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

Hi Se prey nen * ‘BINA EDITION. | “ Circulation Books C Open to All.’” 1 PRICE ONE'CENT. MAN NOW ‘PLAINS. WH HE BOUNGED Declares Before Interstate Commerce Commission that Illinois Central's Cash Was Placed with a Weak ; Concern to Pad Its Deposits, i ae ‘After again defying the Interstate Commerce Commission and re- fusing to, answer questions concerning a $10,000,000 deal in Santa Fe Railroad stocks, in which hs was interested with H. H. Rogers and H. C. Frick, EH. -Harriman-to-day_tokt-why-he-had-ousted-Stuyvesant-Fish from the presidency of the Illinois Central Railroad. | He declared that Fish had used the funds of th: road to = d the we posits of the Trust Company of the Republic, and that he was force interfere in the interests of the railway. ig the first time since the. fight BANNER DAY AT. ‘omtré gear-ano that the-reseons for ii—were Wsclosed. Mr, Harriman's atatement created a __Dig stir in the court-room. The deciar-|_ ‘mtion was made in face of hot opp: Bon--on—ihe—part-of-—the—Commiasion’s lawyers, and-some of the triends~-o¢ Mr, Fish who were apparently In court Bnd on the lookout for the sprinsing of Bust such a coup by Mr, Harriman, When the inquiry was resumed In the Wederal Bullding Mr. Harriman took the stand and was examined further} — foncerning the Jugéling of the Chicago Geore Goud, Games setman nna | Card, a Hard One, Keeps _-Fair-Grounds Bet- tors Guessing. Mortimer Schiff, were thé principal @tookholders.-He- admitted that-hehid —Feceived a-$10,00 commission for help fing along that deal: Mr. Harriman explained that-the Uti- fon Pacific acquired a dominating inter- est-in-the Bouthern Pacific for the pur- posz.of-heading- off -James!H--Keenen dhis effort to secure contro! of that cor- poration for “Speculative purposes,” tnd declared that he thought the com- gniasion of $187,000 pald to William Twocketeter tor buying -wnd then -welthig back 36,QN. shares of the stock was Feasonable, : On the jtdvice of his coynsel Mr. Har- Fiman refused to go {nto details of the Purchabe by hiniwett, W81. Wweers and Hi G,-Prick-of--$10,000,000-Atehison- and Banta Fe tock. A Blap at Jos. HIM, Concerning the efficiency of the; Northern Paolflc Mr. Harriman sald ‘ho was convinced. that If he had-obtatned eontro}. of the road’ it would haye.besn seveloped along more Intelligent lines ahan under. the—imanagemant of J... Hi! and that the territory contiguous fwould have been benefited accordingly. ihety, [oo Mr Harriman -eqid thet inten yeure Rhe Union —Pacite had not- oniy—in- creased {ts efficioncy to « great extent, NEW ‘ORLEANS RESULTS: FIRST RACE. —t iv Cafoline 4 to 1 and 8 to 5) 1, Gremse Cas to 5 tor: pIRCEY 2, Balotee 3) = SECOND RACE—Excitement (8 to 1 and 2 to 1) 1, Kleinwood 4 to'5 for_place) 2,-Marvel P23. = —e- THIRD RACE—Sir Teddington (1 to-2-end out) 1, Weetern (even for: place) 2, Gentian 3. FOURTH RACE—Granada_(7 t0.5 and.1to.2).1, Light Note. (8 to.6 for place) 2, Phsadena 3, NEW ORLEANS, Fed, 2.—A hard card, made up of mudders, sept every- body guessing here to-day. yee were hard td tocate. The™ track deep in mud. FIRST. RACE—Three alld a hate turtongs, but had reduced trans-contfnental rates Paopuls abouttis osrseout Buartery, welgnth, Sooke : H Mr. Kellogg produced “reports by | Gremae iofed. Howe we 03 which he attempted to show that the 19 | Union Pacifis had increased rather than | 1, 8una Het Occreased tty rates—but-Mre Harriman posta wea Offered recorda of the company to; sub Sar) atantfate iis contention. He made thia{ BR diatement In refutation of att. Kellogg's 3B 10 fmplied charge thit both the. Union zg Pacitic and Southern, Pacine had ine | Bo tp creased thelr rates per ton of freight ourried. since the competition between | Won by Lady Carolina If; Gremac the two had been removed by his-foint | waa second; Balolee third. Why News Was Held Back. Mr, Harriman explained at : Jength how tt happened that a 6 per! h cent. dividend on the Southern. Preifl atock Inet August on the day It w the Executive Com: until & P. pritounee the London stock market Qh 4. prospoctive-rigo My thu. ut Uv the tock amarkot.h the report wan suppressed mnorning by hte nol. anounced clared. Ho #aid tee did not meet | and toa late t that day wit r “THUD RACE—Three-fourths ie BAL} Htartera, Welgnia Jockeyas Ber. Nt NEXC) Sir Teddington, 8, J. Hennessy eps oh Woldateln widend thers Pactte | Gentian, 19k Lo was the first over di On the stock | Waterfall. £0, Delany: 0 ind. Ujereforo. unum Harriman. Grace George: 99. 1h 4 «st ‘a t rlite. 