The evening world. Newspaper, December 19, 1907, Page 4

_ HAD PISTOL AND POISON WALKER, A WRECK, FOUND NOVEL . Fugitive Cashier Tries Suicide i, When Run Down -by : Pursuers, 4h ‘Awaits Transportation in Mis- . erable Cell at Mexican ,/Camp. (Special to The Evening World) | LOS ANGELES, Doc. 19.-In-a dirty “ Mittie’cell In the Mexican jail at En- wenada, Lower California, William F. (Walker, absconding treasurer of the @avings Bank of jNow Britain, Conn, fo held prisoner awaiting transportation to the scene of his crime. Far back in the tnountains, 100 miles from:Ensenada. ths Easterner-was cap- tured by a Pinkerton detective two Gays aro, after he had been tracked for the past ten months, Walker is almort'a wreck. His nerve is gone. He mutters when he talke and trembles when any one addressea him. From the epick and span banker of the East he has become the hunted man of tho mountains, with eye trained to catch @he frat glimpse of his pursuers, with @ar awaiting the sound of .pursult. He is like trapped animal—sullen, careful when speaking 4 At Ensanida the man attempted to @void the searching questions of the ®inkerton operator, and finally edmit- ed that he was the Willlam Walker wanted! {n the East. With /downcast eye tle man who Is alleged to have -@scaped with more than $520,000 made the confession of his identy, Denies His Guilt. *T am the man you want,” he sald. “Tam William \Walker, but I never took thost' securities, I took nothing that did not belong to me. I have no Mooney now. 1 have no securities. Do ‘what you will with me, but 1 will Bever admit doing what I did not do." Walker will begin his" long journey Back (o face his accusers to-day. He} Will be brought across the line by Pinkerton men and to Los Angeles. The report of the capture was re- @eived by Supt. Balley, of the local Pink- erton office, to-day and he Bave out the first authentic news of the successful termiinution of the long search, Accord: tng to his statement Walker would make no statement of the details of the - @harges against him. ‘The accused man will be hurried Hast as soon as requisi- tion ‘papers arrive. The arrest was mad@ by the Pinkerton detective with the ald of the Chior of Police of En- @anada, and a posse, Back In the mountains, {n one of the moat God-forsaken spots on earth, Walker had been living the life of a Fecluse. No one knew his business at the little mining camp, His companiors were peona. The white man in charge @t the camp knew Mttle more than that Walker’ was travelling, and not for his health. He asked no questions. It is unhealthy: to ask questions from strange men in the Ensenada country. Lived Like Wild Man. + Toe man like Walk f who had been used to luxury, who had spent his life [Trapped in-Coal Laden Craft ___ THE EVENING WORLD, FR DRUGGED BY MAN 1 Stxty-Knot_Submarines and 30, , : Will Fight Naval Battles AND MISTREATED, ‘WOMAN CHAREES of United States Brewers’ Association, Gajlux Thomann, secretary of the| United States Brewers’ Association, at | No. 109, Hast’ Fifieenth street, was. on trial to-day Jn’ the Court’ of Special Seanions on a charge preferred by Agnes Ehman, aj buxom, hendsome young woman, why tives with her moth- qr, dirs. Mary Enright, at No. 24 West Gud fumired and Eighth street. She} acousea him of enticing her to.his rooms in the Hotel Hungaria on a day last May and drugging her with wine, which rendered’ her semi-conscious and utable to reaist him, ‘Thomann Se 6 years old, tall and thin. ‘He wears a crop of jet black hair of remarkable volume for a man of his age. In his own def@hse on the stand he entered a general denial of the charge. Miss Ehman and her mother have two élyil sults for damages pending against him. They were represented in the Conrt of Special Sessions by en Assistant Corporation Counsel, who fald that Thomann has a wife and son in Germany. where the won is a stu- dent in Heldelberg ‘University. Miss Ehman swore that shi'met Tho- inann