The evening world. Newspaper, March 18, 1907, Page 1

CURED NOTE EERE ry COMBAAGYDOOOOIOIOTIOOOAUIHAIEOHONAG. CODDOELOOOOPSIOS ! EXCLUSIVE INTER VIEW WITH CHAMPION JEFFRIES--See. Page ro WILL FIGHT SEES THE MONEY @BO08S: CLUDE GEGOOHESUDEOOOOOQOOOOHOO OSG SCO) IF HE WAN’ TS $40.01 000 AT LEAST SHARE OF PURSE CEOMTOOH: DUDDDOOD VOODOO HOG GOOQOHODO GOOD VOOO OOOO - FOR HIS Dood 0000000, DO OOOO ROCOCOUL RESULTS EDITION [ “Cireulation Books Open to All.” | pee ONE CENT. NEW-YORK, MONDAY, MARCH 18, 19076 ‘PRICE ONE CENTS SS. ~AMORY gOT ~— $6400 FROM ob te Mb it Grnanciee Wat Told the Road's Affairs Were in . Bad Shape. . _GAVE JEROME SECRETS. “But, Witness Says, District. Attorney Whitewashed Criminals. In reply to questions of his attorney Col. William N. Amory, who ts sulay President Vreeland, of the Metropolitan _ Street Railway Company, for libel and eskx daniages of $25,000,-denied on the witness stand in the Supreme Court, before Justice Dayton, to-day that hi attacks on the system, following his rea- fgnation as secrotary of the old Third Avenue Company, had the creation of @ Mar market In the street baiway' . stock for its object. = _s-He was, he declared. actuated solely Y public iptorest in fore his “very close friend, Mr., Je- rome," solcly because he was “' terest -in_ exposing the | — “port -to-thenitatinen: Pig Ue ausoUNE SraaTET” 15 “$25,000; | ——“‘presentation tothe District-altorncy, The discovered in Paris 8, Husdell, -Henry’ M. c and 8. F. Rawson appeared for Amory; fnd_Paul Cray Franklin Hat Jett sand De Lancey, Nicoll for Vree Jand. Mr, Earle opened the proceedings by announcing that ne wished to make an amendment to Amory’s clalin, reduc- Vreeland’s statement, following 2 fy's attack on his methods, called him, @mnong other things: "A xotortous char- acter," and aileyed that his wttuoks were made for the pur iscting » blackmail from Wie ML ne In his anewer to cnplaint Vreeland deviated. Aa were, trie and nol sianue MGobirle Calva Aanary to-day and, Pelei tiie to id ile Pel, asked hin {0 expluin why wo styled. ‘The wlines: Reon arene and Herbert Ta, jane for -the ie Perle he_m tan Fix biteted statements: “IM vou disturb any Ogurea Béstronolitan Rexmintreies ied, abr an Dray ion hima about on-tho-re tho Metra. Amory” based ‘Did vou ever take part. de any—bear'{! poitan stock * ef “Why did vou nst do wo? i “1 was collecting tie Informazton tor | A YDid you ever tell your friend: sf stalconcernink) the: Metropat tna thas | a nd to Vour Jen igo?” perce arr a ‘not io. tell | Brn, aye tar simply, to use It to their vpyreanae beeen Sieh eer Poa the District-attorney. ‘Th ly made up a the report _| Dover respectively. laid the result of hin Inveatization. be-| the + | Lizard and ajmouth. “Sf°| lowed ashore until all these had been 700 SAVED AS SEAS BATTER WRECKS OF SIX OCEAN LINERS English Coast Strewn With Vessels in Distress, and Fishermen’s’ Wives Prove Heroines in. Rescuing Women and Children — From White Star Steamer. ~————— LONDON, March 18.—In a wild sea’ that threatens all. with destruc- tign, six steamships, including the White Star liner Suevic, the Elder Dempster liner Jebba and the British-steamer Newstead are ashore on. the English coast in the vicinity of Dover. The Suevic, from which nearly six hundred persons, Passengers and crew, have been rescued and the Jebba, from which 120 were taken ashore are on the rocks in sight of Lizard light. The Newstead is ashore off Cuckmere. Three other steamers are on the rocks off Rye, Dungeness and The Suevic carried 400 passengers and a crew of 190, They were rescued in boats. The children were carried through the surf by fisher- men and their wives who met the lifeboats off shore in water up to their arm pits. The rescue of seventy passengers and fifty of the crew of the-Jebba-was-accomplished-by_means_of_the-breeches-buoy,——_—_— All of the half dozen steamers in trouble ran ashore in