The evening world. Newspaper, January 22, 1907, Page 1

“WEATHER— now) Wednesday fairy much colder. EIN [NAL] SULTS EDITION “ Circulation Books | Open. to. All.’ ze PLE NSD Ein oN fugu _PRICE ONBICENT. pecans HARRY TI the Hannigan ‘Case, Reads Balzac | and Hugo and Maps Out Plans for His Trial To-Morrow., INSANE IS VERDICT OF TOMBS —__ VISITORS-1N-THE- THAW" CASE: There.were fifty-six visitors to the Tombs .to-day—forty-seven wom- en and nine men—who had no connection with the Thaw case, Most of them-came-to-seotricnds o> relatives who are prisaners._A batlot of the! opinion of these persons upon Harry Thaw’s guilt or innocence and upon “Phls sanity was taken. It resulted as follows: Of the forty-seven women-twenty-seven voted -“insane;* twelve “not’ guiity’ and. nt gullry” = as Of the nine men. six voted ‘insane’ and three “gullty.” ~ der of Stanford White before Justice Fitzgerald. i final word in the selection of his twelve jurors and he will have an active “hand and -volce in the actual conduct of the case. q ¥. For weeks, so it became known to-day, Thaw has been reading the ~\ yei ord in the case of David Hannigan, acquitted of the murder of Solo- “-ghon Mann over eleven years ago. He has lightened his study of the and Victor Hugo, with a view, it is said, of gaining insight into character end emotion. al cnte- wae atieettp that ne then ete 4. former Judge Olcott as—his | #ifations—against cl because Olcott inaiated on | Siter's downfall plea of temporary “motional insanity @nd that he now Kladly weic suc! ‘a detenie when tt is suggested anow by lawyers of his own choosing. Walle VYudge Olcott was actively In charge of | Thaw's Interests he purchased from the the author until } watching a parade. (Continued on Second Page.) "| profligate life that eis to-morrow when he is Seat on trial for the mur- | He intends to have the | transcript of the proceedings of that trial by reading the works of Balzac $$ Tyo—of his law yers,—former—Assistant—District-Attorney— Howard ; 7 Gans, and ““Sack’tselin, -have-becn. coaching him tn-his. conning of the Hannigan record. eI ape tw -characteristic—of-Harry— Thaw's+2lthout—tood— and _weeping—frequently. Bemperament and of the lfe he led | over a newspaper pleture of the dead Yecoheonerermadeogny temon + of hie he saw Mann | smilingty caresalng two” youn women | ch | @* the three stood in a show-window It was alleged that the unexpected vision of the be- 7 NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, _ PRICE “ONE CENT. [AW PLANS TO CONDUCT OWN DEFENSE M'AVOY A ment: Would Go to Break D i FRANCIS M’AVUY, WHO WAS ELECTED RECORDER TO-DAY, + | the; Cae WIT Be The minaritys | made by Henry Clay Peters, the ae MOLL. ALDERMEN JOIN. | TAMMANY MEN AND ELECT, S RECORDER ‘Threat of Little Tim one Power of ‘Appoint- the Governor Helps” ead] ock, 1 Judge Francis F. McAvoy was elected Recorderthia afternoon, to succeed John | W. Gort, by a combination of the Dem- ocrats und Municipal Ownership Alder- men. The vote was 42 for McAvoy to 35 for James Cowden Meyers, the Re- —|publican-eandidate: It was a long, hard fight, with many Speeches and explanations, but Little Tim Bullivan brought the M. O, L. Al- dermen into lne with the threat that {the Board of Aldermen would be abol- Ished by the “Legislature and Gov. | Hughes would appoint a Recorder if the deadlock was not broken to-day. je Republicans had caucussed_for “candidate James Cowden Mey- «vs, and were prepared to throw the Appointment to the Governor by ad- journment and fallure to elect, but their scheme fell through by the break- ing of the deadlock. With the election of Judy the Democrats—secured—thr iWe- Board, and_hereatter_the Repudit- MoAvoy Petera Makes a Speech “Aside from “Little Tim", “Sullivan's successful appeal -to his colleagues, tha - Teaturi 3 i 1 Vi “hhetrs of the late Charles Brooke their heopy of the in—the—Hannigan Spears. —That-record-was turned over to “SS oThawe new mwyers by Judge Olcott ‘when he retired from thi case, < There ‘probably al few drama of ‘frais’ {oP the Nee or Beet F Olcott & Gruber in the reflection that ~~ Jtthelr discarded theory has been taken | *up at the eleventh hour and mado