The evening world. Newspaper, March 1, 1906, Page 1

PRICE ONE CENT. — NEW YORK, THU RSDAY, OOo Tes “Circulation Books Open to All,”” RESUL TS EDITION} MARC SH I, 1906. PRICE ONE CON a ONE CENT. BERTHE CLAICHE SOBS AS SISTERS PET HER IN COURT Girl Breaks Down at Mute Evidence of Sympathy from Loved Ones Brought Into C ourt to Be Iden- tified— Fainted at Recess. JUDGE KNOCKS OUT ONE PROP OF STATE'S CASE) - whinge. «‘There Is No Evidence of Conspiracy to Kill ” Gerdron, He Declares from Bench— Police Plot to Send Girl to Chair, f Berthe Claiche broke down in court late this afternoon for the first) ime since her trial for the murder of Emil Gerdron began. Says Counsel. It was when her two sisters were brought in for identification by Policeman Harry Morton, who was on the stand. At sight of her sisters the girl collapsed, leaned her face on the table and was convulsed with sobs. She had been weak and nervous all day. At noon recess she had fainted as she reached the Tombs, and a physician had been called to attend her. | €he was pale and trembling when she returned to court. Harry Morton was the chief witness of the afternoon, and almost at the very start of his evidence Judge Davis had knocked out one prop of the | State's case by declaring that “there tween Harry is no evidence of any conspiracy be- Morton and this defendant to kill Gerdron,” ning, Judge Rosalsky said the girl would plead self-defense. Then he promised more sensations in connection with the police anu “We will reveal a condition as to the police that will shock you all. In op said: “We will prove that this girl ts signed to send her to the electric chi tions on the force." closed their case unex- day after an expert had the love letters found in ink were written by Berthe @iaiche: Judge Otto Rosalsky made the open- address for the defense, trict Attorney,” sald Judge 3 1 you in his opening ad- ss that it is not necessary to es- 1 motive to prove murder. That Hut when a motive is estab- it lends flaver to premeditation Jeliverition, and ¢ “A » of the case of the State we fi District-Attorney asking you to convict of murder inspired by tree distinct motives, “First he maintained that the killing was “the result of a conspiracy be- tween this defendant and the police- gman Harry Morton, Next he made the motive love for Lorenzo, whom he did not call, Last, he makes the motive batred and revenge.” Will Plead Solf-Defense. Judge Rosalsky said the defense qwould show justification under the law. in the course of the entabliah- meat of our case we will reveal a gondition in (he Police Department that will shock you as citizens of | his great Empire State. “We will prov ¢his is a police case; & conspiracy gentlemen, that | the victim of a police conspiracy, de air to save certain officers their posi. PRICE OF ICE IS UP AND IT WILL GO STILL HIGHER Commodity for the Pres- ent Will Be 40 Cents a Hundred. The first verification of tce famine came to-day with the announcement of the American Ice Company that the cents per 1W pounds, With ice at this price now there ls every prospect that jthe figure will be unprecedented by June, | Tue open winter has, of course, been the primary cause of the small supply and the greater part of the commodity price of ive has been advanced to W]Y, FIGHTER NEILIS ARRESTED = Johnnie Voorkeis, Has Anyone Seen. My Poodle - , Tl Make Sil Look Lie ABIue Pill” They \y.ll roll for $500 a side at tl 13. Details may be found on Page 14. BOWLERS SMITH AND VOORHEIS FINALLY MATCHED. he Superba alleys, Brooklyn, March FRELBOOTER AT CITY PAR Billy Handsell Only in Third Race. CITY PARK, March 1.