, Ferdinand Levy, Louls Stern, A, Goulden and Dr, H, Pereira dea, Mrs, Amelia Stiner, widow of Col, foweph H. Stiner, will unvell the monu- Snthe commitice are Nathan Btrauy muel M. Schafer, Lyman C. Bloom: Ingdale, Louls Stern, Jacob W. Mack a Ferdinand Levy’ ‘The Trustees of ‘Temple Emanu-Fl "WH? Moson, Manel tenman, In}! Dittonhoefer, Lows Marehall and inlel Guggenheim, “SUSPECTHELDAS BRESCI'S ALLY Prisoner Arrested In Egypt De- clared to Have Plotted with Slayer of King Humbert— From New Jersey, Police Say. ‘ROMM, May 6—A dospatch received here from Cairo, Mgypt, announces the herest théro of a man supposed to be ne eae oie in the murdor ‘The man arrested, it Js sald, came to italy with Bresol from Patorson, N, J. ansertion {s made that after the 4-erme ‘the man escaped to Zanzibar, where ho “became a Mohammedan, When arrested the auspoct wus dressed @ priest, ‘ pamibert "was assay Bee Fer 8 a ao, yak feast, 10, ig a me dat tAndo that hie EVABOOTH SAYS NAN PATTERSON IS NOT GUILTY. |Salvation Army Leader Sees Actress Awaiting Free- dom in Her Cell. JUROR FLAYS JEROME. Public Shame, He Says, That Florodora Girl is Kept in Jail Through Official Negligence. REBUKE ALSO FOR MR. RAND. As Public Servants They Should Be at Post of Duty to Consider ‘Release on Bail. res The only visitor Nan Patterson ceived in the Tombs to-day wa Booth commander of the Salyaifon Army Jn America, Many others called to seo her, mostly cranks, and all were sation she sald to a reporter for the Evening World: “I am sure that Nan Patterson is not a murderess, She is a finer fibre than one who would commit a wanton crime." Coroner's Physician O'Hanlon, who festified for the prosecution in the trial of the Patterson girl and gave an his opinion that Caesar Young could not have killed himself, modified this state- ment in conversation with friends to- day. w that the trial fs over," sald Dr. O'Hanlon, "I feel free to say that it ts my opinion and has been all along that ung had the pistol in his hand when Y he was shot,’ Juror'’s Letter of Censure. Though neither —_District-Attorney Jerome nor his ohief assistant, Mr, Rand, will appear at the Criminal Courts Bullding to-day, there Is waiting for thom a letter containing a severe rebuke trom one of the Jurymen who gat in Judgment on Nan Patterson. This juror evinces amazement and regret over the failure of the District-Attorney's ofice to meet the prisoner's lawyers to ar+ range for the future disposition of her case, Thia {8 a copy of the letter which Was sent to Mr. Jerome; “William T, Jerome, District-Attorney, City: Sir—I am one of the jurore in the Patterson trial, For obvious reasons I do not disclose my identity, although I do not belleve that I am In any manner amenable to the law for expressing my views to you a8 a private citizen, The statement made In the public prints thie day to the effect that you and your assistant prosecutor, Mr. Rand, have gone away for a holiday over Sunday, entlrely unmindful of the fact that pub- lie business demands your adtention, and for which expected attention you are paid your salaries from the public funds, demands a rebuke, especially since your absence from your duties brings hardship—unnecessary hardahip “upon another human being, Others Are Tired Too, "I refer to the faot that the counsel for the defense in the Patterson case had hopes of consulting with you and your assistant to-day regarding the ad- mission of the defendant in that trial to bail, In the public prints this after- noon you are quoted as being too busy and too tired, I beg to be allowed to tell you that I—and three of my recent Associates in Ue Jury box have fully concurred with me jn this opinion— think that Mr. Levy, Mr, O'Reilly, Mr, Unger, the Recorder and every one else connected with the case are equally as (red aa you are, and that your a: sumption of carelessness as to the final isposition of the Patterson case ts, ta ¥ the least, & serious lack of Judge nt on your part, “While I have been asked not to di- vulge what ranspired in the jury-toom, itis generally isnown that’ the jury stood eight to. four in favor of acduit- Ung the defendant when the jury was Qischarged, In view of vhla,and the very general demand that the prosecu- Uon of this defendant should not take the form of persecution, three of