The evening world. Newspaper, February 9, 1907, Page 1

<7 Jatly: serlous one, 9s the express option of the tender of tha’; ger: Frmomotive la lett. abe track. Both, englnea’} 1 ore® howhver,, and-traific on. ed, The re __exrellent co ey the | Seen pr erase oR NE Circulation Books Open to.Au.” “RESULT SE DITION. _._ NEW YORK SATURDAY PRICE. ONE CENT. 1 OES oa, 1907. CAUGHT AETE BIG ROB rying $2.8 90 reat” IA “ LATE NE THE WEEK AT ~NEW ORLEANS “Heaslip Cup, a Ties Mile Race, Brings Out Good Attendance. +—-NEW_ ORLEANS RESULTS. and 6} 1, Lemon Girl (4 to 5 SECOND RACE—Henry A, Schroe- der (15 to 1 and 6 to 1) 1, Arabo| (2t# TI Tor place) 2, Gould 8. NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 9—The best cord of the week was un affer at Cit: Fark to-day. The weather changed Cor the better ulso wim and bright. $pred_n_g0od.1 Cujy_a_tworm Among tne ¢ Arthur Cummer, Mamle Algol, Caxhle #nd_other ocd tung-dlatancu. perform: Fe. carded in the sfth race, including Emer- gency, _lens,-Paltoday, Sir Todington, Toboggan and Orbicu- Jar. ing and _promise—well. The long—Als- tance run driw out a large attendance and there war race, wns_the feature Polly Prim made al fig and cwon easily by a length from: Lemon Wit WEE BOOOT AIT Lie Wikyy Lem-= irl was three Jengths@ in. front at ile Burn. SECOND RACE—Steeplechas ouree, HoRss, WaIERT, jokey. Blechases Cul} courpe. rokiter. 130, ‘Patol... 14 4 Siaeaten a NOT ae OPEN IN THIS COUNTY, “You'll laugh. ‘There tan’t w pool-room. even in New York County. This an- nouncement was made to-day by Dis- trict-Attorney Jerome on reports from ~ Commissioner Bingham, The Generalsturned over Record No. 64, compiled from. the reports transmit- ted and’ O.'K.'d by Inspectors who re- ceived them from precinct ‘captaing. Record No, Mshows that there 4s-not | @ suspected place open in the county, Nothing paid about unsuspected olaces, Ww now rise and sing the Dox- olony. ‘PASSENGERS IN HARLEM | _ RAILROAD‘ COLLISION. DOVER PLAINS, N._¥., Feh.:9—The north-bound Now ork and North Adame express cn the Harlem division of the New York Central collided. with a freight train at Dover Plains to-day, One passenger {* reported slightly” in- Jarod. The wreck waa not a particu reducing sped to-muke a_regular_xtop at Dover Plains at the time. The two trains met head on, but owing to the reancedt speed the shock of the “collision FINST_-RACE=Pony Prim 16 -to 8; ad (he run sitone out | Tho track was In ps were Alma Bufour, | King e607 Nala of sprtaters-are} Ateadoty-Brevze. 7 The other races are very Interest-| full tine of vooks In on R BERY| M..Tichler, ing, the marieyy nace, Ory te ROBERT CORTESE KILLED BY BOMB SENT BY ENEMIES “ATHUETIC-GAMES, | Lively Competition Marks Matinee of Pastime A.C Carnival, The afternoon games of the Pastime {AC hsld= in Mudison Syuere-arden produced very exciting sport.’ evente_wereall-echcol-boy-competitions: The track Was outlined by a quartor- inch strip of wood around its entire ctr jeult. Phe handicaps were distinctly marked in white paint, school boy remarked they were easier to‘understund than the geometrical {l- lustrations of his teacher. The Attendance ‘was rather small; the crowd holding back to fll the big arena to-night, when the giants of national repulation Will strive for supremacy, The summaries follow: Fifty Yards, Final—J. Graham, 118, Brook. lynt W, Delches, 0, Manhattan; W. Cooper, 74, Manhattan, Time, 6 3:3 seconds, Sixty Yards, Elementary Schools,” valim- ted welght—J. O.. Hrien, 10, Manhattan, 16 raity. Sectlement, 2 ty ment 1; B Ume, exer, Union dim , ‘g pl, /Coingideny - : _| realization of their loss besin to be | walked Into asters tn Mill AT THE CARDEN =} been++ni-jo-Judge Cortese from: New~ The A Brooklyn ot 1 tne! oe ase so Speund, Heat mi Lambert, 0 feet 2 inch; N, Molet, Manne stan; 12 fect’ 2 inches, atest Binty Yards, Third aAset hey Ourty, ie ear ols tenant, Bei ferth A sans patcany ime at eeconde, at Bix , Bie ools Fiaad ean, nen) ‘Manbattan, "1%, Inches: Ni dane iar arta ce ed Meinches, | Time, t1-8 seoon Tiveraeiticmeat Athletic: Leajue (scratch): Mi Union