The evening world. Newspaper, March 12, 1907, Page 1

Two CPT SYories REWSTERS HON “FRIDAY, Th THIQTEENTH BY GEORGE B. McCUTCHEON BY THOMAS W. LAWSON Now Running in The Evening World WHATHARA—Warmer, with rain to-nie | Ui ‘ Cireulation Books Open to to 4 Au?” | MARCH 12, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, cay ia A Ht col RESULTS EDITION I 19074 ‘Battle-Ship Jena Destroyed By Magazine Explosion at Toulon. | " Mangled Victims 1 Tio in Air and ~_ Rain of Shells and Fire Follows | ue _ Explosion of Magazine on le = French ch Flagship Jena. 630 ABOARD VESSEL MAKE. DASH FOR LIFE IN WILD PANIC— —Blazing Ship:Cannonades Toulon Docks Where. Disaster Occurred and Throngs in. Terror I 4 Run for Life — Dead Estimated ,. at from 200 to 300, TOULON, France, March 12. ‘The explosion of a compressed air James Clinch Smith Testified How He Chatted with Thaw on the Roof vo SCHIFS VALET MADE LOVE 10 _ Garden Just Before the Archi-~. BANKER'S WIFE} oS DIALOGUE SHOWED THAT — Astonisliing Confession _ by the Assailant in Prison. Photographer Eichler Not Allowed to Testify as to the Dates When Evelyn Nesbit Thaw _ Is Alleged to Have Posed in His Studio. —- - HIS BURNING~ LETTERS. Audacious Servant Declares He “Was “Irresistibly Attracted ~ by Her Beauty.” The impudent Infatuation of Laurence | whose admission as a witness Delmas and his associates fought very de Foulke, m valet for the wife of hiv! a employer, Mor{imer 1. Schift, soa of /Strenuously, was allowed to testify by Justice Fitzgerald to-day. ‘He! Aacoh 1. Schift_and—member_ot _the | was ealfed-to-the-stind-at-the-aftcrnoon session and_told a story. that has. banking firm of Kuhn, Loeb-d sereehs not hitherto been giver to the public-of the-way Thaw_spent the minuites_ to his arratgnment here to-day, resulted in the iotal destruction of the vessel) great damage | “to other vessels in the ' vicinity _bundreds. First reports placed the ‘number of dead. at between we hundred and_ three hundri and later develo, ~~) official fig that it is certain that over fifty of the Jena’s crew were killed butrignt: that 100 were seriously injured, and that 200 were | 1 £ ighily. wounded. The officials say that these figures are probably under | TRY FAR MON i ery - the real numbers. A humbe of the injured-are-expected to die. apt. Adigara, wito: fommanded the Jena, is supposed to have teen | i] NEW O DRLENS Killed. Rear-Acmirs al Manceron, whose flag the ship carried, is. ae the injured. 10 hasan Cente on aa | | BODIES OF VICTIMS BLOWN IN AIR. After the=ex i i The=disaster-was: the uns! remarka bein history = Particularly Attractive anda loss of life that is estimated jn the ents tended to confirm these. Semi-_ | | torpedo on the battle-ship Jena, !ying at the Missiessy Dock’at the arsenal ‘DETECTIVES TRACE KIDNAPPER OF BOY DERLOIN ——_——SS SS ~ Moston fire-swept fear the Bret pola ae magazine: after "| burglary | nad written Mrs, Sohitt a note, how ~P eimaatred ttre panier over thie in entre Follcess Court es charges of hefore -he shot-and_ killed: Stanford White on the Madison Square Roof fal énious assaglt The! casewWas shrouded in mystery until De Foulke, a typical valet, told how he _ ‘and Garden. As Smith proceeded with the details of the conversation fe alleged” he had with Phaw_the-interest-in the court became_more and more appar Schiff had discharged him and how he e h feuagteoueassatol thei Rohite! Moria ata fent. It was soor established that Smith’s story was one of the most %2 Fifth avenue Friday, might and | remarkable in this most surprising of murder trials. forehead ~ with @ heavy bowling pin; | Up to the time that De Foutke