the} eplial-cohimni—of- Wie —eampaign—upost which Thaw must rely for dodging the * chatr, DIES IN AN” Gustav A, Meyers, Gea There) waa! no dlrect_recourse_to the Ferry-boat, __ A unwritten law" inthe Hannigan case. Bawls Hannigan's counsel put thelr main de- eer upon the clalrh that Hanni- Strange an-Was_made tnatantly-{nsane-by_the : dwight of ts dead sister's betrayer with “his arms about, two other gir He extra walt—tor Mann that-orening- ana} “wrt “ttt Cexdsin-Porty-seconasiteet, }} just off Firth aveniie, “The—proot of { premeditation. was plain enough, but in Sis charge to the Jury ‘Justice Ingra- “tham held that “if7at the time of the | :tommiasion of the erime he (tho defend- | laboring Under such « detect} STs I ive we (trerecce DoCWeeN FETT aNd WoT Tey ‘was guiltleas of crime." The jury acquitted Hannigan on the fpecond batlot: Upon his-own: initiative | deeperately iN inva Grove wtrest board: Abo trial Justices sint him to tha Asy-|ing-house. An amy hfah for the Criminal Insane at Mattea= + ferry—taK Whough alts actions —atee its arrest and during tho trial lad been ormal and conscious. Later he was! } released. ——Panmigan'a counsel oMeratl—evldenee; io show that after hls sister Loretta of an operation the “man had led “day and nicht, going often A.-Moyors,— Shit: Gegpmenred on ing his wife that, “6f the Second avenue “1, Twenty-third treat, four times previously. found-tr'this-ctty: Through tie publication of the story S| World Want G., in All Weathers! y Separate advertisements 9 nted Jast w eekt 3 : MORE than in the samo 2 1,98 The New York Herald, the only other New York morning week of Jast year! : ° ; newspaper printing paid wants, lost 118 advertisements ; from last year, and printed 3816 less than The World. sy In columns THE WORLD gained 57, The Herald 2644, ¥ —e—rr -} The World Is the First New York Newspaper! Who Left Overcoat in a Comes to: Death the —Galveston of” a mites Mtg eter este Friday after Christmas, after_inform- ; @s the last of hia $100,000 had been sunk in Wall street, he Would: leap frorit a ferry-boat, really @fed“at Hoon to-day on the uptown wta- at] When he’ disappeared hia wife tay --Meyera did not believe that her | hupband hud committed wstelde, for he | had thremtened=to-end—hin-jife-threaor+ He waa tator{ “L” STATION _ AFTER TALK OF SUICIDE ina Fashi DMererm's —disnpnenrance—n~terattire > Interented {n c 9 the ajor ope ately perforin to her case and had Post-Graduate Hos. ration was immedi- fave Mrs, Moyers's ody Dutt ed her. They had-be fatreet - Mra. Me | bard MIs Threat Db-thenipht-bef December hy had Jandlord for- mor ey } Sahl he didn't have the-moneyy and the next day sent a letter announcing his intention to commit sulcide. When an uptown traln—atopped= at Twenty-third street this ROO —on— tae} Second avenue Hne the train hands ear. Ned out a man, urconsclous and breath. ing heavily, Women guthered about him, one ot- | fering a bottle of smciling salts, The man died befors Dr, Ray could reach of Suicide. been asked—bs tho He disconsotately him from Lellevue Hospital. In the deud man's a letter addressed to 48 Grove street, bearing t ‘whe: pockets was found “G. A. Meyers, No. | and several papers address of Galveston, 2 Wats also an omelal, looklux Without postinark—or—ataimp, sled and uddresned to. # cil | ey Sharles ¥. Murphy, at He had 15 cents in hls pocket. ticket for & room: at they Mills F in Bleecker mireet, xo uot Friday s In his pat were the inltats “G, A, Lost Money on Copper. | Mrs, Caroling Moyers {s well conhect- ed in the South and is a woman of re- |fnement and culture. She inherited a | fortune which had t dissipated, j With the wreck of thélr fortunes he | plunged an “copper, and was wiped out in-the first hour of trading, Yesterday he waa at the hospital again fand-saw bis wife. Things had been fewne arranged between them, and wae ee cl that their future quia ror eect Tolused 10 aee-her | S-at_the-howpitat { Permpeareg—“nrt ot the Munictpal Ownership League Al- | dermen. Mr. Peters !s never brief and 4g always scathing. He denounced everybody who had anything to do with the passing of $6,000 in murked bills to Aldermen Clifford, and gave It out cold that he would put the District-Attorney out of businoss. “If the M.