my fellow-Jurora and myself call upon you to either promptly ‘admit this defend- nt to ball or gecide ngainat such a procedure, but not to allow this careloss Mactivity on your part and on the part of Mr, Rand’ to Become a matter of publi record and public shame. ‘ONE OF THE JURYMEN, “New York, May 6.'' ‘The chorus iirl had almost entirely recovered fiom the shock which pros: trted her on ‘Thursday mornihg, to-day and with hor sister, Mrs. J. Morgan Smith, ate a hearty breakfast, ‘O* gcther they read the marning papers and a large batch of mail. Jpon the advice of counsel the sisters refused to talk to-day, es STORY NAN PATTERSON WOULD HAVE TOLD JURY, Tt became known to-day that had Nan Patterson been permitted to take the witness stand during her recent trial ete would have gone Into covery detall of her relations with Caesar’ Young and would have declared that he com- mitted sutolde while she was with him in the cab. ‘Dbroughout her long period of Impris- onment in the Tombs after the first dis- agreement tn her trial the girl had care- fully prepared her story to tell at the next hearing. Then, almost at the last moment, it waa decided that no defense would be offered, go she did not get an opportunity 12 give her explanation to tho jury, Attorney Abraham Levy told The Evening World to-day of this story, which the girl prepared, It was a story of her intense love for "Caemr'’ Young, how, he constantly followed her, of quarrels thet were quickly patched up and followed by tender reconciliations, ef constant communication between ‘them no maitet how far apart they Rappeved to be. aM denied admission, It was the first time Miss Hooth had | or soon the actress, After a brief THE WORLD: SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 6, 190d. Legisla married John Martin and was divorced from him in San Francisco two years ago, and of her joining the Florodora”’ company, with which she was connected when she met “Caesar” Young. Tho girl was married when she first met Young in San Francisco and se- cured a divoroe, according’ to her story, at Young's suggestion, Bhe came Bast a year ago last Maron and went to live with her sister,” Mrs, J, Morgan Smith, Then she went to Los Angeles, where she mec Young. ‘They parted after he had arranged to meet her at the Well- Ington Hotel in Chicago. When they met tn came East to- gether and’ separated at Harrisburg, Pa., the girl going to Washington aud Young continuing to New York. She remained there, she says, until May 4, and then came to New York with her sister, They went to live wt the Motel Navarre, and Young called on the giri & fow days after her arrival here, she says, Agreed to Go to Europe, The Plorodora girl had been at the Navarre only a short time, according to her atory, when Young's brother in- law, MeKeon, called on her and said Mrs, Young wanted her to part trom Young, McKeon wanted to send her to Hurope, and she agreed to make the trip, under the belief thut Young also desired It, From this explanation of how Young had won her love, Induced her to ae: | cure a divorce and followed her con- stantly, the girl intended leading up to the tragedy in the amb. It was her purpose to tell of her visit to the race track on June 8 with J, Morgan Baith and his wife. ‘There they met Young. The bookmaker made a remark . catised her to laugh, and she says he then grew serious and said “You won't Jaugh yery long."* Afier the ces the girl Went direct to her home end did not visit Stern's | auwnahop, That evening at 10,80 o'clock | ‘oung telophoned her to meet him at! One Hundred and Fonteth street. and Blahth avenye, He was in. such. a hurry that he told her to take an ele- vated train Instead of a cab, When they mot they eniered a ceb and drove through Cenfrad Park until 1 o'clock, During that clde she eaye Young told her that he wan going away and did not think tt would be wise for her to follow hm, Immediately after. telling her this, sho. s: he handed her $20) and told'iher to gu to urope, Gave Her $100 Mori Next they went to Flannery'a cate, where they mot Lice. There Young counted out another $100 and gave it to the girl with the remark vhat she must not let Mrs. Young Know she was ‘olng abroad or there would be trouble, he Intended denying that Young had | slapped wher that evening, or