The evening world. Newspaper, March 8, 1906, Page 1

als Eko I_RESULTS EDITION. |. PRICE ONE CENT. “ Ci ulation Books Open to All.’ ~ Ne “ Circulation Books Open. to AML” | RESULTS EDITION NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MARCH &, 1906. PRICE ONE CENT. INDICTED INSURANCE MEN ARE HELD IN $12,500. BAIL ” CLAICHE CIAL’ CONFESSION CF POLICE GRAFT Says Members of Force Shield Vice and Share Its Proceeds. ‘AIDED MEN IN ROBBERY. Exposes Methods of Blackmail | and Gives Names, Dates and Other Details. be, The Evening World presents herewith the substance of the confession made to the District-Attorney by Berthe ‘Claiohe iny Thirtieth and West Forty-seventh street stations. As yet the revelations are in outline form. Each statement of the girl, as confirmed, opens up a new path into the long-standing police corruption in the Tenderloin. Berthe Claiche's confession shows the unfortunates who eke out their exist- ence in the old and new Tenderloins suffer not only from the unavoidable consequences of thelr mode of fife, but from two forms of oppression particu- larly brutal, They are crushed between the demands of the men with whom! they Uve and whom they support and | the demands of grafting policemen, who may, without exaggeration, be called assistant foremen in the factory of sin stretching from Fourteenth street north to Fifty-ninth street and ranging vari- ously from Broadway, Methods of Grafters. ‘The most Important of the accusa- tions made by, Berthe Claiche are in- corporated in the following specifica- ons. She swears that certain police- men, whan she names, have made a ‘Dusiness ef: Collect tribute a regular zanging from $2 a week up from all women plying their trade on the street: is with women of their carmings, Picking out dranken men uiding them to places where wht be robbed by women # for the purpose, tub on women and hold- percentage of they made mor money thin Implicates Four Men. Bertlie Claiche has ‘mplicated four policemen. Three of them, swears, collected money from her at regular Intervals, The other never took a cent of her money, but exacted tribute in another way, It is reported that the girl completely clears Policeman Mar- tineau, who was the most vindictive witness against her, In so far 4s per- gona) dealings with him are concerned, Bhe did not know him, at all. Berthe Claiche hag confessed who ought the revolver with which she killed Gendron, Villie’’ Lorenzo, in whose company she was found by Gen- dron just before he gave her the final ‘beating In her career with him, pur- chased the weapon with money given hhim by the girl, The purchase was (Continued on Second Page.) ae ea eed CRAG WADSWORTH SECOND IN HUNT RWIC Ene. March 8.—Crale woth, sevond Secrotary of the éuncrican Embaasy, just missed winning . the rich National Hunt Steeplechase, Valued at #,00) end run here to-dhy. Mia Por@ight 1 made a game race, but wnlye secure! second place, being a fted by an outsider, Count Rutus. Mex ‘Piers were ‘twenty-eight starters all ridden by amateurs over dimcult, nat- tral yountry. © aalles ‘The distance was four ‘the mrnigers of the race pre- for trovdle by engaging four hut no seriuuis accidents oc- ‘Thy Winner started at 2% to 1 againyt. Porilizht 11 was 100 to 8 ugainat, ——— 21 DEAD IN AVALANCHE Islands ng policemen of the West | W. W. ASTOR, JR,, TO WED GIBSON ~— GIRLS SISTER Engagement Announced by Family of Mrs. Shaw in Richmond. |WAS A MISS LANGHORNE. | Her First Husband, Robert Gould Shaw, 2nd, was | Divorced by Her. RICHMOND, Va., March 8—It is an- | nounced here to-day by one of her jfamily that Mrs. Robert Bhaw, nee |Langhorne, sister of Mrs, Charles Dana Giteon, is engaged to be married to William Waldorf Astor, son of Willlam Waldorf Astor, of London. | Nannie Langhorne Shaw, as she has| signed her name