-O, L, men were for sale.” howled Alderman Peters, “why didn't they come to me? In the course of his. remarka Peters | tnade use of an epithet a0 foul thatthe Chalriiai” Gampened hin to” withdraw it. Other M. O. L. men defended them- selves aaginst the charge of being crooked in @ more or less imoassioned mannez, AMerman Kuntze announced | that ho would make Assistant District: Attorney Perkins anawer before the law. for the outrageous treatment’ which he (Kuntze) was accorded at-the Dis triet=, ZALoEn ey Bio 8 o eer raeana CORBETT AND XID ERMAN Fight Before Nevada Miners, (Spectal to The Evening World.) CHICAGO, M., Jan, 2—Kid Herman Fand Young Corbett slened-artictes: this } atternoon-for-a-finish—fght-tinder-Mar- | quis-of- Queensbury-rutea” tor the= beat purse offered and side bets of $5,000. | Both Tex Rickard. of Goldfield, and | Manager Riley, of Tonopah, have signi- | fed their willingness to b(d for the bat. Ue, and {t {a almost certain the latter will carry off the plum, Young Corbett has alrerdy $1,000 with Sam Rothschild to bind the match, and to atand as part of the $5,000 forfelt and side bet, and manager “for Herman, will cover this of the money, The managera of the men met in the office of a local nowspaper, and after preliminary discugsion on mattens per- tuning to the match hastily came to he “goriclusion, | Jos Gans. who! te, in Ohio, wax Immediately adv Rideiavexpaslosd eraniiel torChicenoeas once and take Cortett to Nevada and! begin training. . —_—$_.__—_—_ |REQUISITION FOR FLOWER HONORED. HARRISBURG, Pa. Jan, 22—Goy, Stuart: to-day honored the requisition [Bene Sets return to is jy ened Seeks = ARE MATCHED ‘Sign Articles for Finish: amount to-Hilght and also post the rest |” | | OWERS’ ROMANCE” WAS SCUTTLED O} AYA TING TRIP ee ae ’ tied Millionaire Has Unnapoiicss ~ Revealed, by Suit Over Fee for Getting Divorce for Rival; WIFE DRIVEN FROM __| HUSBAND'S YACHT BY WOMAN First Wife Killed Herself and Sree. Hides, Fearing Lunacy Proeceed- ar ings, It Is-Said. : - knowledged that her husband was the millionaire named by Lawyer~ Henry J. Hancock in the sensational sult he has just filed here against Mrs. Minnie L. Weis, a good-looking young matron of this city. After striving for months to keep from the world the fact that her domestic life had been wrecked, Mrs. Albert Edward Tower, the lonely — inmate of the great Tower mansion at Poughkeepsie, this afternoon ac- _ In-his-petition, which has been ‘laid before Justice Leventritt, Han- —}eock seeks to-collect 82 2, 500° Wnteth he-says, MIs. Weis- pucoauits for-his: : BRITISH ‘public the following cablegram: “The Hon. Elihu Root, State Secretary: 4 by the British Charge-of- Embassy; lately in Jamaica waters. (Continued on Second Page.) APOLOGIZE— SWETTENHAM SNUBS. OWN GOVERNMENT Governor of Jamaica Sends Cable of Thanks to) Washington, but Ignores London’s Demand for Explanation. | WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.—The State Department to-day made “Jamaica, Jan. 20. “Jamaica profoundly grateful to Your Excellency for expression of syinpatvy- ane for the vers: peactinal aid so kindly piven by Admiral Davia! and the entire particular service squadron of the United States Navy, “GOVERNOR.” | The cablegram. was. received in this city at 9 o'clock last night: [APOLOGY IN NOTE TO WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, Jan, 22.—The- State Department to-d {public the text of the note delivered to Acting Secretary. Bacon. yesterday Tris-as-fotlaw “British Embassy, Washy Jan. 24. aSirs—1-have-the honor-to-Inform: you, -under-instructions received |p yrrD: “RACE—Toy Bay (13 to 10 to-day from his Majesty's principa! Secretary of State for Poreign-Affairs, | nd that his Majesty's Government are causing official inquiries to be made as-to-the-authenticity of a letter which appeared in the public press this mitning, and purporting to be written: by the Governor of Jamaica: and j addressed to Admiral Davis, commanding ine United States squadron “Sir Edward Grey desires me to say that while he is so far depe-dent | poatea | 97 the press only for