had abused her as tho prosecution claimed, ‘According to her most recent story Young put her in a cab and sent her home, ‘The next morning Young tele: honed to her to meet him nt Pitt ninth street and Columbus avenue, When ghe got there she says Young took her into @ saloon, where they had whiskey. Leaving the saloon they entered cab and started downtown, During the ride Young insisted that’ Nan _ follow, him over to Burope, She says she re piled that she wouldno t promise to xo At this whe says he seized her roughy, nd asked her If she meant, what sh sald, Bhe made no reply, but asked him’ when he tntended returning froin Furope, Ho sald ho might be back In hree months and perhaps never, Then ho began embracing her violentiy, While he was carcasing her in’ this By T. E, Powers The Mayor's Telegram to ‘' Pat,’’ the High Custodian of the Standard Oil ’ Dough-Bag—The Mayor Can’t Understand Why the Tammany upport the Gas Bill. tors Did Not DROPS PISTOL AND IS KILLED, Policeman Thomas F. O’Byrne Shot by Accident While He Was Dressing to March in the Big Parade. Thomas. i, O'Byrne, a policeman, while dressing in lis home, at No, 4 Kast One Hundred and ‘twonty-first street, to mo on parade to-day waa ahot and killed, Tt was an acclient, O'Byrne arrived home from his tour At $ o'clock this morning, He had been ordered to parade and ho told his wite to wake him at ll o'ch fj ‘When the policeman began to dress at that time hia wife went Into the Kitchen to cook his breakfast, leaving Nim cleaning his revolver," A few minutes later she was startied by the Feport of & shot_and then a heavy fall She found her husband unconscious, on the floar, his revolved lying at his side He was dead when Dr, Dimock arrived from the Harlem Hoypital, Mrs, O'Byrne said that her husband had been putting on Ila trousers and that his revolver must have fallen trom the pockeg to the floor, and in that way have been discharged. He was forty: | five yeare old and had been on the force seventeen years, He. leaves three chil-! Gren and @ widow. For the past year he has been attached to the West Ono Hundred and Twenty-firth Stree sta. ton. ‘Aldermen P. J. O'Byrne 4s @ brother of the dead patrolman: CENSURED BY GRAND JURY. The Queens County April Grand Jury, which was Qcharged by Justice Gay-| nor at Flushing to-day, handed up a. presentment in which the Rorough De- Partment of Buildings was assallea ‘The Grand Jurora declared chat the department should be able to keep the County Buildings in decent repair and that their co) a i ton Wa LOST AT TRACK, GOES INSANE Bookmaker James J. Quinn, Sud- denly Crazed on Street Car, ls Committed to Bellevue— Had “Queer Spells” 2 Years. James J. Quinn was committed in the Harlem Police Court to-day to Belle Yue Hospital to ‘have his mental condi- tlon inquired Into, Quinn, who lives with his wife, Antoinette, and two children at No, 971 West One Hundred and Nineteenth street, 18 a well-known bookmaker, familarly known as "Gut- tenburg Jim’ because of his prominence at the old New Jersey track years ago, When Quinn lett his home to-day he Appeared all right, but a little later on an Eighth avenue car he frightened several Women passengers by shouting they're off, Colontal Glrl wins.”’ ‘Me conductor got him off the car, but he kept up the shouting until he at tracted a large crowd. A policeman took him to the station house, where he was recognized by Police Captain Burns as an old acquaintance, Mrs, Quinn sald he has acted queer at Umes for two years, and as he lost heavily at the Belmont track opening It Ig belleved this had something to do with his condition, LOTTIE ELLIOTT LOSES SUIT Nope Dancer Asked for 8150 All- + Mony and $1,500 Counsel Feo, Lottle Rillott, rope dancer, who asked for $160 weekly and $1,500 counsel fee, will get no alimony, in her action for a separation from "Abe" Leavitt, tae aurical manager, Whose nanie in private Weis Abraham Levy. Mrs, Levy charged | her husband with cruelty, and he ae. | cused her of friendliness for Dr. Benja. | min Wolft, He alleges that she felgned Mnesa that the doctor might call, “and hat she got Intoxteated In 1902. drunken fashion, she says, she suddenly ‘heard the report of a pistol, Tho next she romembors, she ways, In seo- iL) conv! thin, Ina Soune fall upon her jap. ‘igtan's atoty 1h