The evening world. Newspaper, January 26, 1907, Page 1

RESULTS ED ITION..J “ Circulation Books Open to AUl.”” “ Circulation Books Open to All.” PRICE ONE CENT. NEW YORK, "SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 1907. RICE ONE CENT. — CENT. _ Protest to Conried that -~ Objectionable and Detrimental ‘to Their ‘Interests. Holders: Were. Lined} . Up Against New--- Says. ~—Propped-p-in-bed on pillow: Heinrich Conried, although 11 flammation of the nerves and faltly palpitating: with Teutonic nient, 15 holding -a~ conference this atfernoon with some of his million- aire associates in the Metropolitan conference: the excite- Opera Comipahy—a apshot of which will possible mean the extinction of Richard Struass’s Salome” LE sensational music drama F trom the local stage.- Tho hurried gathering in Herr Conrled's house at No. 65 West Seyventy-first street foliowed close upon the heels, of a protest which che Metropolitan Opera and+ Realiy Sompany.owners of the opera-house, —_had-made a _Iittle earlier In the day The protest wax embodied in the fol- lowing letter which Frank N. Dodd, “pecretary of the directors of the tealty —company, delivered person- ~ally to the Herr Direcktor: “Wetaricn Conried, Esa. “Dear Sis The dire: Opera-Houre Metropolitan » Renl Estate Company consider that the performance of. “Salome” io @bjectionable and detrimental to the beat interests of the Metropoll- tan Opera-House. They therefore protest against any repetition of} thig opera. (figned) By order _FRANK_N. DOND, Secretary. Summoned to Conried’s Bedelde. # ‘onried Nad eat} bent Algor inatands the telephone which fairly humping. itaclf. swith all the members of the € Metropolitan Opera Company who in town and arked them to be at his home at 5 o'clock. Among _those whom 18 He got in touch | ted Clarence Mackay. Robe Goelet, Otto Kahn, Henry R. Winthrop, of-the Equitable: Harry Payne Whit- ney;- Oeorge— Gould; — Billo —Gresory “Charles Gimther and Rawlings Cottinet These men. fellow-directors with Ci qed In the opera company, were already Henry Smith, and: {t seemed probable that maining performances, having beon givet_ last Tuesday. Men of equal or greater prominence age aligned, however, on the side.of the Amohg We mon who own’ SPRRY And whe ‘OPERA-HOUGE rm “OALOME” the Music Drama Is| Looks As If Old Box-| [ing Mra, Silverman, who ta young and feor-ne fevoring= the production vot} AUAMUaDEA, |“ know perfectly well wi _| me," Dr. Townsend told There ts _no-noed of aucrificiug still | FAG INGIGT DOCTOR V STRANGE ‘ Charles Wilmot Townsend at-330 A: Westervelt-avd ta = Spler was shot to death In his hase... syhich is onty 9 stone's throw trom-that ot-Dr-—Townsend.-The-Coroner's fury returned a verdict that Spler had oom- initicd suicide, but .the police haye al- ways maintained he was the victim of an enemy. Han a Handsome Wife; Sliverman— stQuuy—-déales — that he knows anything’ about the shooting of Dr. Townsend. @utathe. der” thes impresaton” "tenet grudws-againat.thaphyatelan,. ‘They. fay that Dr. Townsend’ Nas-been treat- autiful, for several ‘months. The prisoner waa taken to the Smith Infirmary by the detectives.and usherea Into the room occupied by the wounded man, In a mament of semt-conactous- ness Dr, Townsend sald 6ilverman looked somewhat like the man who had shot him! but he did not care to make the {dentification positive. Mrs, Towrl+ zend—nald the prisoner -was—diatinctl? ike the man she had ween at the #ldej~ Of their bed and thought the scarf he wore around his neck might -heve bean what-she took. fora handkerchlet which the mysterious man wore as a mask for the lower part of his-faci Dr. Townsend at firat