—The flelds were of good fot the pookies. Starters, Bonert, U1. Tom N Tmo ta Length Behind Winner considered, the day looked a good one FIRST RACE—Three and a half furlongs. Won by Bonert, Tom Nolan was sec- K to Bother with Commissioner Bingham let loose to- day with a sulphuric defl and an an- nouncement that the Mayor and the Governor can have his resignation any time they want it, He didn’: say |resigration, but he snapped hs fingers in plage of using the word, perhaps be- uso he was thinking of “hell's de- 1," for use a@ little later. ever infernal machine was set going when one of the reporters at phe a and well matched me to-day m king : “INE Tdaily reception asked him about the syocuiation ln the ring brisker than|t eres or George Moperoft trom a usual. The talent had a hard time of|oreehip in the ofllee ct Chet in 4t_ivcation winners, aad, everything | a z a sector Cortright to a similar office at the same salary in the office of Chief Clerk Kipp. “The transfer of George Hoperof sald the reporter, “seems a most un- brecedented—" Before he could finish, the Com- missioner whacked his fist down on the official desk and shouted: “Don't you criticize me. Nobody can come in here from outside and criticize BINGHAM BANGS HIS DESK AND LETS OUT CUSS WORDS —_—+ po —_ __ BEAT LONG SHOT |Don’t ‘Care a Tinker’s Dam’? for Critics and “‘Hell’s Deligat” He Says, ‘*I am Too Busy Small Matters,” me. I don’t care a tnker’s dam for any newspaper man. I'll throw out any man who comes in here to make a kick. I think I'm the most independent man who ever held this office.” Gen, Bingham was very red in the face now and he banged the desk three times by actual count befvre he went on. “The only nersons who can criticise me are the Mayor and the Governor, And they can have my'— Here he paused and snapped his “Nothing to say, sir. Nothing to say.” 1 DriveJohn Off The Alley * Jomes Smith SCHOLMATE WINS THIRD AT FAIR GROUNDS: Kickshaw, Second Choice in the Betting, Is Left at the Post. FAIR GROUNDS, NEW ORLEANS, March 1.—The card here to-day was very ordinary, being of the over night variety. A handicap at a mile and a sixteenth was the feature, The other races were good only a8 mediums of speculation. Angers before he ‘nished by roaring: | “Finer RACE-—Two-yeurolds; —matdens; ; oe “any time the wunt it, sir, three and a half furlongs vetting |e es Ins a me ol b fetting. | joine wo footballs, pune! he was asked the Uren alist of the | _ Starters oe” es hee and ‘a small cabinet of rubbing bringing up on charges to-day of fifteen rll doormen accused of not having cleaned go Uniments. vets are Mannesr Ma their station houses properly. ‘The early arrivals a) Me- “Hell delight,” yelled the General, 3 ylor, George Wiltse, “That's too small a matter for me to Graw, Luther Tay Pie GEE ween think about, I'm doing bigger work. Billy Gilbert, Christy Ma 5 T have no time for the Il lecte’ fellows." | | w “Hank Mathewsan, brother of the re- There was a painful nause, By the | M3 “Matty;"” Kennedy, Fitzgerald yctas, saked whether Inspector | Hidcrt, 109. nowbed Matty: . Schmittberger is trying to resign he | Reral lad. and Tuthill, had relapsed into” the formula. of | °° ‘Phe newspaper colony 1s also in camp. tte the front at the start running and won easily by ns from J. J, Jr.. who heat Midway a length in a drive. FOR HARRY TENNY’S DEATH Club Officials and Referee Included in Charge of Manslaughter After San Francisco Neil Won in BEATEN MAN IS TWICE IN Fight Which 14 Rounds. KNOCKED OUT FINAL PERIOD.. ‘Doctors Thought Boy Was Out of Danger After Being Restored to Consciousness—It is Said Now He Suffered from Epileptic Fits Before the Bout. ie SAN FRANCISCO, March 1—Harry Tenny, the bantam-weight fighter, who was knocked out in the fourteenth round iast night by Frankie Neii,, | died here to-day. Tenny was boaten really put out twice before the referee frightfully during the fight, and was finally declared Neil the winner. Tenny's death undoubtedly was the result of the beating he received in the ring. From the time he was carried from his corner last night, imp and all but Ifeless, at lifeloed) Tenny sank rapidly. GIANTS AT WORK ON PUSH BALL AT MEMPHIS New Third Baseman with Advance Guard Looks Like a Ball Player. BY BOZEMAN BULGER. (Special to The Evening World.) MEMPHIS, Tenn., March 1.