a dense fog and high wind that prevailed along the southern coast of England last night and early to-day. ” Outside of the Suevic and Jebba there is.no information as to the safety of passengers or crews. The Newstead was bound in from Novossysk, Black Sea. Her position is very dangerous. Passengers on the North German Lloyd liner -Kaiser Wilhelm. I, bound from New York for Plymouth-and Bremen, had a rare and reo markable view of rescues from a shipwreck. The Kaiser passed close stern of the Suevic-at a tinte when THE WOTK Of ESC Was at Tis height. | he vessels were so elose together that the captain of the German vessel was able {o see that he could be of no a gers, many-of them: New Yorkers, had-a-view-of-the Suevic wreck and SEW TON Ir FAIR GROUNDS cue was attended with Se aerenie} tanger. — Mare thar sx score= of ther were babes in armas, ‘Withdrawal-of-E, M. Ery, However, Spoils Two- ‘Year-Old Event. Because of A high wind and heavy | that prevailed during the night was great y tha work of rescue, and the ot the l1ttle hina tog med AS boats erén the waves to 63 ; The Suevie— wis: homeward bound trom —-New--South——Wales ste —Cabe Town, There waa suelo heavy fos as she approached the Lizard Ight that vigatora lost thelr beatings. At | “she ran onto the Brand! joge under the ighthouse. rent up from (he stexmsstp Io. : summoned tugs and lifeboats from the Tt was seen at) ‘Fi nee that the big vessel was inal NEW ORLEANS RESULTS: Qangerous postion cmH” preparations| zich were made for renoving the pasrencers. | _gule tht swept waves across the deckstanayadtoriihatiraads navigation | largely guesswork jadded te the con- fusion, ‘The big lifeboats of the lifesavers on the coast-and of the ahip were used rexclagteety—tor the ~werebe—“otthes women and chiléren. No man was ai-" @ FIRST RACE—Cutter (11 to 5 and 4-t0-5)-4, -Ledy Carol-(18-to-1 for place) 2, Bazil 3, BECOND RACE—Mollle Montrose (2:to 6 and out) 1, Dew of Dawn (5) to 2 far placa). 2, a-Ledy Caroline 3: saved. ‘At 7 o'clock in the morning id he waa acting from | rely public Interest, {n- att Fated Slose Erlend. Mr, Jerome. ey ied Mr. Harlo’s examination and De. Lance: i nee stands Nicoll took the wits t fan at, "t did; DUL at tho present (i Anteroated in thor amayvent nts am | "Were you Interested in” ta “ politan ‘tail oad As 4 tockholder when nt Nt these. chas vad ext auostion, blithe rent] “I interested myself tn the matt tho request of the: Dist no af replitd the witness, tse Attorney,” | “Now, what” mat a Your disclonures to, Jerome? vate, Jamgen Tt Keane, mas an New ae Soba Ses mith Mr. Jerome's” Ranetion! Ab “You're not og Jeromp Nowe Are WOO? Dhine Met ees st the Metropolitan eat nitewanhed rt vhe protected. them ia Gol, ARiSny testified that ha James Ry Keene aovernl th told isin thie’ the atfalrn (of the} agp Bam nai tn ‘acocmplished thereafter with little dim- Wail a | then thronged. with ‘tt YoU, approached ‘after You had made wrecked THIRD mace=ae (7 to 10 and out) 1, Granada (2 to 1 for |place) 2, Foreigner 3, the foe lifted and the sea subsided somewhat. The work of rescue was culty, t By 1 P.M, all the parsengers had | NEW ORLEANS, March 18—Racos been landed, but some of the cfow were | began Mtteen minutes later at the Ful atill standing by the steamer, which will Grounds to-day and the post time from be a total wreck. » |now on will be 3.48 o'clocy Capt. Selby, commander of the Suevic, | time. ‘The cand torday wna excell | had been at sea for thirty-nine yearn, | lent | throughout. The races had a splendid [and this waa to have ben his last voy- class of entries and promlecd cleo ene age. | oota, ‘The North Gorman-Lioyd liner Iv The meeting between Mollie Montrose Withelm IL. during the morning pasasd and E. M. Fry aus looked forward to clove astern of the Syevic, which was | with a great ideal of interest, but the ngers, The withdrawal of E. M. Wry made the tal. steamer's