The evening world. Newspaper, January 20, 1906, Page 3

TT THE-WORLD: SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 20, 1908. CAPT. MARK CASTO, ATLANTIC CITY HERO, HIS WIFE.AND SON. iF ATHER OF BOY ~AILLED BY CHR SEAS JUSTICE On Way from School Run Down in Tenth Street. TO STOP ALL LEMS. N EXAMINATIONS. Civil-Service Commission Of- fers a Reward for Expos- ure of Fraud: OMEN RAISE FUND TO FREE DR. SIMPSON ndless Chain’? Sub- scription Started for Accused Dentist. For the first time in {ts history the Municipal Civil Service Commission is ‘out with offers of rewards for Informa- tion that will lead to the detection of those in or out of the Jepartment who offer to sell information to candidates for various positions in the city govern= ment. The Board makes its offer through its President, William Z, Baker, . jin an advertisement published in the Recon, offer Is made in connection with forthcoming examination for patrol men in the Pollee Departmen’, applica tions for which will be received from Feb. 1 to Feb, 28. This acthm: recalls the old stories of scandal whieh oym- nected certain officials af the police and clvil service departments to. sell pro- motions and positions for p. consideras tion, x Some men have been dismissed from the Police Department mainly for this EN,TOO,WOULD ASSIST PROTESTS NOT HEEDED. “Jacob Casto HERO CASTO I - TLL; AMICT Crosstown Line Makes Race} Course of Street to Gain Lost Time. plication for Habeas Corpus Writ Immediate Step in His Behalf. (Boecial from @ Staff Correspondent.) NORTHPORT, 1. I., Jan, 20a popu- ‘Sar subscription to ald Dr, James Wed- @eN Simpson, held on the charge of mordering his father-in-law, Burtley T. Horner, was begun yesterday. Not only “T shall find out what the law can do ‘*to protect children in this town,'’ said George J. Smyth at his home, No, 22 ‘West Tenth street, to-day. Mr. Smyth's five-year-old gon lay dead in the next room, killed shortly after 3 o'clock yes- joes BS Meer the women, many of whom grew hys- terday afternoon by a@ Christopher pecans paeyawould have been’ prose terical when the hearing ended, are street car near No, & Christopher | criminally but there waa never ences GC Ge i enough legal evidence for the reaso ¢) advocat o is, but some of the street. that the briber was just as gullt W wealthiest and most Influential men on 4 “My boy Alfonso,” continued Mr. z Os eulty es the reselver and would never dare tes Long Island have rallied to his support, uty. The man who was held as a cold- , Blooded murderer after the most dra- matic trial in the history of Suffolk County is to-day a martyr in the eyos of hundreds. The women of Northport have alreatly started an “endless chain” of letters that will extend to many States. Every Person who participates will send 10 ‘cents to Lawyer Wilkinson and will mvrite ten letters to other persons asi- Smyth, "had to go to and from Bt. Jo- seph's Academy, No. 14 Waverley place, every day with his brother, who is a year and a halt older, and his ais- ter, who ia not yet four years old. “The streets along here are narrow end rough, and I have lived in morta: dread of accidents ever since my child- ven began to go to school. Not that tiere need by any danger, but that the rulrpad company will not take proper, or even decent precautions. Only las: Open Charges of Scandal. In spite of all the protestations of tne nocence made the hand of suspicion has generally pointed to some one or more of the eiployees of tie Civil-Service Commission. it was openly alleged that the examination papers for promotion in the Police Department from rank to rank were openly vol. to candidates, At (one exuminacion a sergeant was cau in the room with the papers up his Brave Life-Saver Stricken After Clover Club Reception. (Special to The Evening World.) ing for ald. In this way thounands of PHILADELPHIA, Jan, 20.