The evening world. Newspaper, December 20, 1907, Page 1

RN TTL OL POL ELT FEES U. Ss. COLE "Declires So- Cent Gas Law Wacenee tutional pieClelise & Bars Ahearn From the Board of Estimate Weel ratte cloudy to-night and Saturday. : [ “ Circulation Books Open to AIL” i [RESULTS EDITION me __ PRICE ONE CENT. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, ‘19073 et suas ere in VE GE Unconstitutional it Southern T: (WN (lt ENGE. oi OWeeeee Gn Gees 5 Be TAFT ON ARRIVAL. oo oe H. OliphantStoc! a eeateee Member, Dying of Wound In- pene of Referee Masten Is} Owners 4¢ Evening World’sInvestigator of Ward’s jiysitin nine Main | chycvin Bicone Net TELL H CHOICE tlicted by Customer, Who Re. 4 Island Abuses of Insane Virtually Particulars. L Bec or aine Wile, be lused we vettle Account. i pect Put on Trial by Stat ee T | pe 4 Ir Layyy ‘PRICE “ONE: CENT Sao AS oe ca Sept Ee a ‘The hearing before the ‘State Lunacy Commission to-day of the charges of brutality inthe Manhattan State Asylum for the Insane, pres ‘ ferred by The Evening World's investigator, Dr. John C, McCarthy, was scone in‘ a net in session long before it took the phase of an investigation of Dr) ae poate JAG John C. McCarthy. Lawyer Samuel S. Koenig, a Republican distri {Notebook Contained Incoherent Threats and b x |, Secretary of War When Asked y “Menace Against J. P. Morgan as a Man The Evening Wor: ) Name Who Would ‘‘Drive the Stock Market Favorite Says, “I'll Leave | to Wieck ana Ruin leader, assumed the attitude of a prosecutor cross-examining a witness ‘ S wit both ar 0 cused of acrime. RE Co . That to Inference. —- . There are three members of the State Lunacy Commission—Dr | °° he rate put fh Albert Warren Ferris, the Chairman, an intimate friend of Supt. Mabon, | n contravention to: { ot the ,Ward’s Island Hospital; Sheldon P. Viele, of Buffalo, a lawyer, prac and W! ilar \. Par Junge He - James H. Oliphant, head of fhe Stock Exchange firm of James H. When William Howard Matt landed on the soil of the United Stite i iphant & Co.,"of No, 20 Broad street, was shot and mortally wounded this afternoon by Charles A. Geiger, who immediately committed suicide. this afternoon after his one-hundred-and-twenty-day-trip around the Ming With the ques- rst, of Canandaigua. Mr. Viele was asleep during | i states he I planel, reporter tor The Evening World fired at him this leading ques- |The shooting occurred in Mr. Oliphant’s office op the second floor of the i i henehie eae gilt in Asst ow DAGE Puree $100; foursvear- 7 a er ‘ most of: the aes te on ie occasion, when his advice was | vic about 4 Apontercsed| 4 upnacil: welling: wx furlongs. tin? {Broad street building, which is next door to the Stock Exchange. anted ow a point of law, his associates had to wake him up. beatae au 5 {15 ws Trumper, 10) (Devariein, 7 to} and | Mr. Secretary, whom do you favo- for the Repub- | Mr, Oliphant was’ shot in the abdomen. Geiger blew out his brains Mr, Parihurat wan the only member |times recruited from rescue minsiona |uelraes | st 2 Bi, Muttades emer | Uaioe es fae the commission who evinced a desire | sheltering ex-convicts on tho Howery, | mnt A Hamotawae ive ata |» lican’nomination for President next yzar 2 ‘after putting a bullet into his left cheek te kot at the pottom of the syatematized | Lawyer Marks, resonti Mesth Donation Sha cHearticot, Hyas r 4 Pie oy “oye } ppl ‘wrutallty that prevails on Ward's Island | Carthy, faked Rha Commas ex-| i GASTRO AEE reine alte | “Boys,” said he, “I'l tell you about thai—I'il jus The only fatement Mr. Oli; phant made was to Dr. Baruch, of the Because of he utter lack of supervision clude theye atiendants) Dr. Ferria sad Yiseal THIRD RACE ! leave it to inference.’’ |Stock Exchange, the first physician to teach him. ‘ever the attendants by: the superinten- | t had, 4 rig to ba there. Mr, Park~ anes e Tre: the occurrences already related in) When Viele had been awakened a Prest 1, stow) ‘ent and his phywicians, hurst was ln favor of ¢: Ing them ee 3 ray dine 1 PIM Ok poet an mrp oses, a 3 “That man,” said Mr, Oliphant, referring to the corpse un the floor Swore to Story of Abuses. © They looked to thelr lawyer-associate LL todd and ft fight (nf inwitting “game of hide and | LON Dr. McCarthy was swori at the| on the Oommission for advice, but Mr. |i) POH Wa Teiett, As Fol seek with a tot of unha wepaper | | rae his by, “owed us money, and | demanded it, Mines Viele was deap in slumbe: ‘San I ¢ F mn # it i SPE : * : 7 ; ; opening of the proceedings. He testified | deep in nber, an acters : 5 men, America's big War Se ry and H ' | Geiger was a well know figure in Wall street. He was six feet tall, Globe Girdling Plenipotentary Extraor- Hi nikon thie dindry atariial fore Washingtoieat 117 { finely proportioned and wore a neavy black mustache. At one time he~ wnt wasp oM, First, though, he gave out an Hi yWwas connected with the British Army in the capacity of surgeon. He interview In which, sktilcally avoiding returned to New York a few days ago from an extended visit to Hot fee Evening World—the continual; the situation was explained to him, | OFsE y brutality, tho slugging and “hanging.” | he deckied that the attendants shuld the neglect, the “doping and the ab-jretire. The} retired to wie corridor, | 7% gence of any sort of nystematizxed mod-| but remained within sarshot. Mr. Jude igh speaks of feal treatment of the patients, He told | Koenig! ‘proceeded with his carefuitly [Deink i contravention of t : references to politics and. to hin ° i of seeing one patient slugged and eager platy to discredit the witness, and ; teenth Amendment. By that he means Presidential boom, he. extolled Gs yi Springs, Ark. His home was in Beaufort, S.C. In this city he stopped other patient choked into insensibility} Mr. Viele, < ‘x himself more /that the law or x t | | an rule in the Phiilipines, spoke : Holland H A ‘ 7 with a towel before he had been tn the | comfortab!) hair, went to sleep [cents for private 1 secs | er thusineticallymorhihermendineno’ our | | at the Holland House. ss institution as an attendant six hours, | again. i jond the law providing he City of} iputhelLanivosisalde iheliyapaness | 1 The tragedy occurred just after the * It wax full of incoherent en- vand was asked why he did not tmme- Examiner Antaggnistic, pNew York ax a ° should be eiifriendlmetoliin ann tcaatatews! 8 [luncheon hour, when Broad street unong them this siblale rep-rt these matters to the au- WhED OES arnished wit AL NoVentY-‘lwe cents: stbal bouquets at his old. friend, the | ate [Wall « and all the #kyscrapers in ; J. Plerpon Mossan {x a man who will orities. suipably per thousand for public . m nd ew friend Zar, | z © financial districts were humming | drive stock market to wreck and Del lcCasthy, replied that he tm |crossctire of Mr Koeple. ! dhe Nags j Mikado, and wisn Wr sont auleeeraat | AEG VeSEIReCOVOIIA TILL C\VOMe innit inanutteonnalteedo mannii mide tcl pees : : Tthe asylum by Even, | MY, told of the bratal treat at thy ring, of Judge Hourh).war The Secretary's Arrival. en ut ak th heen sent to the asylum. b: Sa Ie fhe Nos a iM " ' Was indicated \ id-street, a few doors south | A letter found in the notebook prob- die of 1 ing World for the purpore of making | hnd truck. in the, fi stock Aurel. | when. ,Urvoklyn With the Secretary when he arrived} Stolen From the Amerie thorough Inve on of ce oiie occasion, the doctor re : THHISEGR Gn RoU RET crea Nun Aart on tie steamship President Grant, of! th reeard to ic treatment of the in | vere x dndicted in the man MAHAR SERUM LC Latter Cons) the Hamburg-Americ rane. He felt that it would take at) Washroom wad hethed the wound, snl : ss : H ub Hote prea ahr crea papbrgneg area tant om ita Uthed the wound, and je ! | 