—Happ: as larks and ready for another pennant- winning campaign, the advance guard | Glants are in Memphis, and) train ds bringing fresh recruits. The push-ball Is on the field Inflated, and this afternoon the fun began. Harry ‘Tuthill’s training outfit, in ad- of the every Kennedy {s @ new thin] baseman whom McGraw drafts from Rochester in the Eastern League, and ts said to be a Physiclans who remained at the bed- side realized his desperate condition and gave warning that death might be ex- pected if the fighter could not be re- suscitated within hort time, Some uneasiness was felt last night (oy promoters, seconds and others con- nected with the contest when the con- dition of Tenny after the knockout was noted. He went down before Nell's hard left hand blows during the fourteenth round falling near the cen- tre of the ring, ‘The timekeeper oount- ed him out but in the nolse of thé shouting Referee Roche did not hear the completion of the count and when Tenny staggered to his feet Roche, allowed ‘the fight to proceed. Referee Was Hooted, A howl of derision greeted the ref- eree's ruling, but f was soon ended, for Nell went at his opponent like a mad- ma, and bemmered him in his weak- ened condition against the ropes. Help* less und without strength to strike a bliw in return, Tenny dropped against the ropes, His head sank on his chest ‘m1 his arms dropped to his sides, In ix position Tenny was lterally beaten the floor by Neti, and was counted by the referee. He was carried to his dressing-ruom,s When he was revived an hour later he complained of pains in his body, which he ascribed to the terrific blows with which Nell had reached his stom- eh, Later the defeated man was re- moved to the bath-house, where he grew Worse unt!] death ened his suffering. Mark Shaughnessy attended Tenny at the bath. ‘The beaten pugilist com- Plained of terrible pains in his stomach and hy At 4 o'clock this morning he asleep and the physician left. saying all danger wus over. At 7,20 nck Shaughnessy was awakened by a cry from Tenng. The pugilist's body was doubled up in agony and a hurry out cull was sent in for the Central Emer- gency ambulance, Before {t arrived ‘Tenny was dend. Said He was Out of Danger. SB bet soe to be used next summer will be artif-|and and Dan Tradiey thick wonder. He is stockily built and looks | to send this girl to the electric cia) Natural ice will be costly not only| SECOND RACK. doves furlongs, Selling: flve and one-halt | er eT good man, Fitagerald, the new| After he was taken to hagas Dr. shair so that certain police offl-/ on account of the short supply, but be- « Batting. | catcher, wiso looks god, MeGinnity was summoi ‘¥en gers muy save their positions. cause of the long distance that much | Sibert welents, Jock Starters, weights und Jockeys. Fee ee Gib ialquarteréd ‘at’ the Claten- fon was very weak th? “In bringing out the truth we ghall/ of it must be brought this season for | Gable 107, W. Martin. bo cca a whieh ds sopduitienithy: cuapned to * ¥ stroi F spare no one, We shall put these police | Use 1b New ork. ane ice sosouners | Ormorinn, 109, D, ‘Austin, “5 Fe oe eee ee tetas (eee ere tnin ag ered. way she morn - irators on the spit until the truth | #sv@ lad such smal freueiiy from | MAY Duecan. 160, iv. & - i | mall from Red Elm Park, the training MoGimtlte proxigiatectdm out eh obias forth phere ta'c hucsan lite bean "v2 ports, hat ‘wieny OF them, at ave x. sot, 20 ‘ $| grounds, ‘The work to-day was very yido you fecl, Harry?” Siaui | ar 4 See 7| light and it will be a dav or two be- Vv asked. i Bi viske here, gentlemen, not the pos north as Bangor and } se ote al Boewoed 0b 15] fore the team gets down to business. ‘awitl sick., My Stomach “end | Bons of a few polleo officers, are installed the faming will “not be tol Esouicheon went to the front and,|‘The players are now amusing them. | head hurt awfully,’ answered Te ; pres majority of the panatl of iste felt, but in thousands ise 90% hotels % 4; Wealthy Physician a Sufferer from Facial | making all the running cs Maho was selves with the push bail, The rest of! Shortly afterward ho dropped asleep, Police Department ars honest men, but cos by a neck from Invin 5 ve | fem this summer, ne phiosoph Little Mac, d nll the way, y Was third, the team is expected in toknight. (Continued on Second Page.) | Martineau, Bilefer, Brueck and Lennon fh er Time eS second fn $ if enw sign? YY have an object in trying to sond this | ’rhings a nae all, ‘The poor| _Oratorian made | Neuralgia Took Mortal Dose of Morphine Pope Ace One mile