—The stren- |Or Oven. be guia. wi sleeve, held there by a rubber band ‘ i y gone other man's chi as hich, jollars ure oxpected to be raised for ors Ife of the last few weeks has |BACUIORy Mote one place. Which he pulled up and down as ho Proved too much for gallant Capt. Mark Casto, the Cherokee wreck hero. He 1s quite ill here with bronchitis at the} Hotel Bellevue. Dr. L. M. Knox, his physician, reports his condition as not the defense of the accused man before the Grand Jury sits in March, Prisoner in Good Spirits. Simpson's sister. who ts the wife of a At the list examination for patrol- men more than 7.00 candidates were on hand. Tt was rumored that more than half pald cor the papers. At another cxam{nation the newspapers got wind of the fact that the papers were belng Make Up Lost Time. “The cars g) west, to the ferry, on 4enth street, and east on Christopher. Going west they lose time tn the bank cashier at Mount Jackson, W. Va, serious. But the Captain will not be |erowded section eas: of Sixth avenue, sold ‘and published It nae eee 3 s . ult tha sent him a message of condolence to- able to return to his home, at Pleas-| nd this time they make up along here Rxamining Board prepared an entirely day that was delivered to him befors antville, before Monday at the earllest.|to the ferry. Then, all the time lost new set of, papers much to the shagtty of those who had pat algh cone pald thelr money the tis to guard against anythi that In. the fortheoming examinations that the Clvil Service Commission bas adopted the unusual method of offering ‘ewards as well as to -w: zt candidates, ee Combination Broker. Until reownthy there was a widespread pellet that @ triumvicate existed In por lice and civil service circles to take everything In sight. but proof could not be secured to establish the fact. It is known that the combination has been broken, but it is feared that others may he formed. ‘That the old stories of graft are already in the alr is best evi- denced by the action which President Baker has taken. fhe took the train for Riverhead Jail, Although he collapsed in the course of the trial, he never scemed tn such gol spirits an he did when he ate a hearty breakfast at the Commercial House, yn Sheriff Wells and Constable Haugher adjusted his handcuffs he fokingly sald: “Well, I've bean wearing heavy jew- eiry 90 lone now I'm getting to be an expert.” One reason, perhaps, for the change In the aititude of the men of the village was the discovery that Dr, Simpson faved from drownigx hin father-in-law, the man he 1s accused of murdering. It ‘Was known previously that he braved Mrs. Casto, who came down to Phila- delphia with her husband to attend the Clover Club dinner Thursday night, has entire charge of his nursing. Mrs. Casto, after whom the brave little sloop Alberta was named, is as plucky a sick room nurse as her husband is a life- saver, and with her good management the Captain 1s expected to be quite him- self in a few days. Mrs, Casto attributes her husband's condition to the extreme strain he has been uhder and his loss of rest and sleep. Since the day of the rescue Capt. | Casto has not had one night of proper sleep. With the round of fete-making t the water front, through trucking. crowds and all that, they try t) make p along the part of Christopher street fwest of Sixth avenue. “No longer ago than Christmas timo one of the priests of St. Jo:wph’s Academy made a complaint to the com- pany of the terrible speed along here but he couldn't get any satisfaction, Other complaints have been made. All in the world they've got to do is to make all cars stop at every crossing in the school districts, specially at hours when the children are going and coming. $ “There are 1,600 pupils at the com- MIS Casto. RIOT CALL CAUSED BY BOY STRIKERS Messengers Who Went Out HAT ONLY CLUE N GIRL MURDER Negro Marshman Held for THOMAS 1S NOT TO BE PROSECUTED Manager of Bank Note Com- ; : i aay a and congratulating there has been n0| bined St. Joseph The Civil. Service Commission has fe Galveston flood to rescue his wise: | “Entertain” One Who Didn't | ume for revt. From the dinner given| and they sll neve te crore the wen pany to Be State Investigation of Miss — | which, “i” ascepted by the: Siste Chit Horner ‘has caused him to be remarded Till Police Arrive. | jby his Atlantic City brothers, the] car tracks right near there, Witness, : Service Board, will be used at @ hero In the esteem of some men. _ Saved Horner from Drowning. ‘Dr. Simpson himself told the story of the feat to an Evening World reporter Yesterday as he waited