since she divorced Robert Gould Shaw 2d. three years ago, fs about twenty-elght years old, be: titul, witty and a type of the American out-door woman of society. One of her |aisters is married to Reginald Brooks, Janother to Charles Dana Gibson and still another to Moncure Perkins of Richmond, Va. Mrs, Shaw comes from the Lang- horne family of Virginia, an anafeut but poverty-stricken family, renowned for the beauty %f its daughters. The girls al married well, but Nannie, the second daughter, captured Bobbie, Shaw, of the Massachusetts Shaws. & descendant of the Puritans. They were married on October 11. 1897, at the Langhorne place in Albemarle County. Va., and after a tour abroad settled down in Boston, Mrs. Shaw could not abide Boston. Her husband, | although of Puritan ancestry, was noth- ing resembling a Puritan in his ac- tions. Quarrels were frequent while yet the matrlage was young, and after a a semblance of even friendship. Mrs. Shaw divorced her husband at Chai lottesville, Va., on Feb. 4, 193, keeping the possession of their two children. Two days later “Bobble” Shaw married Mra, Mary Converse, widow of C. H. Converse. of Newton, Mass. While Mrs, Shaw was Mir from agree- able to society In Boston, because of | her caustic comments upon Boston pev- | ple and Boston ways, she wes immense- ly popufir with the hunting set of this city and Long Island. As a, parcicipal ina match at reirtee, Mrs. ing yolce, and cm say more in a few words than the average woman coud an hone WES ia one of the best cross-country rs in society and plays polo lke a) %) Hees en to riding astride. Mrs. John ‘and the Inner doors of the select social circle of New York are open to her, Since her divorce she has lived much abroad and has been presented at court, Of vourse a widow so young and 0 {pretty and so vivacious as Mrs, Shaw jhas had a multitude of sui.ors. She |oas been reported as engaged to Rob- ert Goelet, whose fortune 1s estimated ‘ut $40,000,000, and to Lord Revelstoke. \‘Phe report of her engagement to young | Astor, coming from Richmond, 1s oon- sidered final. GEM SHE HID IN Mrs, Charles A. Gilchrist, wife of Dr, Charles A. Gilchrist. of No, 916 Hudson street, Hoboken, wilf be careful here- after Where she hides her jewels. On Thursday 1ight last Mrs. Gilchrist attended @ svcial fuaciion, and when she returned home took off a diamond sunburst and placed st in a slioe of one ot her vhildren, A couple of days later the child :ovk the snoes to the repair shop of rank Niglicco, at No. 159 Ninth street, totally unconscious that one of then, contained his mother's diamond sunburst. On Tuesday a man entered the jew- elry store of Coeriee frome. ik io, Pied MW erannted street, ar diamond euburst heb he had in ii moked: the jewel was wort! ad the emits put it in his pocket and left Wise store, entirely sat asad, head parted as the man | day. { ders, and the shines. She has a singulurly penetrat- and 4 hult Micionae? Helmuth, Jacob Astor Is one of her dearest friends Bigckicck, King’ Gora BOY'S SHOE GONE == yards; sell GIANTS TAKE UP COLLEGE TEAM TACTICS. A despatch to The Evening World from Memphis says that the National League champions have abandoned the pushball and are now | being trained by McGraw along the lines adopted in the colleges. This is McEvoy’s idea of how it will be done. with Tiree On Bases And Waener Up ,W You Do ? Mee How To Be A Ball Player ‘i ft ae a i MARTIN LANDS SHENANDOAH HOME IN FRONT few years the young couple kept up only| This a Day for Mud Trav- ellers at the Fair Ground Track. FAIR GROUNDS, NEW March 8.