Ticing, anid did no nie it tell ft, how her to An American achievement— the best gin in the world. Y EL-BART Dry Gin—It’s clean, Look for the flag HIGH OFFICIALS INSTANDARD OIL ARE INDICTED True Bills Returned Against Two by Grand Jury in Illinois, WILL BE EXTRADITED, Gov. Deneen to Issue the Neo- essary Papers In the Case Next Monday. NAMES ARE KEPT SECRET.) Proceedings Show that the Persons Indicted Are Residents of Another State, \ PEORIA, Ill, May 6—The grand jury | at Pekin, Ii, has returned indictments against two high officials of the Stand- ard Ol Company. Requisition papers will ba asked of Gov, Deneen next Monday, ‘The names have been suppressed, ‘The men named in the indictments are fald to bo residents of Cincinnati. ‘Ihe two officials are charged with hav. ing induced one Charles Kersher to swear that he owned @ horse and wagon, which really belonged to the Standard Oll Company, to got posses- sion of the eame, In order to force Fred Hamault, a resident of Pekin, to qutt seVing the product of the Royal Ol Company, an opposition concern, ‘The story is as follows: In 1901 Hamault purchased from a man who represented himeelf tovbe an agent of tho Standard O11 Company a tank wagon used In peddling oi! about the | streets of the city. After a time ho) ceased to handle the Standard O!! and} began to acll the product of the Royal O11 Company. Repeated efforts to get Hamsult to buy | trom the Btundard having failed, Ker-| sher arrived on the scene and after failure to induce him to return to the) Standard, filed sult in the court of Jus-| {ce Jacob Rapp, to replevin the wagon, swearlng that 1t was hia property, Ho made the case stick, furnished the necessary replevin bond, and on May 15, 1902, was given possession of the prop- erty. The caso was called to the attention of the oflce of the Attorney-General Sf the State of Ohio, and in confunction With, the State's Attorney of Pekin, Charlee Schaefer, evidence was secured which showed conclustvely that tho property belonged to the Standard Of) Compuiy, and that Kersher, who re-| plevined ‘It, is @ Secret Service in_thrie employ. Clty Attorney Schaefer fs authority ‘op the statement that every effort has | deen made to bring the two officials to Pekin for trial, According to several officials of the | Standaml Ol Company, at No. 2 Brond- way, and at the offices of the attorneys for the Standard Ol Company, Elliott & Dold, no word had been recetved up the hour an Evening Work! reporter called there to-lay of the indictment of two high officials of the company. Charles Splers, in the private office of | man 1. H, Rogers, sgid that the oftce had) not been Informed of aary indlolmert and the seme was recited on inquiry of Comptroller A. H. Brainard, Mr. M, F. Elliott, of Elliott & Dodd, ared that the information wae news im. At the oftice of John D. Rockefeller, | jr, the statement was seat out that no’ news wal at hand jn the matter of InMletments, An official of the company 1n the event of such news being re- ceived the matter will at once be called to BOY KILLED BY COLLAPSE OF BANDIT CAVE Washington Heights Lads Had Made Excavation in Vacant Lot. ‘The regular Saturday morning frolic ot the boye who live near Amsterdam avenue and Ono Hundred and Forty- seventh street came to a tragic end tor day when the roof of a large cave the youngsters have spent months in build: {ng collapsed, burying two boys under tons of earth. One was dug out In time to save his life, but when the tas- cuers reached the other It was tod late. ‘There were a few breaths left in him, but ho died within a minute after 11,000 VOLT SHOCK KILLS A WORKMAN Machine Oiler Got Full Force of Current in Interborough Power-House, Only a ved spot on his left arm hardly. larger than l0-cent plece showa the death wound received by Christopher Meehan, a man of thirty-two, who lived at No, 980 Tenth avenue and who waa) killed in the puwer-house of the Intem~ borough Rapid ‘Transit Company, Bitty. ninth street and Bleventh avenue, tow day, Meehan, who was employed as am oller of machinery, was ctanding over some pipes through which oil flows to the macninery, in the centre of this being taken out, The dead boy was Charles Arni, ten years old, of No, 178 Amsterdam ave- nue, and the boy that was injured js Frank Reener, nine years old, who