for the train to take him to Riverhead. "Yes," he said, “I saved the life of Dr. Horner. We were fishing In Great South Bay when a squall struck the sloop. Mr. Horner was hit by a wave that dashed over the deck and was carried over the side. I caught his feet md we both hung there until we were At one minute and thirteen seconds past 11 o'clock to-day the telephone ap- paratus at Police Headquarters zipped and spluttered. “Quick, send us help.” gurgled @ voice over the wire. ‘Send us help quick; quick, send us help. There's a riot here in front of No. 211 West One Hundred aud Twenty-fifth street, the Harlem Branch of the A. D. T.; the strikers are dasaulting one of our loyal employees. Eagles, to the banquet of the Clover Club the captain has been a busy guest Had No Fender. of honor. Operation on His Eye. “The car that killed my boy had no fender and was going so fast that it took it over a block to stop. Ex-Al- Capt. Casto expected to undergo a slight operation to-day at the Chirurgi- cal Hospital. He has a slight chirur- gian growth of the conjuctiva over the corner of his left eye. The membrane is not heavy. Dr. Know removed a similar growth from his right eye last May. up of —_—.——_ derman Joseph A. Flynn, who picked the body said that he is sure the gong didn't sound. How the rest of the children escaped is beyond me to un- derstand, They were all together. “The company couldn't stand the loss a little time; they'd rather come tearing down narrow streets at a pace that would get an automobilist arrested, Manager Harry Thomas, of the fltan Bank Note Compan Ham- prosecute by District-Attorney Jerome for the perjury which he admits” he committed in the police court in No- vember last. request of that aud, Charles Augustus Set clous ay The perjury was at the swindler, who is y now on trial for srand larceny before Re- cordur Goff and ahead of whom lies another trial for the alleged forgery of Allinson’s Death. (Special to The Evening World.) MOORESTOWN, N. J.,.Jan. 20.—Miss Florence Allinson, who was murdered by @ negro on the Strawhridge estate, near here, will be buried to-day. There 1s no doubt that Miss Allinson was killed by a negro, and the feeling against any man who Is arrested and Identified as her slayer will again assume mob vio- lence, draxged back." Quick, send help,” | NEW VESSEL A TRIBUTE but when an accident happens they can Norisik and Wanérn allway certs: The murderer must be Identified by Dr. Slmpaon seem to think this deed| ‘This eariest appeal was translate! TO HERO AND HIS CREW. | ae the time and expense of any | Sy) ; little Bessie Walker, the six-year-old of less moment than his sorrow at the|to Inspector Sweeney, of the Harlom ‘2 ae of thelr people to go to broken-} ‘tomas has made clean breast of his| Child, who saw the negro before and im- testimony of his wife. “I love her sul." | pistrict, and he ordered out five police- MARK CASTO. ar women and men and try dealings with Seton, both in the matter | mediately after he crushed in Miss Al- | fhe said, mournfully. "I cannot tell! men and a roundsman froin tne West - ATURE CHES oe Sone ete make them keep, thelr mouths shut, | of, Houston, Gulvesion and Interurban | iingon's skull, put a strap about her What has come over her.” He paused! ye Hundred and Twenty-sixth street fellow townsmen of Capt. Mark Casto| who takes cure of our house, was down | deal. He has never recolved more than| throat and a blanket around her head and for a moment the self-possession| gt :ou, ‘Taere was Roundsman Muil- are planning a little event that wilit|h the street ina minute after the ac- | $100 all told in presents from Seton, and | 80 that her groans could not be heard, that had marked hia demeanor disap-} apxy in the van (night stick drawn, show the brave Cherokee hero, when he | CG°%5, aut whe couldn't, beat a streot- | what he did in. the transactions which | and left her dend in the barn. Deared. grim featured, With siant t comes back, just what people think of y to try to Influence her. ae de vas of HO profit ey He ant: ot|_ Three negroes, Henry Marsham, Beroat God.'" he moaned, “why must |suriues jue. lec. Loree Rosenthug him. The Atlantic City Board of] ,,,Pertunately, I've lived right here all| no. loss to lis company, Leford Lombard and William Smith J suffer her suepicion?” He raised his) ini Teectives Graham and Breslin, ‘Trade 1» arranging a dinner for Capt.