105, F sh of the “dividend. wi # hesHh18, WIL Ott tment Ho wild b WILL CURE ASTHMA. NEW YORK,’ Feb. at Nearly, Nate a million asthmatles— ~OWR their completo. restoration to perfect Health to the tise of the-new Austrian drug ascatco, wu peliind the sup- $ askod If he the company aunpreseton ent to buy thr ko! £0 thespublic instruced His nut to anawce ghee riee ie. hie Austrian dispeulary, 22 Weat ee 40 answer,” responded M. Twenty-fifth street, New York, will con- =D Pete te Ts opus Of the 49 pe Sap Ny wo wi bottled of ascates ‘to callers 0} mall to thope who write for it, ti 4 ‘foutinued on i Thira Page Jerome Did Not Do Much to Shake ABE HUMMEL RETIRES NEW ORLEANS NEW YORK, TUESDAY, Her Remarkable Story on Cross- Examination, and Again He Failed on the Re-Cross. \UNDER FIRE OF OBJECTIONS. His Testimony as to Statement Alleged to Have Been Signed by Evelyn Fails to Get In-- Signature of Her Mother on Receipts for Money -from White. ordeal on the witness stand in her defense of her husband, Harry Thaw, who is on trial for the murder of Stanford White. tion by Mr. erome, but the District-Attorney did not do much to shake the remarkabie sfory that shocked the public when she first told it. Mr, Delmas then took her in charge on'redirect and adroitly but per- sistently led her-along-untit she-closed up every aperture, made in the fabric of the defense. Mr. Jerome again returned to the fray for the ré-cross-examination, Late this afterncon Evelyn Thaw probably ended her remarkable | She’ was called early to-day for a continuation of the cross-examina-' but she still held the fort, and after a labored effort to becloud her he gave up the struggle, and she stepped down smiling. One of the experts was therr sworn; but: the Court decided to-po pore further proceedings until. to-morrow. ABE HUMMEL FIRST CALLED. —Abe-Hummel, lawyer,-convicted-of perjury, and-who-is suspended stand to-day. It was expected that Hummel would raise all kinds of Old Ned'with the story told of Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, but he was blocked at every point by the busy Mr. Delmas. So Abe was asked to step down by Mr: Jerome, who was véry much |i chagrined, and, apparently as a last desperate resolve, he recalled Evelyn Thaw. <<From-the-maw- of his black bag-he_fished-out-the-young-wife's-own schoolgirl diary, written by ler back in 1902, when. she entered the De Mille Seminary, oyer in New. Jersey on money furnished by Stanford | White. It had been put into-his hands by that paragon of parents, Eve- lyn Thaw’s own mother. WANTED TO RIDICULE HER. , : Jerome, with unctuous lingering, read the five extracts from the lit- tle book. Plainly he hoped by quoting the girl’s words to Cast a Sinister shadow upon her_viewpoint of life at.that period—six months after. she said: Stanford White “had--wronged~her-in-his-room of many mirrors, } What he did-succeed -in-showing--was that Evelyn Nesbit sew: more about Broadway than most girls of sixteen know. When he had-got the diary into evidence and had asked a few final questions to close up some ragged ends of evidence, he announced that the cross-examination of Harry, Thaw’s wife was practically ended, Then the Court took-a recess. After recess she was agaln called to the stand’and identified a few photographs of herself. Jerome then, said her cross-examination was ended at Jast. tion that the girl's. mother was. living off the bounty of Stanford White at the time following the wrong she swore had been done to her EY: the architect. HER STORY IS STILL UNSHAKEN. : uth Unless Jerome can yet get Abe Hummiel’s story into evidence—and he still hopes to do so—Evelyn Nesbit’s testimony will stand practically undamaged. She had been on the stand already for five full days and part. of another day, and she did more to saye-her husband's life than all the alienists on earth could have done. In ‘its present aspects | her shocking narrative has not been seriously impaired i in any vital point. A tiny little pickle of a, man, warty on the head-like a cucumber, slipped.in the side door of the painted room where Thaw is on trial soon after court opened and bu himself between the spreading antlers of two oaken chair-arms, \ He blinked “unhappily-in-the glare: of 400-boring eyes: He was Abe Hummel, attorney-at-law, who had become for the ‘time being the most dominant ‘figure in the great murder case. _ Harry Thaw sidled from the tunnel-like corridér to his chair with his ‘usual’ crablike gait, and’ brushing} by Abe AUT chair almost j big bundle of letters arid a roll of brown-covered atuienle on 1 Which | the constantly makes notes: during thie. trial. All of his counsel had as- frony the practice of “his profession, was the first’ witness called tothe | i Delmas again took her iti hand and showed by question after quest sembled, ‘and they pointed out for him the unobtrusive little lawyer by whose testimony the State expeets to disprove the denials of his wife. Thaw looked around at Hummel with a scowling scrutiny, [LYON IDENTIFIED THAW’S- WILL. ul a Before boca Hummel on se hee noise sieaain Jerome fi FEBRUARY 26, 19077 | Displayed To- Day in Court =) called the Court’s attention to the fact that he had received a letter from Mr.