information with régard to this incident, he deeply | ® | regrets if the published text proves correct, that a British official should Nate pete have addressed such a letter to the gallant Admiral, who had rendered valuable assistance to British subjects at a time of great suffering and} new Bt) 000 bills. FAVORITE GETS. HOME FIRST Ik —OPEHING DASH Good- Card at the Fair Grounds Seemed_to Favor Yalent, Other and equally interesting velopments are following fast upai heela of Hancock's disclosure. > Mra, Wels, “Nina learly 2d {pent his leuit” had Miding “ou! until the Ho wax not at his offices all-day, Won't See Any Callers. = Ai Tastee: Wols,”* ‘and lett her room Msappoared. started, Tower Is entrenched in suite nt th Millionaires’ Club on Fits avenue, denying himsel€ to all caller: and in fear, according to one story that his wife may AdjadRe. “insane amt “locked up tn asylum: Tie_ts_belng advised by Be W. t the intrigue, ts at. Poughkeepsie, striv< - Ing vainly to Induce her fearsome elder- ly hus 1 to come there and Arrange | NEW ORLEANS RESULTS. |, er the tarms ata peacer- aS rae? | FIRST RACE—Gold | Proof oc) to fear ) +; Belle-Strome {5 to ut = and 3 to 5 yo madet Daring=2= } for place}; | { SECONO RACE=-Whisk Broom s [3 to 6 and’7 to 10) 1, Luts Foster <2: { {Fart King. w ating “contiati mn Mrs. Wels, the fas- We, wal a Eaeered eo details one wing of the ih KReStY the recent case of United: nator Platt and his_wtte, Whos: Tint dttrerencer- sprang trom ® prea. a private car. “In that phase i touches upon the efforts of to 1 for place) 2, Blue Lee 3 ‘ 1 to 2) 1, Prince Ahmed (8 to 5 ‘or place) 2, Ellemere 3 SB, Jan NEW ORLEANS, husband {t carries a slight savor de qr to a remarkable ¢ the betting ring. The and the track was fo PIRST RACE Tiree nuarter? | Startors, weigh i Goldprook, 100, Bes | Bette Brrome, (108 Daring, 100. New York papers to-day connecting her t a mile "Bt rt Nemere, Halbard, 109, rs, Lowe... MUALan M by Goldproof; Belle Strome Kec- Durning third NP RACE Won ond jon seta ae Won by Toy h : Prince Ahmed) see Three and one-half Cur-| ong: Kita HIGGINS SLOWLY SINKING, DOCTOR SAYS. Hibbard OLEAN, N. ¥.,-Jan.2—Dr, Coast line vi relative to the condition of former Gov. ]3 DEAD, 2 MISSING. - IN RAILROAD WRECK. |: CHARLESTON, 8, C., J taxay gave out the ¢ollowing statement] result of the wrecking of the Atinnti: tibuled train last night | Met | SWETTE i NEW: VOKK BOARD: Ja~ As the to « cablegram Swettenham, 1 Relief Com- eo Wishay 0 Dennison Tnusband, Tak Weis, a rich Seinen Ker in order (hat she iight ber” + free to-marry-Albert-Edward Tower_as soon_as he could succeed in rid: oT ing himself of-his-wife,who as. May Bogardus was known as the “h | tiful telephone girl of Poughkeepsie.” | Incidentally Hancock allegedthat to his Knowledge. the valthy: lover of Mrs. Weis had-given-her-in-the—past-few—menths-eash-presents- amounting to nearly $70,000, including < one Christmas gift of seen who has been living recently ati the Hotel Belmont under the name of auddoniyreattzing whats vem 4s cannily? atmosphere clears: his sumptuous! seek to haye ‘him; Santana yar ths card of sx races wan down f¢ certajn essentials of the famous [here to-day. Favorites soomi Dodge-Morse- divorce scandal; Sige [the call In the majority f Pleads ‘for His -Return; f but one can “ner sr 8 Sir Ti learned Jate inst night here. TH Mtr x ate in will do down bl that articles were to, be printed inthe | supply of food | Higeins: near Yemassoe three are known to be | Tltter did, 1 Gores “Noticeable but not tharked lowering | dead, two aro missing and seven ine | Pim ie Poster ae eS ae of vitality. He js @radually. sinking.|Jured. Among the missing and sup- |." "Bide Lien, third. hale Tee only ate Pulse more uncertain; respiration Iittle| posed to have been burned to death is more hurried.”’ a Cuban who box care and otha ast neh the som dition, of the peed was a passon| two _Pullmans THIRD RACKE—Five-cighths of a,'mile, eee Pree {ovis faformation the eam. that for the time balag, Ten re de- mitte Batters, weights, jockeys 08. Pitas. nothing | Mrs. Tower, the mont pathetic figure of ~ Wels to get a legal quittance of © 4 | i | | | i j