| one took my mother away. "Ping ‘Que | As long ago as October Inst Assistant }are Incustody on suspicion, but Bessio | ‘manecled hands, dragxing upward the} *4 DMCUYts gallant. force of public Canto and his crew on Jan. 27, at which | came to the heise end vay, phen they | pistriat-Attorney Garvan suspected that | Walker was unable to identify any one rm of Constable Hauer, who was their Way to restore, pre- sary { he Th @ when | Tomas was 4 tool of Seton's and he | } : 4 asel Cosi 8 resen : wan & M a 5 . : | Ranoutted to him. Then he recovered | Kerve and compel. order, ‘Let us pieced & vessel costing G00 1s to ‘be: presented | iff wit me at a time Uke that er | communioated that Zact 0 the Hamil |e aay tt Aulwonia funeral was a cm to. the #cene of Tictlon, rlot an 0 them. “Well, L have 3 . The | held to-day. bimself and sald, calmly: “To win back | them to the sve! ‘Goa allige: who eruoenten’ts eit Lbave the backing and the po-| request, was made that ‘Thomas te | Marshman was seen in the nelghbor- bo 10 pre e diamond Proper way to a in his position, pending deo ™my wife's confidence I would prefer.a| yefore. tue threshold there stands Nava Senaltions noper way t0| tained in his position, pending Jevelop- | hood of the Strawbridge home on. the trial before a judge and twelve jurors. hetter known as “Red Young Mother a Wreck]studded medal of the Philadelphia | evory father and mother in New ‘ork | ments, it believed now, however, |day of the murder. At that time, It 1s To secure that vindication I would will- ond’ "Hot Gxustard,” the leader. of Clover Club to the hero, is to make the | wiil join.” that {f the Norfolk & Western forgeries ‘alleged by an oll dealer named unie . Cars without fenders were running on ‘Thomas believed that § “Ha 4 ? oe raat wile was see Guna gl Under Harlem Viaduct. wets daring captain coming to bs own | it ing ody nr ey rye on | SaE EcPOUY awe an thug ge | ucts Zour Manan Diack hater ’ FOR MORE THANA \ oie) ™ an . Now he Is o 18 O} ced one, oy 7 Se rae een | cei tuseauan Cand a Reteeea or rose been famous around here for his dare: | poth law: ware kan’ Deaides fouatfal| Sot ght on pam | pron one ion Funke aald Wa handy to pass out to Jeremiah J. Ol- ..|devil rescues, for which he has received | contusions about the face made his body | “In view of the fact of Thombs having When did your ‘husband this UARTER CENTURY fm carriages and automobiles crowded | BYNCy to een eT manager. Biene Picoro, of No. 327 East Sixty a than. corned unrecognizable, become a State's witness whatever he| jar just?" the woman wae anon, @bout to shake his hand and tell him/ “tie possible nine Is going to sleep | ninth strect, an attractive young Ttallan|#ateely more than | Sans Mr, Smyth is a Deputy Surveyor of| has done which might be made a sub | Mwy" ne wore HUnelAy Sl Bho: THE LEADING of thelr belief in his innocence. His| with his head on a cobblestone, cheW-| woman, found unconscious and half sub- Only three weeks ago Martin Hikon, | the Port of New York, a momber of the | fect of criminal procedure will over- | repliad. : | rT they fluttered about,; !ng perfunctorily upon the shoe of a ‘ Harlem Ri ‘One|* Asherman, abandoned in his leaking | Republican County Committee, a district | looked. It was sud to-day that he will |"Tast ‘night Marshman’s wife called at . c | eyes grow moist as they flutter +1 Bere yhen the ““lippity-flop’’ of po-| merged in the xa River at One|’ To was towed into port by Mark | Pariy, leader, and'a grand officer of 16! be atm t factor in the Norfolk | que ema sy ” FOR : until Constable Hauger draged him|7/", "ina detective feet throbs on the| Hundred and Fifty-ffth streot to-day, | oop ee ee a eet onm. oyal jum, and Western case when it comes to] ‘why ‘did ‘you send’ for your. black 5G through the barrier aboard the train. | ain ascribes her plight to the faot that al-|Caato through & vertible stant a ne | nf ormer Alderman Joseph A. Flynn, at | trial. ““ahe demanded, COLLA RS ingly go through all the torments of humiliation of indict- To Ask Habeas Corpus