made |sat beside him soon after entering the roof garden and conversed in 4 tracked hee cates elon ee i { the shots that ended / fon feeling toward the wite of hie era. most rational manner with him just before he fired ployer it appeared that he had invaded! {he life of Stanford White. the Bchift home for purposes of re mee TALK BEFORE THE TRAGEDY. e Mremeasn tena ae Vey | Every half minute Delmas was bobbing up to object, protesting 7 Strenuously that Jerome was leading Smith and putting answers into his terday. All the information the poll ‘Praker Tata: the house: woled iewalh Half-of-what-Smith said was-being- stricken from-the-records-as — Schl) fast as he uttered it. broken Into the house, stole Sea mouth: worth $200 and assaulted Mr. STEER aT etdal teed nee The yess went on, ae telling how Thaw and his party entered James Clinch Smith, the brother-inslaw of Stanford J White tenet ~ The switness with-fine—dramatic—eflect told how he-aceveed-tad oh ees Private: ‘Agency Receives betters from NEW ORLEANS RESULTS. __Child-Stealers Offering to Nego-—- FIRST RACE—Geneva (3 to 5 and! tiate for the Return of “the Marvin Lad out), 1; Bonnie Hay (12 to 1 fer) Lh Jone r 'g Ie explosion for two Wars, The 1 ill of the Tera was like a “gigantic homb,-from—the-bowels-of -whielt-there-Shot-into-the-stir-great-cannon “sheets of steel shells, immense pieces of machinery, and, most horrible: of all, human bodies and parts of human bodies that fell in the sea and | on Jand for a_radius of half_a mile-in all directions 2 The pieces of wreckage tell_on the war vessels arte the. lent crashing through the decks and causing widespread loss of life. Every | detonation shook-the:entire city of Toulon and the surrounding country! The streets-and-yards-of the arsenat-and the roofs f the buildings were showered with twisted pieces. of sté#l and iron.and:fragments.of corpses, “THRONGS ON LAND FACE PRRIL,. tice} 7 2;-Emibo SECOND RACE—Esterjoy (7 tol [Band 1~to-2),.13_Arabo (6 to 3 for} Yplacey, 2; Lignts Out, -3- Wethorders-tror as ’ viet called “Big W,, THIRD RAGE—Sagapanak (5 to 1 rehing the Tenderloin for kidnapped Horace N.. Marvin, jr, and 24t0-4) ty Hyperbole (& toot for wa sou-ot DX Horate-N. Marvin, of Kitts Hammock, Det: ASPACO MCLAUELIIN ‘Lo arregt a notorioys ex-con Detectives Clark, Peabody and O'Farrell are to-day the four= place) 2, Voboome 3. Rae Panic reigned: while the explosions were in-progress— None was — a eeogalnini Forte LOe fet —— foolhardy enough to attempt to do anything for the instrument-of-de—|-NEW—O8! March 1 ealved trom the sup weather was clear to-day and th Was forwarded to ectlve Francis, of Delaware. nbaum would not diseloxd tte full contents, but MA DAFOE ved as follows! ily WV, hye you mre the only juun to cH#Fry out the deal He Auyn no, If 80, you meet me, struction that was belching tons of projectiles like a volcano, - It is impos- sible to tell how soon an investigation of the wreck will be possible, Late! Ate eNe ex rd. Th in the afternoon the explosions ceased, as it Spears that the vessel has’ feature race, rene aig waa thet sunk and ‘flooded herself.; ”' fourth, which’ brought together a few nes oon Ww were very ac be out of The Jena was in the first-basin-of-the-Missiessy Dock when thelist amall but solec| feld, the ellgibles Ine naa EO rdeaedl Mat tiaa ah tlt) pe LE with: yon. | om 4 Canadian city, purporene: rowill tarn¢ explosion occurred. At that hour the workmen in the Arsenal were just | iudine Yankee |Girl, Polly Prim, Pink waved bene Weillanebye IneoMlanas EN eEMtaepoue Maree uenptacere These | and demanding th. of the reward Tie goods, Pat a ‘Tuesday's