Bottiement ti Bel University Bettlemeat, 2y Unve, 1 heat, Intersettlement—Erwin "atthe, tinal; 7h gh sermetr io tn receipe of — threatening Maser Union: Bettherven oat Hina, Tottere-nid-poseit cards. The Sernlty. Rettlements pis arti: Universlty| rN oe ‘OF theag, “treating. them 5,000 REWARD FOR SENDERS OF FATAL BOMB $ ier. Was) Paterson So Men dred and FiRa| : : : “and fobhed| “Seek the Assassins of nit -Avenve Justice Cortese. ANARCHIST SUSPECTED. Infernal Machine Weighed 40 Pounds and Would Have Destroyed Ship. A reward of $5,000 for the capture. ot th Black-Hand workers or anarchists who sent the forty-pound bomb which killed Juntice of the Peaire Robert Cor- tene, of Ne Jate this afternoon by prominent busl- Ness Meh and oMicials of that-city, — Sumtice Cortese was a-victim of the hatred of the criminals of hix own race. He had worked for many vears in nld- Ing the police until the bom arrived by exbress yesterday, mortally wotind- ing him and severely injuring hts twelve-year-old son Furr; He leave n widow and eixht children and, as the Paterson. J., was proposed apprecixted,-to-day, citizens talked of nwarding a pension to-the fartiy— This will be brought up at the next meet- ing of the Board: of Aldermen. Wile th tlk of money measures was CSS Dae Ae TES ike a Matement as to the persons he pected of vending the bomb, There were vo many desperags criminals 2nd! «nemles of soclery who hated and féared him that the sta of little use, since any one of a dozen sought to bring about his Chief of, Pclice Bimson wns hopeful, however, ond sald this after- Toon that-all tis detectives are at work In -Patecson and nelghboring citlos. “Two promising fields forinvestigation were talt-open-yithin-n ter houre-atter the assassination. Thy Mrat_ concerns | an affair In which Judge Cortesé wag Interested a few months Axo. An Italian boy in Paterson, at the Jnstigation pf two’ men, robbed hin father of $1.20 and fled. Judge Cortese ei _therenucat_of the Chief of Police | of Paterson, trailed the boy to Pean sylvania and arreste him._The men escaped. The boy was’ sert to prison for fifteen years. Judge Cortese, it ts understood, had a line on the two men End wae about-to-cause thelr mrreat. ‘Onc- Sylvester DeRosa, who called allivan: and was considered nm colony, street. month ago and kulled- the proprietor, Devita, In cold bioed-—“atter—the- mune. der he disanpelred, “Tt ‘sara;trat Judge Cortese had a line on his where abouts and expected to arrest hi The office vr Judge Cortese was at No; #}- Passaic street ino fiimsily con- wtructed frame dwelling, put up after qhe great Paterson Dre. His home is a Duriag his. Gb- fence “trom We oMice—the—pince ves Yookea “ALY ‘DY “Nia” two woe,” Raphaeh aged-rerenteen and Fury, aged twelve. Delivery of the Bomb. Repdacl was alone in the oMmce, yee- lerday 4 con when a messenxer fromthe officer of -the~Unhed States Expresy Company entered aiid Groppedt 4 heavy package’on thé floor, It had himself 5: Giagrace ta the Paterson It. ark= and the charges were prepald. Young-Cortrec-atencil-for_ft-and—kloked it under_the desk. When the Judge got home at 6.90 o'clock, Raphael told him there was. a heavy package fot him at the office. ‘Accompanied by ithe Pury, the Judge Kentoground:ta-Nortl Pax arstt: lit the ‘gas and dragged the putkago tothe Hght: In the bimplicity of the Internal: Wia- chine lay {ts . devillsh effectiventss. Judge Cortese caught hold of the loose’ end of the stritp and gave It a sharp pull, inorder -to releagg, the ‘tongue of the buckle. The strap was connected witha fulminate of mercury..cap.on.the. Inside of tho box. Blown Up by ‘Bomb. ‘There was a flash und a roar and the earth: shook for | blocks: around, The walls of the rocm:-crumbted tn,-The floor, -ylolding to Ud. explosive fqrco. of the inmmense charge of dynamite, was Blown into the cellar, “All the furniture ropped with it and Judge Cortese and hig son went down with the wrecka, The Judge was lifted from the o and carried to the strect, His left log had been blown off, his back was ‘Jproken--he was blown'to pleces, but he was altye. "I