bow was low in the emt delieve that Moltie would have a water, her fore compartments wore full pregtical walkover New York EVELYN THAW’S IS AT LAST 'D |D /MURDERED WN DISPUTE OVER Conflicting Stories Told of Murder of Herman Knewitz. According to the police an arrest wilt Probably be made within twenty-four hours in the case of Herman Knewitz, @ wealthy retired merchant, who was mysteriously murdered some {ime Satur- day evening in his apartment on the BecONa Noor or hs UII UT NO, BT 60,000 ESTATE EVELYN THAW’S ‘AFFIDAVIT — _REPRODUCED/ IN FULL. SUPREME COURT, COUNTY OF NEW YORK.) EVELYN NESBIT Against HARRY KENDALL THAW, Plaintifr, om Detenaant.| City and County of New York, ss.: Evelyn Nesbit, belng duly sworn, says: TI resido at the Savoy Hotel, Fifth-avenue and Fifty-ninth street, In the elty of New York. [-am-etghteon years of age, having been born on Christmas Day, in the year 1894. ~ 4 Lae several months prior to June,-1963, I had been at Dr, Bull's Hos- -pital|\at No. 33 West Thirty-third street, in this city, where I had had an operation performed on me for appendicitis, and during the month of June went to Europe with my mother, at the request of Henry Kendall Thaw, the defendant above named. My mother and ¥ had apartments at the Avenue Mantignon, in Paris, France, and from there travelled.to Boulogne, during which time we were accompanied by Mr. Thaw, Mr. Thaw left at once for London, England, while my mother and I pomalned at the Imperial Hotel about. three weeks. . _While the sald Thaw was in London he wrote mea number of Jetters. East One :Hundred and Sixty-elgnta Street. Detectives are making an in- vestigation of persistent reports that tne murdered man had been In trouble for several years with relatives over tne division of a. slater’ estate amounting to about 360,000, It is understood that Knewitz was never _satiefed with the manner in which the estate was settled and that he com. plained about an allowange, of $1200 4 year that was given to him by tho ex- ecutor, Peter Lawrence, of Mount Ver- Jon, hin _orothersin-Jaw. He then returned to Boulogne and took my mother and myself back to ‘Paris, where we stayed at the Langham Hotel. We lived there about two weeks, after which the sald Thaw, my mother and I returned to London, where we located at the Claridge Hotel—that {s, my mother and I lived at that place, while Mr. Thaw stayed at the carlton Hotel, in the city of London. My mother remained at Claridge's Hotel for some little time and then -Femoyed lo the Russell Square Hotel, In Russell Square, London. I.went|_ with Mr. Thaw to Amsterdam, Holland, by way of Folkestone, TRAVELLED IN HOLLAND. “I was 1 auring this entire period. Mr. Thnw_and..I.then_ travel: It Tells a, Remarkable Story of the Prisoner's Eccentric Cruelty While HUMMEL AGAIN IN Thaw’s twelve jurors today heard for. the first time the famous affidavit accusing Harry Thaw of named and nameless crimes which Evelyn Nee bit-Fhaw-says she did not make and which Abe Hummel says she did. FFIDAVIT She Was Traveling with ‘<" Him in Europe. “A SERIOUS POSITION, The Affidavit Is Signed by Him as Counsel fot 4 Evelyn Nesbit, Although He Swore a | Few Days Ago He Was Not Her Counsel, After a fight which lasted at intervals for more than a week, Harry, “It had been expected that the attempt of the defense to keep-the—~ a telltale document off the record would probably last through most of toe The reat of his share of the estate was held-in-tr-st-for-hle- daughters. ine police cay also that Knewltz was not on good tering with hin nephew, John J. cham ele oanivessorltht hla caret tevin Wiltamabrid S Knewltx retired with a compstency seven years ago, and for some time he had nct been tn robust health. Neih- bors ray that at Umea he was extreme- yan and that he was not always on the best of terms with other members of the family, : He was left alone in the apartment on Saturday