Writ. uene has had six children. Investigation] oft shore, While his men put off in the | the Smyth boy was run down by a ca ° THE TEST OF . ‘. ed as if he © , with four police- | has bn biew. wh a car denci eee OE ae eaisnent and trial posite) ee. ‘DY, ‘omice from | proves this statement to be a fact. Coletta rey Ad ae an thet, rea nipaking reckless speed, that “What id you throw away your crea LION SS ee to prove hls innocence, Lawyer Wilkin-|the terrible eight, ‘rhe possi''". # did) she was married when fourteen years! crew ‘in ‘the nd brought” them | ifthe oat tad begun to SME 28028: | inepector Must Stand ‘Trial on | lothes, for?’ the wife demanded, ‘and Ht dentist wan | Rot sn the strike, bal v of age. On one occasion she had twins.|{o hore. Casto knew Hilton was alone | parat i he Waverley place, . prion Anes Rae Fenty, Olan won como Om Monday Mr, | WETK £05, pweck of so; The atrivery| All of tho children are dead. ‘The last| there ina ‘bad boat. 0 he put out to| Oris (e had stopped at Waverlay place, i pat Eph “The Camden police ai noon arrested ‘Wilkinson will apply to Supreme Court) work on Sundays or not. buried on Monday from No. 33// #8, jm, fhe fies took | 88,221 care should but do not, or & the! Charges were preferred aguinst In-| another negro suspect in the case, He Justice Gaynor, of Brooklyn, for a writ of habeas corpus, on the ground that Dr. Simpson has been held on insuf™- elent and incompetent evidence. read: ” the tore in| great risk, but on ene of the fact that this a Romed ‘District-Attorney Furman is ready to much,” the girl wife told the doctors 1 Capt. Mark put out, ran along- @ neigh. | ene cnds are after Schmittberger © jor the purpose of identification. Og eAThe Ereneription Pharmacy. have Dr. Simpson re-arrested on a war-| Another strike of messengers in Wall lwaghington Heights Hospital, “but “4 | shosed. Cpt METS Pi pete no one | Dornood of children. aR * rant from a Justice of the Sxadabope} g Partridge, who conduct than Justice Bi Mocragaherg ‘ hearing just ended. sgldir. Furman says, be convene a ptt grand jury at Riverhead within B week, and attempt to secure an in- ni + Dr, ified | jinn) across room “hirectly beside Dr. no close that In the ath” inebowed head of the fer denounced | Ears 2 Eales ‘was painted in the flar- Moptye es 3 even ler the wi were bowed a him as one acetal ® murder that i je from the two women the money the ure ; di apell be mov dhatwuriking messenger Boys, ‘There are eight strikers. Etght out of a possible nine, and the possible ninth is in the “Cheese it!" cries “Red Nut,” where- the desperate strikers vamoose. —— WALL STREET BOYS ; ALSO ASK MORE PAY street is threatened unless the demands of the A, D, 1, boys at No. 16 Broad street are granted before the opening of business on Munday. Encouraged by the success of the Postal boys, me A. asked for a raise, camer Of threo | boys—Waltor aney. Jueeph Lapin ‘ompkinus— chosen by the 20 boys at the Broad street office, As mb Skelton ay madway an yy street ak noon a Bimweonted their demunds, They ‘ask for uvo_cents a met fe. At, present the A.D. 'T. pays In Wail street 1% cents for avery, message deliver Conte euch fut messtges coltected In wer to. is. wT Skelton received the boys and talked to thém at some length. They were encouraged to believe from what he said that he looked with favor on the proposition of increasing their pay. half en hour IS stream of For they, had denunciation 1 pe peurd he. turned Through Trouble, Found though she is but twenty years old she West Sixty-ninth street, where tho young woman lives with her husband, a furnace tender. “] don't mind all I have suffered 80 feel so bad about the bables dying. 