1 were hin | ca ndant led the man to the | Charles, who have bs tation and could not see hia way] hospital, whe ! | esyear-old son a artes, wh bis companions | ht Ku Kl HEH a Ble CEL Verom’ the time te left. San eanelece e Ml his work by making panded Up, Wien tence ; rales Clana Ree retprart ‘ou dki not report this to you su- . | early fy the fall, and LirigieGen, © I from the Jersey Humorist’s Breakfast Food| Hdwards, Uo 8. A: Director of the Bus sn xprems « reau of Ingular Affairs, who likewise jundreds of curb brokers | MOY explains the crime. It was from eg (iteee ROUBT dated Dec. 4 and’ ad- sx and frolic | dressed to Geiger at the Piedmont Ho- | t district in] ths The letter read: f ‘Dear Sir: W: not send vou. $230! ‘ on wer Tear ombination’ of ou: to the Wall © holiday season (rays al vunt, ax you request. Your funds to vour credit, — Ix simply a running account. Ve must usk you to protect your + Shots Caused Panic on ‘Change. Mr, Oliphiar’s: priy stmet front of t , iors?" asked Mr. K x ¥You folt that you owed allegiance tal? NCVER ee pea es “The Evening World and next to the Why don't you ask,” interposed Law- i Gave Wwarerecveredi: toed 1 suite ¢ pount by putting up more margins. si i e are ani a) ry ; around the globe. in ‘ 1 The sn) of th x ; i i authorities hore?!-asked Dr, Ferris, ker Marks, “what war the condition of Concern Is ee For- | ent wlthitdim’around the tobe. ¢aY | RCS MaRS Sia im. 7 at BY this we mean thyt your account has he elrcumsiances 1 felt that} fie man when sDr. MeCarthy lett the At Qlarititine Qie incoming ship was Ice box ja a Jersey rene vas plainty rd in Bre Cneentio ? “Under th hospital: i Xhere was any scar. or hot : bythe Governinant..tugh Geis Joo! oie | 1 eae not been Kept up and, if sold out to-day way.” answered the witness Koente followed tie lint and @is wile } mer iS met ty rihe Govern WE, Gen Joe The boy who stole Liem was Ur away us Wall street SAAC eA Taisen PRE MIRE IE Went About. His Duty. Teas pRNEs Jahinwon, On poard the tug were the $95 i, unomnar young” man an bh ie oor ofthe 8100 | ge : ow; if Y" ase a Hy Rave «a R20 mom) collar, hor i Basie vith the: Iden! of making Weainaiceas : : F yer: Robert 7 jcBrotara RON Urine peutua iar oti Mots had ni died Insistec on Interview, An Aivessiee Hon Ae wee had cs he stiteh and} Ry i qe 849) Willlam Howard Talt and Mix Joulse | store Hiroaa sirect was packed 5 Now York In response EUR ear eh cadiny aan hee thet ti emake Stalrar ty f Taft in neplifw and ot ANAL om i cur ty curb wifian exetted mob] to thie letter, after further telegtapt asked Mr. Koonts, who was. reading ; ei Ratan Cee OOCR ein Plasman| Mars Jullet. df Petham Manor a close] ka und mosmon-| corres . . ; from: ,)/ document that had evidently f | friend Except for the recent bereave- i h-Jeorrespondence, Ile appeared at the bea 1 with eo care. patlin’ who. became a the CSinpany of Semrica. of No. 2 Stone f i « wid camors were Oliphant offices ahortly before nopn to: + ben propired with some care | pecititarty: ugly: moods 0 ttendants | ment’ in tie family the recention party | Was reported that. manlact day qd spoke ta Bloyd ‘Mundey, a isha a Ae heey f that on the afternoon | GIICAGO, Dees 2—A shary ex: Sanvel Lb. have een much larger. I Ne A thaaea af calesciorn' | Goa cannamete koe lsd Mundaza is {tor of ‘The Evenin id," ho replied ns Rnitorturn i : ete : a helpers D pe: Mr. 3 “After that talk I came here with the| by the x1 deacri S exposures | change of words took pace to-day at} > nega Up the Bay on a Tug one lwagona of th nk ferred blnvto Mr. Oliphant, and Geiger {dea of making an Investigation — {neta even Dea e “Ihe | the amunl meeting of the Tlnols Cen: | going efary and Mrs. Taft and Master | company t ayo contair A rush {0 wontlintolthe privatarortice left the steamer at the Quarant ne pb Mee, under the IM! jie was Informed by Mr The Plasman © HY