afternoon, Mrs, Knewlta and the eldest daughter, Mtargaret, going shopping and the other daugh- ters, Elizabeth and Elesnor, golog to the friend, In Frankin-avenue for} a visit, © According to the statements made by Mra, Knewitz and Margaret they were the first to reach home, Elizabeth and ¥teanor following them tn-about-halt-« “Kour, at C0 P.M. On entering th: diniig-room they found Knewitz lying | on the floor near the couch’ where they had eft him several hours belo ~Fliey called him, but: got no respon: Then-tr-atann, the daughter rants the oMce of Dr. Eugene Monaghan, at No, 119i Boston road, und summoned him. He had several pitients (waiting and onty | took thm make a) cursory examina- tion of Knowis body, Me toid tne family that the mah had eppirentis died of A hemorrHage and directed that the Coraner be nptined of the case, But Dr. han was not — fulty eatisfled with his fret examination and Jater_made a more careful one He! then Tound® what appe: to be a deen} brulee over.the right ear and the right eye also was~swollen -ang discolored, He came to the- conclusion that Knew: + itz had been atruck on the head with | some kind of a weapon, and asked | Mra, Knewlts and the three daughters if they had found anything wrong In Ulq apartment on their return. They said that nothing had -bven’ disturbed, Dr. Riegkiman, Coroner's piyakcian, arrjved about 8 P, M., two hours after the discovery of the man's body, After making an examination and hearitis he report made by Dr, Monaghan he jemorrhage. whut appeared to be a brulee tn the right temple was In fact the wound of a bullet, and sho seemed to be pinnacted on the | FIRST RACE—Three- quarters of & mil rocks. | bare Ay pea The ad ‘As plenty of assistance was standing | [Ady Cs ‘carol, Got: Hone. ¢ ‘ by the White Star Ine steamer the | pepsle pea i Kaleer Wilhelm IL,° which ‘had been a 1 q going slow for ten hours owing to the $ fog, did net stop, but proceeded for Plymouth, where she arttyed shortly after 10 A. M. During the early morning hours, when the bay els were busy with the Sne- ; Jebba, bound for Plymouth io, utes went to the poanlng and won in with s Fost and “beat Baxi a ani fete oe for |, BUCOMD RAGH—Your and a half fur: ine wea - across the disabled steamer fon. Frhe Tere. af Taniate ed held | suicide. : Pl erect NS Sullivan immediately summoned Dr -Riegelman back to thé hotise by telP phone and the Coroner's phyatclart con- Armed the undertakor's report. Bingularly enough; the police got not the slightest hint of the mystertous caso Until Inte Inst night, nearly thirty hours after the \discovery of the dead min's & | body in the family apartment. Capt. Brennan, of the Morrisania station, and "Capt. Price, of the Bronx detective Bu- Teau, Immediately began an investiga, tign. They. took Coroner Schwannecke to task for his failure to notify them promptly, but he contended. that he did hot think there was anything suspicious about the man’s death until last night. He sald he thought it was a case of the aj to aaa te re Able ecw Ee “OL Nie wUTLErTH Ky, |” -one-entire -end-of -the-castie, consisting ot tea bedroons, ported that Knowits had fied of al. The body was then turned over to Ji W, Sulit an undertaker at No, 1222], Franklin avenue. Bullivan’ was not tovg in making the discovery that ‘throughout Holland, stopping at various places to catch connecting trains,!a half Attorney Delmas startled the other =e by si opposition and consenting tothe reading of the paper, which had-been— jput in Jerome's hand by Abe Hummel for the purpose of contradicting {the prisoner's wife in the most vital and essential parts of her- testimony. As Jerome drilled along through the various paragraphs of the af- and then we went to Munich, Germany. “We then travelled through the Bavarian Highlands, finally going. to the Austrian Tyrol. During all this (ime the sald Thaw and myself were known as husband and wife;:and