—Ordinary flelds, were carded here to: rletly a day for mud most of the play. three FIRST RACE iden two-year-olde; ing. He ters, welhin anil sockeye. U4, Livingston “Robolna. ‘oa. : 107, Noone . G2 ay, 113, J uesn, 4 Time—0ds 18, + Beatrice H. made all won cleverly by a lengih from Hel- . Lakes “ > muth, who lasted Jong eaouga to beat | | Won by Tadellns. tda teerney was Wabash Queen for the meron AnH Pee y poema see SHCOND (RACE—-Sle fuctong mARCOND RACE—One and ane-elghth Starters, wolchte and Jockeys. dem, vi. 1 obbin Attrastto Pirate's Dance, in, Delmore, Alexi Gotowin ma: the runni stretch, followed by King’ Moni: In the stretch Kings Gem closed, and in a@ drive won by a length for the place. Time—1,19, THIRD RACE—One mile and ing. ppbtartces, weinltn and fookese Since Helle, 84. Moreland. . 08, Noone. 02, Hyacinth, 115, Aubuchon Lemon, Gtx, Wont by was second and Winifred A, thia, ‘OURTDH RACE—Polly Prim gnd even) 1,, Usury (7 to 10 tor place jem M.0. GETS SETBACK IN THE ASSEMBLY. (Special to The Eventi villa of the Mual- ORLEANS, ! well enough | matched to make the talent puzzle long card ther the running and ; Betting. | ir. Pl twenty }Ieneth In front of Bradlev's | AND THEN VANISHED. hat would inwity 2 Strike the Dutthman Out ‘Tel Howyoud Male A Homer, DOnlin “Doni ine Sock the Ball “Fence And Beatir overthe be How Woutd-you Stop Aliner , Dahkn> Dahlen, with a aural Basket Gee Bul Youse A Bum Bunch - NaI Ut f seacher Johnny ST, JOSEPH WON FROM CnidIct AT CITY PARK Monterey, Favorite in Six- Furlong Dash, Gets Place Money. PARK, NEW ORLEANS, Mudders make up the entire to-day. There isn’t one race carded that might be a feature. The - | nalds, however, are well balanced and winners are hard to pick. FIRST RACE—beliing: five and one-halt furlongs. cITY March Betting. Str. Pi 15 Startors, weights and Joc! J. Hi Tadelias, ‘102, 6 Ida ie 4 Misa Jontan, t 4 3 8-5 4 HI RT 2] te 5 ting. Startera, welahte and Jockoxe. roe? 2. BEBae a 2 castes const Dazzle went to the front, made all the running and won easily by Wm lengths from Fox Hurting, who was my re THIRD RACE—Six furlongs, fees) Lis, A Miah Larson. 110, B Jowophi, TOOK HER BANKBOOK Mrs. Mabel Apgar, a woman of twen: ty-four, has dsappeared from her home, No, 431 West Fifty-eighth street. fer husband, Harry Apgar, has called in Whe police and private detectives to bis in for her. Apgar left her home at halt baat fight o'clock last nti fh , THAT BURIED HUTS. Mo apres ais gt poe faa aa mance mths sunb urat christ. Mra, and ‘Joe on Sie Gilchri ony the oat her jewel bot are then "tavoriiant: shoes and clpal Ownership people for a direct and tmmediate recount of the ballots cast in the last election in New York, by|V' putting the question up to the Attorney- General, was in the Assembly to-day by a Vote of 56 ayes to 20 noes, The resolution calls on the Attornéy- General to inform the Legislature whether he bas nuthority under the ick coat, a long os stole, Dimck ‘cheviot skirt, Bown, vel- ond "aoting: . had with ‘her book of ‘tie poeta Say- own nad is five feet “ave gird “nat McGraw Warms Up the Pitchers with Medicine Ball Before They Twirl. BY T. G. SCARBOROUGH. MEMPHIS, Tenn., March 8.—Wet grounds prevented the forenoon practive ‘it the Giants to-day, but shortly after noon Manager McGraw ted his athletes to Red Elm Park and resurrected tho big push ball, Medicine balls were also used by some of the men, More than a score of veterans and re- cruits tugged and pushed around in the mud with shoulders to the bie sphere. Sides were chosen Donlin leading one wnd MeGraw the other. Goals fifty feat apart were selected, but befire tho game ended the goals were shortened half the distance. 