Was organized | one but the ed-litttia lunatic four thn “Dit you talk to ns a tral Raiirond Company, between, Presi: | it Je “itor of The Evening World about it? harks on hik throat . va 3 bi fy six years aot for t nanufacs | stdtion and went-aboard the tug. whlch | Communipaw ast Satu {the shooting had occurred | that his account was in danger and that sontinurd Mx, Koenig. StS DAE Vagos cue G dent Harahan and. Stuyvesant Blak, Vise of a patent breakfast food: After | tmunediately headed up the bay. TAC) rernoon, and he wis the Ind whos luniess he 2.100 he would be “L couldn't say that there we: The! Willlam Nelson Cromwell. act for hone: si rt = . : i, Af ihe fet) ‘ . {Not that L recall.” ‘Hanging’ didn't leuve any marks’? ibveiite Mferat an amendment (2# oretnization the American humorist | Sécretary and his brother drew ADArU | ine 42.0% pearl necklace to Louis Puk | In the mean tin be sold ou sajd he would «a ope, Mofurthy had previously testified Reseed ibn SARA) te ST RIee ealonen ene Aeectiae Lwax induced to purchase almost half} while Henry Taf told the details of |e, the jitte chan emplos the Letonant_oitive ad rusted, out and see what he could do, JH On on adjou es meet 4 oth 4 t mer! They found i iat hehat worked as an attendant . i ; is roetiné the stock of the company and wax| the fast hours of thelr aged mother, factory ne Amerk at Bloomingdale Asylum for cight]| DIDN’T NEED ANY tonal And’ Mr.) Fish’ protested | nage iia, vice-prest It was not! Mra, Martha Taft, who died a few days Company. (or twontystive ce sien tse spare that Mr. Cromwell was not a stock- > Wy : long afterward tat his venture wore | ago at ner home in New Englacd He had s BRAINS HERE, LUT |holder. Mr, Cromwell declared that , 2 Sete - , he held a proxy and while it was belne [AMYUDINE Init, R humorour view Secretary had been Informed by ca] piecen of Je Ht in vain to sell tf othe yp small sums 4 more mags his way private’ oftias Mr months and at Bellevue in the psychy- pathic warf--for four months, Mr. Koenig axked hin if he Khew a man HAD TO HAVE CASH ‘ib 8 <1 He fovnd that un effort waa being! o¢ (he death “as he left Bowogne,|~ Koredtis 4 die to tae tac. |swo bullet wounds In Miphanvs wnw | iene’ tn aay ‘amped Collins, an attendant at Bloom: | * HOURS (ote ae aah etd i saan made to xqueeze him out, which hefvut ne nad not pefore learned thy (ui ue Sain c A = bare Matera tstcr ingdule. Dro MoCarthy sald he knew | 7 T we ts foligat vigorously. Just how much] circumwtances Of the venerable lad Crom ay Ba ne rerootin ay Oltnh Vy oitehed sh argam: ( lwele Out tn Chicago George Ade fs rein- | Pe aranan Upolared shat he) MOM he tnvested In the concern tis] laxt ineas, He waa much affected, Gusers pucket 3 aaa ae pire cared 16 Vo disptting some, statemens 4Now, thon,’’ safd Mr, Koenig trium-|ting the experience of a friend who ‘ M omer agent refused to say. It had been the original inte nto Hoth jada w A si Iepreswed | UY Min Ouphant and nanding tigore wes phantly, “didn’t you tell Collins that |has jum arrived from New York. upeesis pet i Fs SS i anes ®| “pho sult In bankruptey, which waa be-[tand the tug on the Jersey City aide. | munipaw onice of firing ihe apo br Reene yeu were going to write up your ex-| The friend, whose name is Hoffman, | steokhol Sere a litae he ta a atock. | SU8 48 quictly as possible, wan insti-[ 40 that Secretary Taft might eo [wo out eae tie, mua sand Are ULE Nea tare aches curhersiatenn ca tut n rsation periences in some inatitution and sell | wax inspecting the back streets of New foal a chr tokens ek “| cuted “by-fonmer. officers of the company | FAIRE aboard the special car of the | hit Biol, st Noung): Pukelt | ee oor her ee and. tig fand: then tne tlerks three them to a newspaper, and didn't you | York at-3. o'clock In the morning. He | holder when I tell you he ls not? with the intention of winding up