etoutly main- tained to the police and Coroner Cahill, of the Borough pf ‘Richmond, that thh/ by -burslar,_who_ehot_him mane. started to get out of bed. But fnaliy admitted at the Smith Infirm-} ‘ary;—where he was -taken-in=x ‘motor cah shortly after the tragedy. that . the atiootlic Bad nor been hie vy a Durglar, but by a man of ab- ¢ chmlttherwer aud Corse: ‘unt Fahall not tell you hin mame: 1 don't want this man arrested. It Would —aerve “we” Food“ purpoue, ¢ another Mfe.” Immodiately after making this amaz ing statement Dr. Townsend lapsed tnto “unconsciousness. from which—the qocntinuse -on_Second- eae » /bers of the Le © questions which the members {eo The Senator's reasons far tbs ~ sublio matters.” wt j stitvents. ih OFFIC S __ WASHINGTON: the President. page nd thereat without trialdin suck cases., DRYGEN WOULD PLEAD BEFORE CEGISCATORS poy WASHINGTON. Jan. 26,—Senator Dryden, of New-lersey ea to-day addressed a letter to the Republican leaders and meme wwe, ature who refused to abide: by the sauous action. requesting that a meeting be arranged at Trenton:a which he may appear to state his claims and toranswer any ‘ undorstand that certaini Republican members feel that they sannot vote for me and comply with the wishes of their con | believe that the opposition is based upon a misay # prehension of ty record-as-a—Senaor._and my. Poa ON uno { WwHo ROUSED ROGSEVELT’S IRE RESIGNS, Jan. 26.—Tho resignation of Paymaste. Géorge M.-Lukesh, United States Navy, has been accepted b This officer was court-martialed about a yeal dequacy-cfthe sentence this ease ted the P + dent to make representatioin to Congress in a special messaq urging that he be clathes with. my wish to have answered, ry asking a hearing are “becaust! » ‘ 84 ‘authority to dismiss an office wna th te 5) ay 4 for pace) 2, Dapyle Gola 3, iwas Ee ‘een B. ptert. a Me What Secretary Dodd | Charles. W. Townsend, inion Islandi? Physician, Shot Down In. His Own Home By a Mysterious Intruder —At3 A.M. ——— Moses Silverman, a-hack driver-employed by a‘ livery stable in New Brighton, 'was arrested this afternoon by Inspector Schmittberger on sus picion_that_he was the mysterious man who mortally wounded Dr.” to-day-in-his-home-at-No- The shooting sn: Dr. Townsend, who i is one of the leading physicians Fot Staten Istand, has developed into;a-mystery as deep-as that surround=| ing the killing of Charles L. Spier, financial secretary to Henry H. Rogers, the Standard Oil Magnate, one ne hlgnt last Apr LOY NAVARRE BEATS QUT LONG: SHOT-BY NECK at New Dargini the Favorite Runs Unplaced in Third Orleans. NEW. ORLEANS 3 RESULTS. FIST RACE tady Ci Carol_(7 to 2} PEF Jack Il; (8 to SECOND RACE—E, My Fry (7 to; 5 and—4 to 2) 1, Mont I bert (4 to4 : ores —place)—2; THIRD RACE—Lady tot, and 5 to 1) 1 {6 1 for place) 2, Blackburn 3. NEW ORLEANS, Ja boats’ Hy Facking good Wan lncking,- aa Fier flarters, ses eps a and abet lon. Ls. tho place. 10 nd I e3 Bila burn ‘made the runnin aa followed. by “nsloy S tthe 0 atret "trons Sei eae chk the latter ain -| ot, Navarre, ‘oe th jase. place, Be Oh 10. Jan, 26. Ao at the Fair Grounds to. a howed a fatrly matched Held” “prt Jug iermearryh cat pounds “and Ato: 22 pounds, fwiches—tn—xt rtpoy: the lightwaig! ‘The others were san weights at promised a ere Intereatin through they every race. inthe pieces tt the. best. Ossentke went to the front at’ start and made the running, Yotlowea he Dapple Gold and Happy Jacl siretch Dapple Gold took the lea ita 6 run home who won by roma by Lady Tap halt tena” a length’ 1L, who beat Dapple Gold halt mite, M. Fry traced to the front a Pade all the” ie, front at the paally bya length tror waa second all the gmourn to bea and a Jockeys, and Navarre (12 » Grace George (6+ —The Mer Andicap was_the-ypynt-ery ¥. Juat | hale turto ‘on neck from beat Blackburn a a= of Evelyn Nesbit Thaw __ in Court by C. Allan Gilbert saansaciasensctaanpaeieheaee 44 a 2Oh4 ri | | | peeeeen pyetverrytryrtveriere ys with’ 8) AM = 3 Clas: “EW BATTLE SHE CONNECTICUT TAS: BAD RENT NULL Seriously Damaged When}, She--Ran Ashore, Is. Latest Report. e Gold | PIPSVISISIIESSIERS .