in the summer of 3906 at x hotel in the Catakiilz, where she waa stop- ping with her mother, Upon her return to New York she continued her ac- quaintance. At intervals, she said, 5) visited him in his apartmenta at the Hotel Hungaria ‘and partook of din- hers, but his secretary, Miss Ford, was always present on these occasions. Qn May 10 tast, she said, he tele- phoned to her and asked that. she call at the, hotel to get a box of ‘candy he tary would be there, When she reached his rooms the secretary was not in sight. } Thomann, she said, handed her a glass | of wine, which she drank. It had aj bitter taste and she soon lost contro! of her faculties. While in that state, | she sald. ‘Thomann took advantage of| her helplessness. ( Mrs. Enright testified that her daugh- ter told her what had happened in Tho- mann’s rooms as soon as she reached home. A doctor whd was called in at the time was also a witness. NAN AND WIFE DROWN AS BOAT —_SINKSAT PIR as She Quickly Goes to , the Bottom. ‘There I a canal boat resting on the bottom of the river at the Battery sea- wall, and fn it for many hours wero the} bodies of the skipper, Jerry Vanhaden,} fn the crowded highways and byways of the Bast, the life of the mountains was @ bell on earth. The food was coarse, | the®coumry wild, the men unsoctable inclined to be brutal. He alept in| @ filthy hovel on unclean bedding. To his hip he buckled a heavy re- volver, Jt (was to be his last resort, si (Hie carried 9 small bottle of poleon In his chip pocket. His resources were wonc, If he was captured he caw only | one ending, that was death, The Pink-| @rton operator knew of these things and| for the Whitehall Building. | tata unloading they hitched took no chances, ‘The Chief of Police and his men rode! with him. They went deep into the! mountains, through Smugglers’ Where it is unwholesome {or officers, and on into the deeper canyons, and Ap the little mining camp of Bal. / The wound of the upproaching horses @rove the fear of capture deep into the heart of one man in that camp. ‘He “tm his hand a man came running from ‘One of the noarby hoyels. The Pinker- ton*man saw him and levelled his re- wolver. But the nerve of the man before | Woman EW BRITAIN, Conn., Deo. 14.—The Bewa of the arrest in Mexico of William We Walker, who stole over hale a’ mii- | any cries from the couple, who lived in Rass, | patte: Bare-| her to the bulkhead were drawn i headed and with hid revolver clutched | showing that the Neville hi and his wife, Mary. Nobody canal bot go down,'and nobod Miss Ehman Accuses Secretary |_ These New Types of War ships Will Be Smokeless, Silent and, Strangest of All, Will Use Alcohol for Their Motive Power. ’ i » Forerunner of the’ Swift! Submarine Class Which Is to Revolutionize the Navies of the World, Now Under Construction at Tottenville. The naval battles of the futa be fought between hulking fimt battle ships of 3.000 tons or_mare dine placement and creepy little sibmari fitted with hydroplanes that will rend them skimming like fying fish at the steel gJants, afdotren, when thelr tor- pedoesl_have struck home, they will dive under the water and come uo at a safe distance ready for more deadly work. ‘ Tho specd of those little mosquito scouts will be sixty knots and over, The spend of the battle shins they cons voy and owlll be from ten to twelve knots less, The torpeio of e future will be a ght one— pounds—end carry @ charge of fifty pounds piosive, Stranges: of all these battle er the years to come will be alooho! ¢ vis Nixon. the famous marin: nd inventor 4 of ar craft, declared to an E ing World reporter to-dat ‘that Now under constrictlen in his shops at Tottenville a small vessel in? the neiehborhood of fifty tons that wil! 8 water at sixty knots or! a shade lows.’ Her motive power will] be ras. and her sanzune creator rays | sho Jn the forerunner of the new type} whips that are to come, had promised her, He said his secre- | Smokeless, Swift, Silent and Deadly, } Those who looked at tures of the depart few days aro and, raw what a tremendous smoke cl abips under way roll wp, w whet ai c/ivantage will acct te t nation that first «oes into battle wi Ras or alcohol:driven engine T! huge smokestacks necessary to creat> draught to keen the cuage jumping On the hith pressure boilers. will be missing, Those warships of to-morrow) will be. low in the water, swift, silent. deadly. Close behind them, like norpoises hay- Ing fun with a school of sharks, will come the little hydroplanes. all ready to dive beneath the surface on thelr nowwpaper pic-1 Gen fest al maelves DECEMBER 19, 1907.1 THURSDAY, 000-Ton Battleships Franklin Simon & Co! of Future, Nixon Says 1 “THE STATIONARY CRUSADER.” “President Roosevelt; ‘FOLLOW ME’ (or 35,000 Words to That Effect).” errand of destruction at firat sight of the enemy, or prepared to hod: on-and be bay aboard their battles con- sorta {n case of bad weather. Mr, Nixon was shown a newspaper article quoting Lieut.-Commander G. C. Dayvison’s opinion that before lone we shalt Ye mo mote battle-rtps, and arine will {ake their places.+ ps will be designed lon Daviron ls gathered to his fathers." said Mr. Nixon, with a smile. “There undeniably a fleld. however. for vast improvement in the torpedo as a weapon. In fact, I may say that @ surface (hip of uteat speed. ‘armed solely with torpedoes, will be a factor’ to be dealt with in the wars of the future. “The submarine of to-day ts sluggish and clumay. Then, too, the problem f Ught under the surface Is vet to be solved. Under present conditions would be Impoestble except under the Most {nvorable conditions, to launch a torpeilo effeciively from a submarine} beneath the surface. There, are several reasons for this. one of which. as I ald.4s the almost total darkness after Mr. the tiny cabin. A diver entered the! [afterhold this afternoon and rescued the solely of engines ufMctently erful two, dead. They had ben drowned inj to drive St at’ any speed if ached thelr beds. | beneath the surface The bost was the Anni and she belonged to M. 1. No. 1 Broadway. She came Ambo} yestetday with 27 B. Noville, | space detw 3 0.1, only a few yards from the Park police sub-station. The captain and Mra, Vanhaden were en! known to be aboard at bedtime, About) {1 o'clock the watchman on the old discovered that the boat hud disap- peared. The four Hnes that had leid not ¢ adrift, but had sunk. It was supposed that she sprang a bad leak, and in heavily loaded condition want dow: quietly and quickly. thut the man no Opportunity to him had gone. He guve a cry of horror) OM#el¥e®. at sight of a White man, spun about! on his heels and ran with a queer shuffling galt toward his hovel. Getoctive had nim in a dozen Jumps. At the fast minute Walker attempted suicide, First he mado » valn attempt to press the revolver to his breast. He mwas disarmed after a xhort strugzic, Watching the detective closely, the ac- oused man drew a Sinai} botile from bis pocket and attempted to.drink from At. Was overpowered a second time. No Securities Found, Hie hovel was searched, but the miss . ing securities were not found. He had nothing either in the hovel or about his person which could have! identined him. He might fiave died on/ the trait and beei eAten by coyotes and no one | ever Geen the wiser, o -He had souglit to lose his identity in @ farcom land and jad been successful up to thé poillt when the Pinkerton agent traced him to the border ing Walker ucced like a man in a dreare, - On & small mountain ponyr between two Mexican officers; :e made chs fone Jourhey back to Ensenada, watched day @nd Hight and always under the close rvision of the detective, To-day he fa but the pithable wreck or a man. HOPE TO PROFIT BY WALKER’S ARREST. ey Socialists to Sccre Gen. Funston, Socialists’ national campalen will with a (mass-mect- All the leading appear and wiil 101 issues. One of al topes of