were! represented by the sald ‘Thaw and! known under the name of Mr-and Mrs-} Dellis. Md day’s session. Butvafter the argument had gone vote for an hour and le nly dropping his: After travelling together abdut five or six weeks, the sald Thaw rented | 'fidavits Delmas’s purpose became apparent, for at, the very outset and 4 a castle {n the Austrian Tyrol, known as the Schloss Katzenstein, which ja! e{tuated about half way up a very Isolated mountain. This castle must have; been built centuries agg, as the ‘rooms and windows aro all old-fashioned. | When we reached there, there were a number of servants in the castle, but | tho only servants I saw were a butler, the cook and the maid. We oceupted | parlor aid ay drawing room, which were used by us. The balance of the by the sald Thaw, but was not occupled by us. pfor-my-personsh se — Tiwas assigned a bedroom The. first night we reached the “schloss'’’l was very tlred and went.to that upon the conclusion of the: trial Mr.- bed right after dinner, In the morning I was awakened by Mr, Thaw. pound-| haye Abe Hummel indicted for ‘perjury. i Although the affidavit had never been Tead—before; TUelpated hie and time again in Str Jerdme'a arguments, pers Met of alleged offenses against Thaw. Evelyn Nesbit in. Europa tm the defense now—claime Saying ner honorable court and seck- | {ng on the door and asking me to come to breakfast, saying the coffee was! ering -cold.—timmedtately-jumped out of-bed and hastily put_on a bath-| robe and slippers. [walked out of my room and sat down to breakfast with the said Thaw. el meen = THE FIRST BRUTAL. ATTACK, After breakfast the sald Thaw sald he wished tc tell me something, and. fisked me .o step into my bedroom. I entered the room, when the ald Thaw, without any provocation, grasped me by the throat and tore the bath- ing her hand fn Hono beat her repeatedly with a \ and w rattan cane, by his face that the sald Thaw was In a terrific excited condition and I was against His eyes were glaring, and he had inohis right hana A cowhide life. he # Twas powerless and ©" robe from my body, leavin me entirely nude except for my slippers, 4 saw terrorized. whip, He seized hold of me and threw me on the bed. attempted to scream, but the sald Thaw placed his fingers {n my mouthzand | fia tried -to-choke-me.— He then, cut and bruised. I~besought him to desist, but he refused. hausted that I shouted and cried. T was 80 ex- He stopped eyery,miuute or,so ta-rest, minutes. He acted like a demented man. servants coula not hear my gutertes) for the reason. that my -rarce sdld not penetrate through the large castle, and so'could not come to my succor, The (Continued on Second Page) eens Signs of Early Spring So to advor- \f The word 1, 784288 rj - gained von over last The Herald Separato advor- tisements from last year. LOST 1,603 Total Printed: WORLD, 28,602 ' Herald, 22,900... a WORLD «lead. 5,702 In columns THE WORLD gained 46; The’ Herald 1533. | pared that ati, Tie Cor communtcating with’ her mother, nally he tried to induce her to sign without-any provocation anc without the) statements falsely accusing Stanford slightest reason, began to inflict on me several sevéro and violont blows, White of having drugged and peroriged with the cowhide whip-So ‘brutalty~did-te assault-me that my skin waa ber_at the Ke- of fitteen—att of — : pelfi¢ Nesbit) Thaw's own narrative of what transpifod during ber memeieise—firat ‘and then renewed hls attack upon me, which he continhed tor about seven | tour of the continent wir Harty Thaw, | The introduction of the aMdavit com- 1 was absolutely {n fear of my life; the pleted the prosecutton’s case In rebuttal, | Just before the consluson'ot! noon session Delman reopened for the j defense by [record of the goayiction of Abe .Hum- for conspira | the two. amdavits V perjury and for procuring a hogus af faavit, which now hi head, the inte by the ald he has