and seventy | Smee 3) j girl to ber death, as we shall show. | Rav agp eal im winter and the rich in sume Anne t ad run : * 5 yanis; sellin Betting. ‘ ae M@hese men must answer to you, gentle- fe je front . in Apartments in Euclid Hall. Starters, Wipes 00) rT, 7 - Aye | men. The men who not only compelled from ta 100. Hay fae | this woman to yield to thelr passion but | i) place — nee ‘ @xacted tribute from her will be exposed 4 Pima) 7 A. 1 The agonies of faclal neurolgia drove rived. To Weston ne told all the ein fi na Her Life with Gerdron r, William A. Drake, a wealiny ed ee ees. with, the: death haw was left at 5 byalclai eee that he had been able to Weather from tole | “ “The District-Attorney told you, gen- 30 g tt «2 |phyatcin, "eo and nie it Harness declaed” Ses An nner waavat once | tonale, made the oA, running whey | ~ - . 2 Ries Memes, thet this Gerdron was & de- Metre Acrobat, 108, Bends 13 "hy ment which he occupied with his wife Drake wes venine years old,| held this order to the gtrotch, “where aie, ste cent sort o! fellow. We will show April Bowes: "iog. xosmner. 000°. iy | im fashlonable Euclid Hall, at Brosd- He was torn inthe Catekiils, where Wy | Sehookmace Yong from ‘Lena J., who | you what kind of a dosent fellow he horn Lao. 10s, 1G} way and Blghty-ffth street. He was fram ne Reomineat, Ho was graduated | cusily, by 3 lereth teeha i front of i. Se | 4 Royal Legon 4 ~~ | still alive when Mrs. Drake discov 7 i imei 1-5. ; | M7 - |¥or several years he was a medical ox:|F. Williams, ‘Time—148 1 A _ e, The Gleam Ben ieee nite Re RE hee pene Pe oe front ana what her husband had done, but he/aminer for life insurance ‘companies. | poURTH RACE—Hamdicap; milo and a Fifth—Garnish 5-2, Auditor 4-5 plac this girl was en years old an Legend and Freebooter. yee, held thig | tod despite the efforts of one of his; He endowed: a handsome income 4 { alxteanth. wading - employed as an embrolderer, one of omer to the strete, where Mreebooter | intimate friends, also a physiolan, who) this and from his practice, and lived |O etegurand jockers, SEE her companions introduced her to Ger- Pent to the front and won by a length | worked over him tor an hour. an U> torment him, The physiciee cea | Manan 8S, Moreland, i0 F ron. As the testimony has shown a yeu D TrOn Eye aapaecl, Who was a length! According to another statement, Dr. | hls wife had no ghildren.” “They were Botdsenteh 110, i Magcin: 4 ~ eS, ’ a big), fing "specimen i roont of Bellindian. ‘Time, 1274-5. | prake liad been using morphine for | devoted to. cach oth Monacr Maid, 4 Aubucho Al a ae an hi FOURTH RACE—G: . Drake bel a Blennenworth, . ne. 3 THAD dae hatined thls “ieelp {Brooklyn détectives are looking for| and 3 to 8) Mea ia But?o8| dome time in an effort to obtain reliet | stamonic bodies an me. ‘aeep Interest | Goldamith went the (front soon pol took to the thieves into the hom ince), Al tom f =n ndurable pains | t order He was the start and im Mae ees ee ee tom borne ot | ng. Ces Ana i ee | co la Setlictions cura tna Gableh ca crore li eonew of Theodore. Worth, the eRoreat | the atratah, where, Femy. J. eee SAYS PUSHCART PEDDLERS WERE BLACKMAILED. ! 10 sell herself for his evan- ee . nate, who tt fotel Ma- drive won by a ler - he brought per to New Yorktand| Kelle, at No. 148 South Oxtord street. ; dose in the night. Jeatle some months. ago. Bra was a length in front of Monaco her @ member, of the colony of|and tooted tt of allverware, pric-a-brac} THIRTY DROWNED IN Before daylight Dr. Drake arose and | “Apparently an effort was made to pre- |Syith aves {1 the. Merlot Ls in the Tent mite Mi wei i show you how thls decent low, Treated his slaves—how he beat er, Kicked her and spit upon her, When she was so Ill she could scarcely move he sent her out on the streets in pit Ld and forced her to bring eghe. will ate the stand genitemen weit bag OE etary, of her Ufo Ey been told bi Be’ Sourt ot “ta Wil, show that Gerdron, when be re to the home of ‘Berthe Giaiche on the night of the assault the | District-Attorney admits, Askea her how much money she hed’ Bhe told him she had $7, inaiding what Just recelved ‘from Joe Snzo. hen ‘we will show that