'The exercise was cal- culated to do much good in tho absence of any base running or batting. Muthewson and Marshall Fitsgerald and Ferguson, in size a real eiant bat- tery; Ames and Bresnahan and Taylor, Wiitse and Bowerman paired off In bat- terles, limbering ub as much as possible on the muddy field. The medicine balls were elven to the pitchers before MvGraw would permit vhem tom warm un.” ‘They were tossed from one to another, and Dr, Marshal) | voted lipsredtt exercise, There were no new arrivals to-day, but a telegram was received from George Browne Unat he was en route from California, Sam Mertes may be with him, although he has not been heard from. Sammy Strane has writ- ten, begging to be allowed to remain in Chattanooga and train alone, He says severa) minor leaguers are training at his home and that he Is just now engaged in a business that neetis his attention, McGraw refused to grant the request and ordered him to report at once. BOURKE COCKRAN HAS RAP AT “TOWN TOPICS.” Asks Whether the Government Will Continue to Assist in Its Publication. WASHINGTON, March §.—Represent- ative Bourke Cockran, New York, in- troduced \ résdlution to-day requesting the Postmaster-General to repom to the House whether “Town Topics" is ad- mitted to the mails, He also asks whoiher the Government will continve to assist the publication of “Town Topics’ In “its od occur tion of extorting mommy by blackmail. STEAMER IN DIS TRESS SENDS UP SIGNALS. SANTA BARBARA, Cal., March &— (Novn).—A steamer, evatently a passen- ger vessel, js sending up distress signals| md fifteen eniles off shore, It ia thought she may be the Santa awh it here yectnuouss at with passengers GIANTS’ BATTERIES WORK: HIGHLANDERS ON WET SOD Griffith’s Men, Out Early, President — MUTUAL RESERVE OFFICIALS ACCUSED OF GRAND LARCENY Burnham and Two Others Arraigned—Grand Jury to Go After “Big Three” Companies. ‘Three officers of the Mutual Reserve Insurance .Compeny - ihn. esse indi@ted to-day for grand larceny and forgery were brought into | O’Sullivan’s part of General Sessions this afternoon ;and arraigned at-the | bar. The indicted officers are Frederick A- Burnham, president; George Burnham, jr., rst vice-president «nd counsel, and George Bldridge, second vice-president. There are fiv indictments against each man, two charg- ing larceny and three charging forgery. The three men pleaded not guilty, with leave to enter a formal plea a week from to-day. Mr. Jerome askd that bail be fixed at $3,000 for each of the fifteen indictments, or $45,000 in all. This wes objected to by Former Assistant-District-Attorney Rand, counsel for the defendants. The Court comprorijsed by making the bed) $2,500 for each bill, or $12,500 for each man. Richard Deeves, the millionaire builder, of No, 305 Broadway, furnished the required bonds. The charges against the Mutual Reserve offers grew out of the testi- mony of James D. Wells, taken at the Armstrong Committee's investiga- tion, He alleged that certain officers of the company paid judgments against them personally out of the funds of the company. Take Most of Practice in the Outfield. BY BOZEMAN BULGER. (Speclal o The Evening World.) | BIRMINGHAM, Ala, March &— De- [spite the damp and sozgy aod, Clarke GriMth had his Highlandirs on the field early to-day, and thyugh little was done, he {3 pleased to huve at last had a start. The diamond was enUrely too wet for practicg and all the work was done in th» outfield, Chesebro worked | hard for an hour and quit in a dripping | perspiration, Big Jack, inventor of the spit-ball, does not proj/se to suirt an- other season in bad eynditton, Next to him young Leroy, the Indien twirler, was the hardest lmborer, La Imy ts a full-blooded Chipnewa, and Griff believes he Is the goods. If New York fans will, remember, he pitched one game against Chicego last year on Washington Heights und won it, tLe hay an abundance of speed and the sto- Ndity natural to his race. He newe quits. In the short practice American Association catcher, also showed up tn good style, He is a six- footer and With ule exception of Al Orth Is the vlegest man on the team. ‘The Higalanders will play a game with