| CATHOLICS TO. 00 GREAT MASS-MEETING. Gather at at Hippodrome’, To-: Morrow to Protest at French Spoilation of Church. AAA Tied aM Aad adda hind hded ell HIGGINS STEADILY APPROACHING DEATH: {adie | Higgins Dongs 0 NOL fas off. +5, on In-all- the Catholle churches ofthe fithe past ew aa an Greater City there will be read to-mors | by row @ note {rom, Archbishop Farley tn- | NO Porto Rico, Vling all Catholics to.attend the bin | Ot infonmat public meeting at’ the Hippodrom: Tnorrow night to protest againat epollation. Admission will be free and no Uckets will be required, The cleray are Invited |tgeq to to océupy seats on the plattor ees ante a Former, Justice O'Brien will, prenide, | Ont THe | and the principal: addresses: will other ra 5 be by John Cc, Agar, former ST, PAUL DUE “To. MORROW. is Corporation | | Counsel John J, Delany, former Junticn James Fitzgerald and Archbishop -Far- ley. —_—————— than he beginnln 1s of coment were ahtn'n leaky ty 4 ampton and Chi was in cammun. mln ahy miles ¢ re |:the aeetdent, the roan Sunday, Werld) Wante Work Iehiship at 9 A eday. ‘The vewset| which ta not known. ‘Ti Monday Morning pyyenderey ely dock avout 89 ACM. Bun-| Connecticut refuse to cla | [tere MDX-UP OVER RECORD HALL BE SHE VF. OF THAW JUROR HARN ICTIM 0 “HACK DRIVER HELD ——- et eesesescecceese Seeeh ets eeseesee®. seesecssrececcner ROAASSe is 4 stesseeseceeeeoe . ind Seer e ee pars eee reser eee nerer seat nottaes ese sepa eee eereey== Did Not Serve in — Case as Re. ported, but Was on Jury Which _-Acquitted_Sass—Beale. Here _ as Thaw Witness. COMES TO NEW YORK TO. AID FRIEND IN-HOUR OF NEED. Stories of Differences Between. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw and Husband’s Family and Law=” yers Over May McKenzie Are Denied The story that Henry C. Harney, the fifth juror chosen to try Hany Thaw for the murder of Stanford White, had served in a jury which : found a man guilty of. murder in the first degree—a case where the de- fence-was insanity—tums-out-to-be-false, \ as It is-true~Mr. Harney was-one of the twelve jurymen= who -tried- Augustus F. Sass for the alleged murder of Lena Wolff. The trial ‘took place_in General $ Sessions before Judge Warren W.--Foster,-in-May-of-—— 1900. Sass was prosecuted by Assistant. District-, -Attorney John F. Mc- Intyre. Fred House, who has just’ been made a Magistrate, defended. him. Sass was acquitted. This was the only capital case in which. Juror No. 5 of the Thaw case has ever had a hand, , although he has Served i 4 other criminal cases. Se Thaw, whose trial will be resumed Monday, spent most of today reading. newspaper accounts of yesterday's Eee =a was tip early-and ate-a-hearty breakfast. THAW"S: CALLERS T0-DAY-~ a His first visitor was A. Russell Peabody, of: his legal staff. After tMr. Peabody came: ttis wife. Shé was in conversation with him when Mrs, William Thaw, the prisoner's mother, and his half-brother, Josiah | Thaw, arrived. The older woman and her son left in, twenty minutes, oing away in a cab, Five minutes behind them Evalyn Nesbit Thaw. |came down stairs and departed on the Subway. It was the first time | B she had ever made the trip except.in-a-hansom or coach, The fact