sannot Uy around him. ke mé to a hosp and send a stenographer to me quickly, I have much to tell His Dying. Statement. He dictated a long statement before he died, reciting his suppicions and EGnvletis As he mentioned each faine of a suspect tho namo was tle- phoned to Police Headquarters. an detective was sent out to find the mi Before; long it beckme apparent that there had been an exodus of persons "he told the men there might have an interest In. the : ‘Judge Cortese death ge te cof, Judea, Cortese’ q Jon Sen any shows that Ne waa-con= ago mT Rata? cant written fin Yeailan, AN AUTHORIZED INTERVIEW being made thé police soemed to be en- in S Summit, iN. J uthorized interview, which is one of the most important contributions to} tice Cortese before he died managed to 4 ithe history of the Thaw case that has yet been furnished, with the ex- ception: of Evelyn: Nesbit Thaw’s own wonderful: story told under oath ement-has to far been} on the stand in the trial of her husband for the murder of Stanford White. | He seemed to be laboring under excitenjént, and it was evfdent that he Jy were Interested In the suppression of vice, again. THAW’S REMARKABLE STORY. \Head of Society for-Suppressi Vice Bears Out the Dramatic Tes- ~“timony Given by Her 6n the : Witness Stand. FOR THE EVENING WORLD. Declares Thaw.Told- Him a “Year Before the Tragedy of White's Character.and He Found One Clear Case Against “the Architect. s Anthony Comstock, lying dangerously ill of penumonia at tis: home i this afternbon gave to an Evening World reporter an “1 know that Stanford White-was.a human monster,” said'the invalid head of the. Anti-Vice ‘Society. “| know that EVELYN THAW TOLD TRUTH ABOUT COMGTI O ANTHON oh. oj MRS.. HARRY ‘THAW AS A MEMBER OF THE ‘‘FLORODORA”’ CHORUS Posed for CHARLES CURTIS of The Evening World Photographing Staff eHrEeEe FERRER ACHEEEEEE EE HERE EE EEE ERP ees petite hirer et Ba _\‘niueh of what Mrs. Harry Thaw:has stated asa witness is_ tI “[know. that-Stantord=White's “den in- the: tower -of = “Maditon Squari Garden Was as” she has describéd“it. I knoW- that White-made a business of ruining young girls. | know of at least one specific instance. And what | know =| Jearned_after 1-had_been glven the first clews by Harry Kendall Thaw himself.” \ VALUABLE AID TO THAW. ate the-reporter he ‘sald: \ first knowledge of-this case dates from the summer of 1905—about | a year before the killing, T should say. ne afternoon a tall, well-dressed, well-bred young men came to me in my Mice in the Temple Bar Bulllding. He-opened the conversation by-asking ma-¥. “Then he wanted ‘to know if my-rociety yaye special attention to the arrest-and-puntshment of men who preyed upon the chastity of young girls. I told him that we did. He fumped_up_abriptly, said he would se¢ me again and left without-telling — me his name, At the door he stopped long €2ough to say he would see me was desperately {fh earncst. 7% few days later he came back. This time he séemed more at ease, | but he was still laboring under strong emotions, a& T could see very plainly. He now introduced himself’ As nearly as-I-reoall, he saidi “{ am Harry Kendal Thaw, of Pittsburb. You may have heard of me? [-want-to:tell-youcot-a-man- swho-bas-rulned-more-young: girls.than-any-man-— in New York. He Is particularly given to pursuing the young girls of tho stage. It is a debt which eoclety owes to itself to halt him now, before ho brings -shame_and sorrow to any more victims. | WHE HAS COMEIN- MY. OWN_LiFE IN SUCH AWAY THAT 1-DE. | SIRE ABOVE EVERYTHING ELSE TO SEB HIS PRACTICES STOP- PED IN ORDER THAT. OTHERS MAY BE SPARED. THE SUFFER- ING-HE HAS- BROUGHT-UPON-ME- AND MINE.