lives in the same house, These two youngsters were the lead- ers of a crowd of every-day boys with good imaginations, The cave was built aftor weeks of toll as the rendezvous of a band of pirates, Sometimes the Pirates were Indians, sometimes they wore bandits and sometimes they wero just ordinary outlaws, Great Place for Play, There tsn't the same fleld for a spread of {magination in the environment of an Aingterdim avenue lot as there was for ‘tum Bawyer and Huck Finn In thelr cave, but tLe New York boys managod to have a pretty good timo, They built the cave in the centre of the lot, They dus with old shovels and pleces of wood and finally excavated a place about ten by twelve feat, This was the Jair of the bad men, and during the past few weeks more than one dark plot has been hatched there, and more than one stack of imaginary loot piled up in the corner, Untortu- nately the youngsters were not as good engineers as they were diggers and they ok no precaution to shore up. thelr of, ‘he frost kept It solfd, however, unui recently, ‘Then some’ workmen warned the boys that there was dangor of the roof caving In. Of course the youngsters pald no attention to that, Saturday has been the wrent day’ at the cave always, Some of the young- siers were there, before break fist, bul was about 9 o'clock when the chiety of the band, Arni and Roener, arrivo.l, While they ‘conferred on what ilps. to overbaul or what train or stage coaca to hold up the others went outside and avon got to playing on the roof, Collapsed Without Warning, Without warning the entire root caved in, ‘The boys on top managed to save themselves, but Arnl and Roe- her were buried under tone of earth, Auguatis Hackney, of No. 475 Weat Fifty-third street, was working nearby ahd gave the alarm, Other qen came, With picks wnd shovels and finally got Hoener out, ‘The men then quit working, not real- wing that there Was another boy in the ave. As BOON as Roener came to his fepses hiv wowed if thoy had got Charli out, ‘The men Went back to work and finally reached him, Restoratlves were administered, but he could not be saved, News of thy accident spread rapidly and soon there waa a big crowd of ex. gited, mothers in the lot, each looking for her boy, Ag each one got her {oungeter she led him home In a hurry, Then Mrs, Arnl arrived and heard that her boy was dead she collapsed and had to be carried home CHAMBERLAIN ILI, WITH SEVERECHILL,. BIRMINGHAM, England, May 6,— Joseph Chamberlain, who with dimcul- ty addressed the Committee of the Unionist Association, of Birmingham, last night, {8 suffering from a severe chill and was too indisposed to attend the reopening ceremony at Queen's College here this afternoon. Ebenezer Paik Member of Parita- ment for the Central Division of Birm- to the attention of the company's at- tornys, Hlliott & Dodd. 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HAVE ESPECIALLY PRE TRIMMED HATS in the styles most in favor at p MONDAY, B. Altman & Cn. at very attractive prices on MAY EIGHTH, PARED A NUMBER OF and TURBANS, resent, and will offer them jino of pipes is a switca which controls the now, Meehan was several feet from the Uyimno {rou Walon eieotricity Wad bee | Ing generated, when it is suppoled he wiew back his loft arm, whieh bared to the elbow, touching the 0. Workmen, in, the power-bouse startled by'a flash and a crack Humes, wid at the same instant Meehan aprih saw N i into the alr and He dled instantly, Wleven thor Nolte of @lectricity had pussed thea pod Meehan lived with his wife and childrely, When’ sho Was told of Naw. husband's death she fell unconsolous | and for a time her condition Waa se. rious, ‘The body was taken to the West Forty-seventh street pollce station, The wife sald that she had no money rehich to defray funora AMMEYE C 6th AY., Cor. 20th St. Special Sale To-Night In Our Basement from 5 to10 0’Clock Men’s $2.50 Oxfords, Velour Calf and , Patent Coltskin, $1 50 . Women’s $1.50 Oxfords, Black Kid,patent leather tips, Cue ban and military heels, $7.00 Misses’ $2.00 Venus Pumps. to2, Child's $1.50 Venus Pumps. to 10. Patent Leather Sizes 44 $] 25 Patent Leather Slzes 6 $ 1 00 Commencing Monday, May 8th. May Sale of — Mushn | Underwear, Silk Petticoats, Corsets and Kimonos. 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