its af-| Pennaylvanin train® that was waltlag | oot. Wl ou oy who [itee made r AnOHeE ASIN E eG ne rue eanitawe ihe ohotiths: Gsk him what Inmtitution would be|was fddenly etopped by a highway-| President Hamhan replied that he was! ? |! to tnke him to Waauingion, But on| fii) the necklace ait Jaimie sent the iyutler | fon Seine Perea aye the best to ket your material: from?” |man, who ordered him to throw up his | not compelled to take the word of Mr.) °° — the way up the river he learned that] the driver. HAH a | Threat: Against Morgan Aaty nod fron Hudson ("1 did not" responded Dr, MoCarthy | hands, Fin for everything, He declared wat ‘5 the reporters who had gone to Quar- e pilvoters admitted the pos | Pu PeUIE lesa An Gelgeem itiosicel fospitat Jed bros ‘pmphatically. “Gimme your wioney or-TN blow out|he Intended to treat Mr, Fish properly,| CARS FOR M’ADOO TUNNEL. | antine on the coxter, exnegting to [of tie Jewels, and youn Wh REN ee Maa AS amas “What: were your Ideas at that | vour—branis!” demanded the thug. and demanded like treatment In return, meet him there. would be disappointed | detpctives to his tom ae time?"* asked Mr.” Koonig, "Go unead and shoot,” replied Hort- | ‘To this Mr, Fish replied warmly: tears Ti Vehinienh Lowered tints |iene left i ones 20 ie oecided 2, Ooms Uesudy prper amid He $ aes " a " “About tho care and treatment of the|man. philosophically. "A° man can do] ‘Well, then you better kep a clvii acrosn vo the Twenty-third street ferry | pox. They were 4 i j j Fe PRICE. Insano my {day wero necessarily | without brains in this town, but he | tongue in your head’ -Tahe at Hoboken, In order to xlve the reporters a Chance ae }MEN’S MELTON OVERCOATS WOMEN’S SUITS HALF PRI ideal." replied tha witnoss. can't+do without mony. i “My tongue te civil," replied President] open cars for th McAdoo tunnel, | @ #¢# him. SILK LINEDSOVER- | AT HALF PRICE AND LESS, ined Attendants Glare at Witness, C) kermremmemm eae Tie Harahan. tor Mr. Fish..stapped in| Whote Manhattan, end ts at Chrtstopher Plane Changed Again COATS GO CHEAP. mulher Higsanine none While Dr. MoCarthy hod been testi- Nottied in the Country, front of him at thea moment and the | atreet, arrived ib HOE Jae nlite! ut juat_ then bi peels i Ueetlor mide 6 pL Gatien f a cident wits id wore lovctel into the tunne)® to- Sieh ry a ve ss. Newia fying, the room had been steadily fll-| No pegulutions used 0 the petri tater ft Waa ascertained that oxi |40l ™ mts) change In the plana, Gen, Frederick D.| 4. iing’a, Gore Vil Ay, and 2 ML. BE a Ee eel {ng up with attendants In uniform.) tore comprehensive and rigid in thelr | Cromwell possessed &. proxy. and (hol oie care resemble the wnbway care in] Grant, commanding the Department of | \ ohance ‘wld Ito get a swell Gay und to-morrow 6it- fal ‘Thay tormec-in rows and glared at the |enforcement than: the Borden sanitary | mocting wis ogerdnely adjourned un-|, general way, hut they” have pide] the Bast, who had boarded the tug, told | ilk lined overoos $32; Aloltons, | eet silk’ ined) Melton cand. Kersey | dourle. Pus nih witnees. Looking them over, It was not “You -are honestly served by Bor- | tl! March % jours, which will be operated bY xuards | Secrotary Taft that he had arranged aj Movles and Fancy Grays Inciuded ene at At $3.80, value $20, also gray 0) ORI NGs, cor. A : peat ‘ c 1 jot worth &8. KING'S, corner 6th Metravienatead gift tow Pure Milk:and Cream, fresh from at the end Sar the cart by meannot this I ries KING nd Lfyoebes ty delieve that, the attendants at jairies, delivered in sterilized glass |EVAN'S ALE EVERYWMERE,| compressed air. The cars are sald to a av. and 234 street, Open evenings until ‘Open evenicgs unt!] Cihristmiaa, te Open evenings un! Se Ward's Island Asylum are some- Bottles, s ted in ERE) ma! < fat hei furensood, zi _ Continued on seoond Page. <i Christmas, “at — a a e ‘