this fe: @ent sort of a fellow said, ‘So you will ke ‘ovt.on me, will you?’ and struck t, knock.ng her to the floor, ‘Then he ‘drove hér to the street, clad only ee and ot! paintings worth over $1,000, The robbery occurred early last Monday, but the information was not given out epi ing. that ume aud daylight twok three men entered ae house by p: off a rear window. They” must have spond several hours nansacking the parior Noor, They made a clean sweep of the avaliable silverware, claured Han mantels Of amticles of virty and cut fea aT at paintings out ot tho diakngsroom.”, ne ago eeion! in the i effort a| killed himself at Albany Jan. 28 ea | WRECK OF SCHOONER, HAUGESUND, Norway, March 1. at, Brooklya Polico Headquarters until| Thirty men were drowned last night: tai te wig afternora, the Wreck, between Haugesund ang eeivaanen is an invalid, with Bergen, of the iglinone @0i Jn constant attendance. | steamer Thor. ee oty) adjaining hor husband's, On the | nant and 2 aac " m1 ne fing sa inatclaadp clad ried I ponjnd and she was a bowel ashore ghia ot Only. thi Phe, tnised purse did not retire untn| O"'Y ‘Pree of Her crew were saved. 8 o' Between Died as Her Sultor Did. PLATTSBURG, N. Y,, MARCH 1.— May Abare, aged nineteen years, the eweetheart of Ralph BE. Wilson, who last, pitclae, to-day by drinking id. Her mot is believed to eee ee eel oa ,|eame prostrated. went to his medicine case, so his widow ®ays. He then returned to bed. About 6 o'clock Mrs. Drake, alarmed by his unusually loud breathing, found him unconscious, Failing, after repeated efforts, to rouse him, she telephoned for Dr, Sinclair K. Royle, of No. 105 West Seventy-sixth street, who was a chum of her husband's, On his arrival at Buclid Hail Dr. Royle found Dr, Drake almost gone. He applied treatment, but the morphine had poisoned the victim's entire system and he could not be roused, When Dr, Royle told the wife that nephew of Theodore Worth, the xpreess Dr. Royle nosified the Coroners’ Office and then remained in the apartments «o look after the grict-strick: widow. He waa there when Coroner's Rhyaiclen 7 vent the facts from becoming public. Dr, Rovle declined to talk, Nor would ". Weston, the Coroner's physician, owt anv information, There was a stent report to the effect that Dr. Drake had left letters behind, but Dr. Royle denied this. The death was en- tered at the Coroner's office as a caso of suicide. ‘The police of the nearest statton, the Went Sixty-oighth street station, knew nohing of Drake's death until word was taken 3) nena by an Evening World re- porter this afternoon. pleclisiee tae YOUNG SAMPSON REAPPOINTED ANNAPOLIS, Md, March 1.—Ralph Earle Sampson, son of the late Rear- Admiral Sampson, ta-day re-entered the Naval Academy as a member of the Present fourth olass. Young Sompson was recen' higher in ly dropped from a ‘On account of deficiencies fh There, ls wothing to she Sect Hoawteail > APveInMOS oF Ih apache! be FIFTH RACE—Cousin Kate @ to 5 and 1 to 3) 1, Hocus Pocus (out for wlace) 2, Dr. Coffey. GATES PUTS MILLION IN HIS SON’S FIRM, ‘Tho firm of Charles G. Gates & Co., of the now, Trinity Bullding, Mo. iL dway, has grown snazing! Right, an shown by certiticate filed tn the County Clerk's office to-di ay The caftificate says that John Ww, Gazes, who, had. $1000 in the’ business ag a special partner, has put in $990 More, making bis Interest $1,000,000—the amount of his regular pet Ober special partners have also. ine creased their lutevests—John Lambert from $1,500 to Bis 000 ania rank i, Drake from $1.50) to $it ing how ie purpome paxtnens abe Salih Poe Before the Aldermanic Committee on Laws to-day Bresident Schwartz, of the Peddiers’ Association, charged ‘that pusheart seddiers had been blackmailed by the Street Clening Depart- nent, and also that th city authorities had ignored proof of thir ‘urnished last August. po DRIVEN FROM HOME BY FIRE; ONE BURNED. Ten families were driven from their homes and Nathan Sil~ aerman badly burned in a fire started by the explosion of'a can if henzine in the tailor shop. of ‘Vest One Hundied iid Thirtieth T shop. was gutted, ra Max . Silberman, at No. street late this afternoon. rem