the Birmingham Club ‘Saturday | and that will be the first real ball game of the season condition Duc Newton and Leroy will pitch for the Highlanders while fMhomas and pernaps McGuire will do ‘Thomas, the On account of being | #irance Department, The alleged irregularities out of which grew the indictments Included: Fictitious payments of renewal and commuted ‘commissions in sworn reports to the insurance departments. That when serious charges were made agalnat the oMocers of the company they FREDERICK A. BURNHAM. made large payments out of the com- pany's funds rather than defend charges against their management. ‘Phat roprased over-statements of as- sets were made In sworn reports to the Insurance Department and in circulars sent to the pubsic, ‘That they made overstatements of in- 'surartce in force In reports to the In- improperly Imnor- ing Heng on policies, ‘That they placed Hens on policies and the catching. CRUSHED TO DEATH BY TRUCK HE WAS DRIVING. Fell from It and Heavy Wheels Passed Over His Body, Killing Him Instantly, While driving from the Twenty-third street ferry, Thomas Fennell, of Ho-| boken, was run over and Instantly kdlied at Eleventh avenue and ‘Twenty- third street, He was thrown from his aruck and fell in frome of the wheel, which, passed over him, crushing out his The dead mun was forty-six years old and Hved at No, 402 Grand street, Hoboken. GREEN NOT GUILTY OF POSTAL FRAUDS. WASHINGTON, March §.—Ex-Senator Green, of Binghamton, N, ¥.. was this afternoon declared not gullty of con- apiracy in connection With the sale of tme-locks to the Post-offce Depart- ment. ‘The trial was begun on Feb, 20 before Justice Ashley M. Gould in Criminal Court No. 1, of tthe Distriat Supreme Court, with United States District At- pags ence ene . Holmes Gen. Gotendunt was ae ee ind es v8 Ate iid Gaal care by counsel called them assets in sworn reports to the Insurance Department. when thev were not assets. That Pres'dent Burnham received pay» ment of commissions under contracts formerly made by President Harper for 4 contingent fund. A The February Grand Jury invest gated these charges, but found no fn- dictments, it being understood thag their Inquiry was only preliminary. Three of the officers of the Mutual Be serve were allowed to go before last month’s body and explain the transac tions involved in the charges, Thay were not called before the present Gmna Jury. Ready for Big Three. With the Mutual Reserve charges out of the way, the Grand Jury will now take up the Armstrong committes's testimony in Its relation to the New York B.lfe Insurance Company, Equitable and the Mutual, The yellow dog funds will be the ob- ject of @ special inquiry, and kt is be- lieved that “Judge” Andrew Hamilton will be subpoenaed by the grand jurdrs to testify, as will many officers and employees of all the big companies, To Take Up Big Three. After Foreman Van Valkenbungh,. of the Grand Jury, had’ handed up the batch of insurance indictments te Jurge O'Sullivan the Court said: “The Court “hae’‘ been considering somewhat the questions contained ‘in the presentment you filed with-me: on Tueaday last. The progress you are making in the work you have in bang El [RACING * *® ‘ LATE RESULTS AT FAIR GROUNDS, Fifth—Dan MoKenna 6-5, Sarsaparilla.2-1 place, Owasca a AT CITY PARK. Fourth—Daring 9-2, Creel 8-5 place, Delphie. Fifth—Gold Coin 9 Goldie out place, Ann Hill. 0 ——_——--— COMM: SSIONERS MAY INVESTIGATE N. Y. CITY RAILWAY, ALBANY, March 8.—Late this afternoon Attorney-General Aayer rend3ved an opinion affirming the right of the Board of vay Commissioners to investigate the New York City Rail- way Company under the Railroad law. The investigation is isked for by Judson B, Wall, a lawyer, of New. Y: Mt ie namsten further stated that his department will ren J 2 ‘ ' } q 4 4