given Jerot Harry. Thi from: further punishinent for his ahare *FKUC inthe Dodge-Morsy Wiyorce scandal. | Qn tho ffty-nfth day since the trial of Harry Thaw began the proveeditigs opened in a debate as 'testimany of fwhieh Mrs,-Thasw ts jin 1M at Abo Humel's oMce again ‘her future-husband. mel Allenists for Defense. iN. Gavit, was par ino! Evelyn) Nesbtt's” ¢ 20) fManids, and dicre i Wal preaumed-to , At the counsel table af t prisoner | remain, Justice buileves Atums sat three hemcomers, Qe i Ne Must assume that the original Charley, Wy Piigelieral'reacdoat Many A, Government) Tasahe) ington, De Cy AR OTT i , WORLD total, 641; Herald, 813, { ‘Their presence was proof that Mar: ament followed. Wid tte singh exe! ( Thaw'y lawyers expected: to ofter my lon of the testimony - of amex Gin | More expert ‘testi! in’ supp i that’ Jerome had 9) “The World Is the FIRST News tori Newspaper! Fate eee cua nanzcia supp ath fon of i twice-again-in the body of the document Abe Hummel had admitted a that he was Evelyn Nesbit’s lawyer. 7 | | ANOTHER CASE OF PERJURY. This yas indirect contradiction of what AbesHummel stated on the j Witness Stan Tast-weety-wrhen-he-swore-that-he-bad-never- bad an y= Plevna house was rented | fessional dealings with the girl. After the court had adjourned for the noon recess, it was Teported — iid undertake-fo = Deli lay witnesses, as had been expected th some quarters. Negattves-of-the- “Affidavits ‘An soon ‘as Justice Fitzgerald eended the bench, Diatrict-Atto: was quoted as saying | Jerome and his assistant, Mr. Ga Th 163, at the very iad “a yttie conference, “Then “Mr, -he-—Was+-Jerome—offered—in—erhiencethe—brpken wlasa negatives of tho photographs which Abe Humsel had sworn herbad, en of the aMdayits which Evelyn” it made. fh div office In -October, after her first Waa from Europe. | ‘omie qualiiied thh saying Ho EB | y textred teas “el rdone only the ay photograph of the fifth or last page of ; the affidavit, since {t was this pheto- graph that showed Evelyn Weavst's ~~ signature, Air. Delmas otvected on. tha ground. that—the-original | allidayit -should —be— produced {€ the Intention was to im- Peach the statements of Evelyn Nesbit 7 Thaw, —He—heid,— moreover, that— Mra. | Thaw‘'s attention should firat be called | to the negative before an effort could Properly be made to get It to the Jury.” Affidavit Is Admitted, “I overrule the objection,” said Juss reerald, thug paying the way pletion of Abe. Hummel's Its-coritents had beer an- It-reclted“« tong able marriage, he! dog) whip he wronged her r wishes, te threatened her her Jewelry and her ready bly prevented” her trom and ] { indirect ~connict with” netsh Opens for the Defense. . the fore- reading to the jurors the the carbon copy javic which he had mele hands, Thereupon, the Justice with- Ho likewise read for subdornation of | > A onerc original fig ROt trom 1h ut Delnas’s the rui formlan ani over Huma «ing that Hummel, against Dimsele, os 5 5 z = = ¥, hopes to save position as a whole, Thaw'a beaver quoted autharts support 4s contention that Saks tate should produce the orlginal the amidaviy ua Ud best possible "he dald, By ever the admission the famous amdaylt ald to haye mado vrding to our textimensy! “the ‘alleged’ atuavit was burned) in jAbe Hurdmel s’ utice. According to the Plosecucul's lesuivuny the alleged a. = ‘ot Now York State Commission in Lunacy” and’ formerly Superintendent. of . thp | Hudson. River Hospital at ‘Poughkeeps: Dri Minas Gregory, In charge of the Ir sane pavilion at Bellevue, and Dr, Wilt theis In existence and can be produved, but tr Your lionor believes Mrs; Byelyn eabit Thaw, we must, assume -thitt: athe, pear was burned.” ice Iitagera}d: atill held that: “ne ipative was: admissiblh to” evidend ‘Thys strengthened In bts posittony atk While, Superintendent of the Asylum at Washi- < Thaw was insane itanford White, inatéad che detenana: tent oF