discuseion slik be the situation at Goldfield and Gen, Funston will comd jn for a drubbing. E Be ry |tlon dollars from the Savings Bank of | New Briain, of which he was treasurer, [tas created great Interest hore, and the loutcoma of his trial and that of some of his confederates promises to uncover | startling facta, It was learned to-day thay the bank offitals expect fo recover the missing securities of the savings bank. There are $10,000 worth of Eastern Iiinois Railroad bonds, which have never been er knowns where vhey ure, Nbw that Walker has beon cavtured, tt ls stated j that he will be the principal witness of the Gondort case, which ts asaigned for triul In New York in January, ‘Gon: dort ts an alleged wirb-thpper, who Was arrested some time ago in connection with the Walker case, Walket'a arrevt should also lead vo the arreat of ix number of confedes Aton © oiticlals of the Sayings New Britain were informed yesterday that Walker was willing to return with- OUl the necessity of extradition. To-day the officials say they have word that not so tractable. - easurer Btaniey went to Hartford this afternoon to confer with State's Attorney Exgteston regarding the stepa to be taken, towant bringing “Walker Saat, provided the former bank o refuses to come this way! without the necessary papers, b hor | of there unc negotiated, and it te thought that Walk- | Bank of} er waters Again, there ta the resfet- ance of the water to overcome. The torpedo would have to consist aimost New Type Submarine, Too ~The be to dellver a tori e surface. ‘The subma future whl immense surf 1 only dive as a mains on or escaps, Halt a dozen of{ n craft attacking a Hattleship would give her a torriule t for her | {; would be like a terriers Worrying a } bull. The torpedo itself will not the present hall, 1 believe. ‘carrying & explosive, sitxy knot way ot evol wak Jalcohol, Gas engines. however. be aosten’ In the right direction. modern, warshin fs most heavily mored About her rooms. ‘These are he the Wersted Slippers, . Leggings, ne and Patent Leather, Rubber Boots, .. .' Not Open | ” Sixth Avenue and Of the fzht, complicated parts of wif poine some day, and as jong THEUMTED STATES Giits tor Girls & Boys Felt and Comiy Slippers, % House and Dress Slippers, tn Kid Boys’ High Cut Grain Storm Shoes . A large Stock of Women’s Boots, regular andhigh cut, Alexander and she is o maze of pipes, t steam ne. this cause. blow struck ho! contribute to bide Sut of business and w With eg your ngines There are few parts, | ty, boller room and ne A ‘few men tend the eacines in com: tive comfort, “From the stundpoint of econortiy, the ture power will be kas eng! The Feport of the United States C logcal Survey points out that if Kaa | Wan aubstitited for coal on our ba Milde’ the saving Would be 61.00.00) ver | ‘im, 32K for alcoholdriven engines, they | swe Have a sun to Induce fermentation we will be able to get alcohol in unestimable | quantities. Isbelfeve the day ts coming | when every fire will be run and every Mghting system operated by al ‘The gas-driven warship is heres Within the next twenty years we ahalfsee radical changes In naval con-| struction and seas will be Aled awift, smokeless, formidable war craf and the nation that, gets them first will be on the top of the naval heap,” WIRELESS PHONE FROM IRELAKD (0 Dec 19.—A Say “shall service en a wireless’ teleplions ica, via Ireland. in E to he ti -75 to $1.00 75 to 1.00 ($1.25 to 4.00 - . 1,25 to 3.50 cee 2.00 to 3.00 4.00 i | | Evenings Nineteenth Street | Umbrellas ‘for Gifts | Leather Giits trayeting Bags Bi =e ge ¢ RSS “ SonDaniel\ SonstSous BROADWAY, 8TH AND 97H STREETYS. | Special Xmas Gifts. | >» Women’s & Misses’ Neckwear Values Unequaled Elsewhere. | Solid Gold Brooches...1,25, 1.50 and up to 115.00, Gold Filled Bracelets, 1.50, 1.65, 1.95 and up to 4.50) Gold Filled Festoon Necklaces, 50¢, 1.00 and up to 7.95 . 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