that \she did not go away in her mother-in-law’s company was regarded as. * | significant, in view of the stories of a widening breach between Tawi | women-folk: There was a_wild report to-day that Josiah Thaw had booked pas- e for two persons on one of the Hamburg-American liners, sailing mmediately, taking the state-rooms in the name of Mrs. William Thaw. iIf was said the Countess of Yarmouth, growing ‘disgusted with ¢ertain Phases of her brother's trial, meant to abandon him and go home to Eng- and. The story turned out to be untrue. ma | ] All the-alienists for the State in the trial and several of the more important witnesses -calied-by~ the prosecution, had ~a~ conference with trict-Attorney. Jerome to-day at his office. Among the number were Howard Nesbit, the brother of Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, and his inseparable om panion, Jack” Harnett, Stanford-White's-seeretary-—To-one-of Mire Jerome’s assistants young RE delivered himself of the folowing; te- flection> set =I “1 think. my sister is making “a ae Hee in (hie that Miss way McKenzie-awith-her-in-the-court-—May aE is-simpty- CONTIN 1yn-to-death."* It was rumored that-on Monday, when the trial is taken up, May i McKenzle will not be present, Truxton Beale, important witness for Thaw, is-in= ew York, 10 ap pear whenwanted and tell all-he knows about the incidents thutted wt é shooting oh Madison Square Roof Garden Next to Thaw’s wife, Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, Beale is reparded.- as the- rongest witness for the defense; His appearance-in-New’ York for the express purpose of testifying for his friend was not known to the Prosecu- | tion until to-day. The belief has been general that Beale was keeping-out lof the jurisdiction of the District-Attorney because he felt that what he knew of the killing would go cgainst “Thaw if told to a jury. ‘There was-a tdport to-day that Delphin-M. Delmas, the Silver- -tongued orator and criminal lawyer, who has came all the way from San Francisco to aid in the defense of Thaw, is prepating to withdraw from the case . ¢ unless May McKenzie, the actress friend of Evelyn Thaw, is kept out sof | the court-room. “This story, however, is strongly denied, Although Mr. Hartridge;-oane-of' the’ counsel for Thaw, denies that the presence of the dancer has caused a breach between Evelyn Thay ei mother, Mrs. William Thaw, and. his sister, Mrs; George Cinen no mistaking the fact that friction does exist and that May. Me. 2 is the-cause of the trouble. sis stopping at the Yale with with friends on the y evenings ago ho expressed opposed to the dancer's con- dance upon Evelyn Thaw and that elther she 4 from the con- ested In her, but ‘in cient. Miss “Mfc Thaw's friend, the caso of Kensie In Mra, vols and if sho choose bring her with her, It Is not © matter that concerns Mr, Delmas, 1am. aui Mise McKenzie Hor “Best Friend.” a Melkenale,”* uous pluce she has assumed or else continued Mr, » would: bar himself from the trial. us only’ one of the best Jturselt Peabody was the frst of | {ends Marry Thaw ever hut-syg—— > 's lawyers to call at the ‘Tomba|toek carn of Mra. ‘Tiinw last summer han tenderiy as a, a! when the young As he came away a reporter The Byening Workt asked him} Wife was euffering greater’ than t the alleged hostile attitude of} that barne by any n New York, r i + [Sho haa) beet tev f uver since, s rot, pure and simple," sald Mr, [Is lt to be expected that now Mrs, Hare body, “I doubt if Mr, Delmas has ry Th: cast her frlend aside! er noticed. the presence of Miss asce jist for th of appearances? engzle in the court. de ja not 1 paore 1s there any more fant in the