- Lyon-said-he had~-been instructed by -Mre-Hartridge; -of Tha counsel, not ito send to New York as evidence any letters of the de-* fendant wrilteh since June 25 last, the day of Stanford White's murder. | Mr. Lydn_was.a-witness for: the defense. On the stand two | weeks ago he identitied-Thaw's-will;-which-he-said swas-intrusted-to-his custody. He also mentioned having considerable correspondence of the prisoner’ in his custody which he said he was willing to send to the court. “it-developed that Jerome and=Hartridge-misunderstood their -agree= ment as to what letters the Pittsburg banker was to send. The Prose- | cutor and Mr. Hartridge mutually accused each other of bad faith and.| their remarks reached: a phase of acrimony that called down a rebuke | fromthe Court. In order to prove Mr. Hartridee guilty of. ‘Gacking down on his agreement the Proseculor read about fifteen pages tron a transcript: of} the testimony. in which he (Jerome) “hdd talked about 4,000 words, Then ho.called out.in a clear voice: “Abraham Hummel,” SWARM OF LAWYERS BARRED OUT. The corridors about the main rotunda of the Criminal Courts Build- ing-had-the-appearance_of -harboring-a-conyention-of_all the bar.-associa- Hons-of New-York. <Lawyers-of-every- grader: the cit y-swarmed-to-the+ tribunal to hear what Delmas for the defense would do to Abe Hummel on cross-examination, él fil - The members of the Centre Street Bar Association stormed the po- Hice lines, claiming\privilege from the fact that they practised exclusively lin the Criminal Court7— The Essex Market” Bar Association was repre- sented by a sprinkling of cast side barristers, headed by “Re yer,’ who waved ponderous letters of introduction issued by Judge Rosal-| sky's lieutenant, Martin Engel. +” Doorman Jimmy Owens informed the clamoring attorneys that their passes were as good as Chinese laundry tickets, whereupon he flung the, importunate pleaders’ out into the still marble hall. Lawyers of higher brow who had notes from Supreme Court justices and high officis of Assistant District-Attorneys or vouched for by Clerk Carroll, of Gen- eral Sessions. There was the usual stampeding, crushing throng. of male muck- rakers, but by the time they reached Cerberus Owens the legal fraternity had invested the court-room, and some were crowded two.in a seat. Therel aight bebind the Jury box, and as the bailiff droned. out were distinguished representatives of well-known divorce mills among those present. Hummel Is Blocked « By Delmas Objections, The District-Attorney egnn the proceedings to-day by showing to his old-time foe, Abe Hummel, the paper from which ome had reail on yes~ torday the alleged amdayit of Evelyn Nesbit, made -{n 1903 at Stanford. White's instigation against Harry Thaw.- * ig i "Do wou know Evelyn Nesbit Thaw,” inquired Jerome.’ ING DAY ON THE Evelyn Thaw ina Pose She = alleged affidavit did refresh hfs memory as to the date gf Evelyn Nesbit's J. Deniston Lyon, of thé Lincoln National Bank, of Pittsburg, in which! 5 ment had existed. the Law-4 fared little better unless conducted by flying squadrons | ESULTS EDITION. Delmas. Draws from. Her ‘Testirt ‘to Mrs. Nesbit Provided for” Their First Trip Abroad) EXPLAINS ‘MANY DOUBTFUL _ POINTS IN, | HER STORY: | Those Trips onthe Yacht wit with Garland ine ~ Which “«‘Mamma’’ Always Figured— * Many Young Men Were Attentive’ to Her, but All Were Respectful. cr Was Wade NUSKNy: “When did you first know her?" _“In 1901 or 1902’ “Did. she come to your ‘Office on Oct. 27, 19032” ~~ —"Bhé came there the latter part of October of that year.” ‘The tawyer said-he-could-fix-the-date exactly by —reterring to 284 =. memoranda, He sald that he had met the girl first somewhere o'se than in his office. . retreshingn his memory by y reterriig. _ to documents not in evidence. The Court sustained the technical ‘objection, ut allowed Mr, Hummel to say that the photographic copy of Mrs, rs. Thaw visit to his office when she is alleged to have made the statement charging | the defendant with mistteating her in 4 German castle and also in Paris, omce?” | REFRESHED HIS MEMORY-— ~~ —¥os,-Mr. Hummel | that he had refreshed his momor. Vexamining the photograph of the age of the alleged '\ 4T— your memory refreshed ited Jerome, “How can It be?” objected Delmas. raph yet. — Mcient, he having seen Jt before, The Court finally allowed Hummel to te refreshed, and being thus refreshed, but not looking at {t, Hummel sala | Mrs. Thaw had called at his office on Oct. 27. Then Mr, Jerome pares “Did Evelyn Nesbit make a statement to you on that day?" “Yea.” “Gan you now state at what date you saw Evelyn Nesbit in your “He hasn't looked at the DEO: Jerome-contended_ that Hummel dlan't nee! Hal asa Senate at tt waa gala thé Frisco lawyer -butted-tn with an objection,-and Jerome-had——~—— to make ¢ speech, in which he explained that Wéfore he proved that Mie ‘Thaw had made a statement to the witness which was’ embodied inta document.Jater destroyed, he would first have to prove that auch a ~docii- ‘Delmas “answered thia pergument, aid there was’a lively wrangle be- tween counsel.” Jerome sald; “If I should prove that Stanford White as in Europe on the night Mrs. Thaw declared she was wronged, thht tbe allowed as a collateral fact,-for Mrs. Thaw AWore only. to— that sho told Thay that-on-a-certaln—night she was wronged: fhe, Seoraretore 1 could not traverse hér statement, but after she has-swo! that ehe never made any such statement as the one alleged, { consider that ch notenial js a traversable fact by what Jam secking now. +0-prove.E- desire merely to prove the existence gf this document, not;the truth of S for the purposes of cross-examination, “y want to establish that she received this paper at this staat oftee and-then. ta cross-examine her ov the absence of. the orlginal”, | pHOTOGRAPH OF TRE- COPY. = “The prosecitor had only the photograph of a copy in hig Poasessi At last ue (Jerome) was allowed ask} “On the noxt day atter her (Hyelyn’s) visit to your office, did seine deker, your stenographer, show you a paper of which this Is a ph notograph?” Jerome madé- over the quegtion to fnefude ‘also a man named Jacobson, another etenographer in the Hummel office. “Yes, ong of them did,” said Hummel, Then Jerome showed Hummel arpaper. “Ie that a carbon cwpy, of ‘the paper-whieh-you say_olther. Schneldeker_or-Jacobson gave yout’ t-—=—Tat} -objected_and_wassustained, Then Jerome put it this way: “What became of the original papes | which Schneldeker-or Jacobson. gave you on Oct. 28,1903? To whom ata you’ give it?" = Justice. Fitzgerald ruled out the question and Hummel's answer wag | lost to history and to posterity in the grave of things unspoken. | yerome tried-to-retrame-the-question-so-that-it would satisfy the Juss I tlco's requirements. ~ Up jumped Delmas with another “objection, In’ fact, | the ttle California lawyer scarcely sat down between protests, bobbing up lat every word of interrogatory that left the prosecutor's lips. Twice more Jerome tried to shape the all-important Interrogation so that he could get {t to Hummel! and {ts answer to the jury. He wanted to have Hummel swear that he had seen Evelyn Thaw burn tho orlginal, But stogy Delmas, late of "Frisco, barred the way. His shifting objections were good and valid ones—so the Court thought, Finally Jerome, daspatr- {ug of making headway on a single track, slammed his, documents dowa on the thble with the exclamation; “Then we will have to excuse this witne will call Mr, Hummel's stenographer and no GLAD 10 SLIP OUT OF IT. | Right gladly the hero of the Dodge-Morse divorce scandal slid out “Abraham aark young man came from the witnesae Wi wontlel no! wi for the time being. We Schneldeker," a stout, p:ump, room and took the oath. Schneldeker didn't linger long In the public eye ether, — Schneldeker sald that he was a lawyer, and that he had been em~= ployed by Abraham Hummel on Oct of 1903. He was also a notary, “Did you go to the t of Madis re Garden on the night Us Oct. 27 and see Evelyn > it sign A paper there?’ did. Sasa started to frame another question, but, looking the way of the chronically protesting little Delmas, he seemed discouraged, and sald: “That {6 all.” The -lawyer-notary slid down from, the witness-chair. Clerk Penny.’ called the name of Evelyn Nesbit Thaw. She tripped out from behind. thy” © jury-box, fresh and smiling, and displayed more color in her cheeks thon Lane ‘ ail Seiki httpd ininieaabinlis soil 1