Star, Donna ani Tom Dolan. promised to furnish a rattling race In the other races there were eplendid returning to the shops after luncheon. They heard the noise made by “. the exploding torpedo, saw the clouds of smoke and steam issuing from Jn Wedneaday's Heralds Got the Letter From Canada, y'8 male ret hough, ths | t lett money offered fo be timed over eldon concern. the ‘battle-ship and with one accord rushed toward the dock. fields, woll) matched for’ speculative baa befor d | 1 a letter came to us fro, * Y ‘. . purposed and promising good sport. | shod ‘ aid Tannenbaum to-day, tall The vanguard had reached-it-when, with a deafening roar, the after-| ‘mo track was lehtiing. far. ‘The f Latyimerely 8 [we Were inatrticted to. got un m0; f \, powder magazine blew up, The entire rear end of the vessel flew into| attendanci, was large. | me igeameomons?’ land. pay lt for. the return ot: the boy. 1 don't want’ o say Kid tn im goed | was wlio fed and happy.” cart ot Tor diuctose™ the j UY 9 of the writer, or the Canadian] (, Jelty, from which It was posted. He sald ngtlen of the Bhicidon arene these facta, however, had been went to | with the kidnappers who aro acoiing a FIST RAC Who the person i ed this Jeter, op from what nada it came, It might; our future connection with he | 3 * the air and showers of wreckage fell upon the! men rushing to the scene, SHELLS DROP. EN CITY, i All the electric light, telegraph and jathtee wires In. the arsenal | }3) fused, © A shell weighing twenty pounds dropped. on the ground a quar- I ing to ‘ a. tthe ransom.from: Dre atarvin of a mile outside Ahé Arsenal’ gates. Thi icers rg the Delayare authorities. He added tage fst) etiots ut in charge ordered that ‘his aency would not act aa ko- no alehed ia ane aitehard: Wutaae t the men-to save themselves and there was a frantic rush for the gates, wrote to Dr, Mar- i ‘Then came one explosion after another, while buildings tottered, the ground shook and great waves rolled into the docks as from a storm. Then entire population of Toulon started toward ithe Arsenal, but the Eater rush was halted by the clouds of destructive projectiles hissing out of | 4 the cloud of steam. surrounding the Jena or dropping from the sky. tas (oes betwe the kidnappers tn the col- | ton, of Jersey lection pf any rarsonr money, I vin' declaring: “I know all about your boy. Brought to This City. T can get rt of the letter was sent from Thik “) : Dow el.. tothe police of Jerse: For the past several days it haa been | expialned that theireat of ety: the opinion of the New York police that | ]t was explained (hat t the kidnapped boy was brought through | ter that at the fop of it Swan weitten | this clty, After he aeizea while | #31,000."" ing under a haystack near hia | Saco era ecaat | bome, on Monday, a week ago, he la Shortest, ie orida Route sald to have been put on board a'sloop {s Seaccand AI Tine. through | binenurat, fee ‘ an na, ae it third? and taken up Delaware Bay, He was i133 Broader ee steeple Deu! betting (Continued on Second Page) y suaded:the.valehte leave the house 804:4n0> Gardens “In about aninute—Thay: walked towards ome. and. ca ar the bank tater for“moncy, ~ ~ 3 Loose-Tongued Servant’s Story: j recognized me. He aaa and spoke to me.’ “Ty Contre—Htreet—-Poliea Court. today! “State all that was satd,” said Mr. Jerome, ew z De Foulke developed @ surprising astral “His tiret words were thats fanny tant tt sat of loquacity, He saya he ts twenty-one] 116 gi1q, +] could only get three seats here on the roof for to-hight, Bo I'll yeara.old, but looks yal xvery_well dressed: _a_palt rer. He. was 1G jooking -at-the-audience- of brilliant “Then he Ktoot in” tront of-me have to stroll.’ “he sald, ‘I’m golng to stroll about, pearl spats forming » conspicuous.tea-|‘Oh, you'll have to stroll,’ I sal ture of his attire. In tanguage he (>! 476 gatd, ‘Whose seat is that rT said, { don't know; I just got there” xery much along the line of a hero tn He sald, ‘They are good seats, and If and took one of these two. se He TI ett downy voua bie! “fie offered me a-clgnr, but -t-refused:--He-lneiicod- and sald,— “Seven months ago," he euid, “through ‘No thanks, I don’t smoke! He sald, ‘How ts tnat?’ T sald, ‘Tim a ight sn-ernployment —agetcy-of= thts ctty, 1} No thal snintimes cla varette,’ So he Rave me a rigarette, Mt my, entered the” simply” OF Mr “Mortimer pemokers: O07 clgar and fora minute aid two Wed med the Siow, Schiff, 1 was w trained servant and | ojgarette and he Ht a cardenshow, ane had been employed for nearly three 1 rather slow for # roof als wT he-agreet— f see bering Ysatde "Tan tink Years.uaa Valet. by. CW. Moftman, | Waswer ars thowghtfi- might be pecan ee tp eee ueet [wien me, vat asi He a varlety.show.!, He 3 od me {fT was speculating found If) irresixtibly “at. | y much lke - LU LED EM LAS GRE Teo erate iB eet andwanted to know If T knew of anything gdd down there, in Wall $ pas HE ee any money to Invest, I'd put it all in steel anc | Then shee L think they're good stocks.” —t rareed with “him, “He pper stocks. 2 ait, ‘Yes: t-em- going to sail-next as going abroad and T said, “Yes E me If 1 was Bi she breaks down too cad, 1 don't like her: in the Deutschland.! He sald, ; ; Q f nbrotd pretty soon, out T think CH gu-on-the: Amerika. he Deutschland, } know the captain, and he wes hecasked me If 1 thotteht he could get any Ameria liked the suites on the iis meals but that -nelodrama When asked what the! whole Uilng was about he plunged into| you don't: his story without healtation, sat down, “Very _pald, and (Continued —on—Secend— Paget —— a KILLED IN AN 1. Img { sald, 1 Wk very kind to my wife! 7 large gultes on. the He ‘sald he nice, served in his rooms, Amerika beoaure he cowl hry they snares fn fancy urice for si nti eas AIRLOCK IN THE |much married?" he asked Ty asked hiny wit he tieantc “Well! he’ mald) ‘are you above meeting a very irl?) Sho Isn't of the roof, but T can She's a buxom brunette—not good-looking, but very | give you a note to her, ‘Unfortunate. Employee | iiee ripanked him and told him [didn't care to meet the girl. F Hi “He then sald: ‘Do you know the members of my party?’ [ sald; ‘I Meets with a Strange have known McCaleb some ime, but [ never met Truxton Beale until this Accident, Jatternoon, when ho came into my club.’ He sald; ‘That's funny that you {rover met him before, He's very prominent and a very dae man.' “Then he sald: ‘Do you remember-an occurrence Of u fow years ago, In Edward Colliater, an employes in they ynteh two men and 4 Woman were Involved?’ Then he slopped and. said; Leena Lat Haat “i 22) Oh, no; you wouldn't remember It—you're too young, You're entirely too noon i young. [ sald: ‘I'm older than you think,’ He sald: ‘You can’t be over He wan at work in the Now York| thirty-three.’ I sald: ‘You're like ey body else at guessing my age. I'm past my fiftieth birthday,’ He said: ‘You don’t tell me.’ Then he stood up and Jooked over the crowd again, gazing toward the elevator. “After a few minutes he sald, ‘Excuse me, I'm going this wa,’ motion- (Continua on Second Page.) ree $ end of the tube off Bast Forty-second street at the tlme, ‘Phe body was taken to the Fitty-first Street Station, Coillister at No. 00 West Forty-ninth street, East ved