1 tried awfully hard to keep the last one, and when he died, too, I didn't care much about lving. “Yesterday I had an argument with women in the house. I went away jabout 10 o’olock in the morning and ‘walked over the Central Park. The last I remember I was in the park near a lake, I don't know how I got to Har- Jom, but suppose I walked through the perk and kept right on until I was too tired to go further, ‘The girl was found at One Hundred and Fifty-fifth strest and the Harlem River, under the viaduct, with part of her body buried in the sand and the water rolling over her limbs, It is posslbe that she ‘would have drowned had not Charles Hinck, a driver, of One Handred and Seventioth street and Cronevell avenue, not happened along. Hinok saw the insensible form of the submerged in the water. He dragwed her to dry ground and tried to awaken hor. street station, ran up. Wed an ambulan ‘throw! from the viaduct, and | tn °Gramination ‘ot her bode that she was not brulsed: lothes rangement loned by the ‘the water. fore the amb h mn 10 abulanes: presentation speech. ‘The towns people are all glad to see was left alone on his boat four miles craft, Hilton on board and towed his boat in. It was only a month ago that Casto afier the burning schooner . when she went sailing down the coast wreathed in flames. It was a the chance there, * ht to be a high-salaried arte re up to mow he's bees only} fel je his rescues as & matter of' course, without thought of| ise ond reward. Pime Cherkee wreck atiil las off the bar, She settled about six feet yes- terday. Unless a northeast wind comes up she may last a couple of weeks, Ret, CASTO MAY SHARE IN CARNEGIE FUND. PITTSBURG, Jan. 20.—Secretary and Manager F, M, Wilmot, of the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission, left for At- lantic City lust night to assist Special Agent George A. Campsey, of the Hero Fund, in looking Into the work of rescue at the late Cher: isaster, where t. Mark 0 and crow’ of ti Alberta did such herolo work. ec BUTLER NAMES. DEPUTIES. Meo- Heary J. Darwin and John Keown Appointed, Edmund Butler, Tenement Howse Commissioner, to-day appointed as his First Deputy Henry J. Darwin, of this McKeown, of Brovklyn, his home, No. 63 Perry street, gald “I am prepared to take agitation Standing Upright in IVORYTON, Conn., Norris) and Brnest Davidson, each twelve years old, were drowned in Petti- their Bodies were fourid ‘While returning broke ‘When WII Join Father, my oath that fo make up time in an 0 have contiitions Anh SS UEEEEEEENEEGaeeeeeeeee BOYS FOUND DROWNED. Pond After Breaking Through Ice. Jan. 20,—Harold and last night by a searching school cross the thin tre, ‘were found both were in an erect position in about rix thelr fest became 4 or undergrowth at Ty ot The boys belonged to prominent | ‘famities in this place. To Sleep Soundly Drop Coffee. POSTUM FOOD COFFEE im tts place quiets nerves nd restores circulation, “There's a Reason.” had not been perpetrated that Thomas would have stuck to Seton, Until Seton's arrest in connectign with these SS SCHMITTBERGER ON RACK. spector Schmittberger to-day with Com- misstoner Bingham. Schmittberger —_ recently preferred he wore a black hat. After his arrest deputy sheriffs went to his home and asked his wife: hat “T didn't send for it," he replied. ‘The Mcers went there and got It for evi- gave the name of Je: win, who more closely answers the description of the murderer than any yet arrested, His home is within a stone's throw of charger against Capt. Dooley. of the ‘Tenderloin statlon. Now Divoley or some where Miss Allinson was killed. Hej was taken to Moorestown by detectives hi velopment and strength wil rm and the mental test the other half. ‘Tho mental test will, embrace an.ele- mentary lnowledge.of government, in fermation as to olty streets and locali- es, writing from memory the stunice of communicated orders, such other subjects us al scribed. All applicants must be @ least twenty-one years old and not more than y. There are a. of men at present on the eligtbl but under the various bills passed Albany the Commissioner has the power to add several hundreds a year. "LION BRAND Cure Your Rheumatism GRIFFITH'S Compound Mixture of Guaiac, Stillingia, Etc. nal Kemedy. Grimes reneriptton Pha NEW PUBLICATIONS, NEW PUBLICATIONS. | To Journalists There is an article in MUNSEY’S MAGAZINE for January which is quite worth your reading. ENGLISH AND AMERICAN JOURNALISM, by HENRY WATTERSON. This article is written in Mr. Watterson’s charming and vivid style, and is the best presentation of the subject, couched within the space of a magazine article, I have ever read. The January FRANK A. MUNSEY. MUNSEY is still on sale. 175 Fifth Avenue, New York. NEW PUBLICATIONS. It is called Pues ac