-HIS NAME 1S WHITE, HE 18 AN ARCHITECT AND - HE HA6- AN IN: { STANFORD } FRMOUS DEN IN THE TOWER OF THE MADISON SQUARE GAR: | DEN. \“That th effect was his statement,” continued Mr, Comatock, “although ’ biel promise to investigate, He abreed to pay the cost of looking} into’ the case, He at once “mailed me a check of sufficient size to derray | (he Necessary —-expenges, - andsubsequently..wrote me several. times. upon} the subject of White, asking each time what progress wo were making. -| INVESTIGATION PROVED IT TRUE, “Our inyestigation confirmed to a great degree what Thaw had told! me, Our detectives were astounded at what they discovered. We worked hard and I learned a great deal, but of all cases these are the hardest to prove under the rules of evidence, and before risking an artest I determined | to catch White redhanaed in his Iniquity. ; 1 learned that his nooms in the tower were as Mrs, Byelyn hay has’ described them in the trial, Two of.our detectives endeavived to hire rooms in'the same tower in order to watch: his goings and comings. Tho deal was almost completed when’ one cit the detectives made a bungie. Something , whieh he sald or did gave the alarm to the Janitor, and ai- though we were on the) waiting list for a long time, and although several times apartmepts in the tower were vacant, we were never able to secure a suite or a single room, We wore still vainly trying to arrange a trap from’ which there would-be no escape for White when he dismantled his room| in the tower, THE CASE OF ANOTHER VICTIM. —“T-learned positively of-one case whero White had rulned 4 _girl only fifteen yeara—old-almost identically-as- Mra. Evelyn- Thaw- describes her | {a true. I-delinve in her story and I baso that belief upon whiat T know of| Delmas, now openly In charge of the forces of the besieged, who Insisted hg: | tho’ Ltalian ‘ ie | ‘ice. Two Weeks Judge: ¢ es ean mee the man. “Tie last time I saw, Harry, Thay was only two or three weeks before ti! he-shot: Whites: -He-ngpearedta-be-in'\ a otesperate state-=Hke a min -who Te Wwell-nigh-frantic Ue satd t0-mewildty: "YOU MU8T KEEP-ON! YOU MUST BE. STOPPED NOW—AT- ONCE! “Twill willingly sign a>statement to the truth of all that I have told se T asked-him-n-great deal-more of the matter, He left-after se- you, and: meore 1 well enough 1 weuld swear to-it-in court {f 1 were asked} todo 80." Sa a ‘Harry Thaw to Go on the Stand in Own Defense The culminating sensation in the trial of Harry Thaw stand in his own defense. Even the soul-baring story which his wife has told of her betrayal at! the hands of the man Harry Thaw slew, {t is now predicted, w!ll be eclipsed s of self-analysis by the testimony’ of Wear that from the hour of bis first proposal of marrage, when Evelyn Nesbit sobbed {out to him her shameful confession, he had been tortured by visions which tame to-him by day and \ by nighe, in the Broadway cafes as well as in his double-locked bedroom— | visions which bore to him:the warning that unless he killed Stanford White in dramatic development and depth the defendant himself. For he will his wife's, life would be taken by slow poison, Now ic is plain why all along the defense hos actached such deep Im-/ exclamation of Harry Thaw when ne kissed his wife five seconds after he had chot Stanford White on the ' Madison Square Garden, and cried out to her,'"It's all right, dearte, portance to-the seemingly meaning pr probably saved your life! \ , i. (Contimued on Second Page. MUST STOP THIS MAN! HE- will be fur- nished by Harry Thaw, who, it was announced, will be put on the witne: I have WOM FOUND DEAD IN HER BURNING FLAT - Mrs. Sanders's Dress’ Caught Fire and Neigh- bors Arrived Too Late. |. Eddie’ who sella papers | restaura the smoki y a city i erate of satire, thm | own case, but the biel was In the chorus of a road company, and we could| DELMAS DECIDES ON THIS STi? ea ant the hoa waa nt of Catholic. intents Ten, ard. for pas Aras Lot? a Dake} plisze and waste at ate ntse fore s Saat "yong | FHeRas, “it Sone aed not reach her and make a witness of hor, We got partial evidence of other) Not until to-day was It definitely decided that Thaw should take tho SO a aD atnccmmtaiaeet rey ah, ! ureals of the Central Or-| things—things that convince me that what Harry Thaw's wife now ewears/sand in his own bebalt, It was the little fighter {rom ‘Frisco, Delphin Michaet | Ue WoWAns Need Who arrived Ih. reaponse::to-the--alaray ent on the discovery of: fire had now work to-do, The Coroner's office wag. ea notified: