The evening world. Newspaper, January 18, 1908, Page 1

EXTRA GREEN EDITION. | | i} 1 KNICKERBOC DEPOSITORS & TIMEFORACTIGN = Court Granis Two Weeks Longer to Make Arrange- ments for Reopening. OLD BOARD IS TO QUI Says There Must Be Practical Unanimity Among Depositors | to Warrant Resumption. Justice County Supreme ¢ to-day granted the Mitte of t! pany plans for reopening th Bourne and Sat positors unied in that the Knick slit two weeks lon resume business and submit phowlng that the the $41,000.00 on dep wlosed have assented te tion plan. About $1,000,000 in asse | Bertain conditions, Some will not be effective until 9% per cent. of de- posits are pled ueme, others d to the wantll % per ¢ not until the deposed. Must Put Up $2,400,000. It was announced that the resigna- fons of all the members of the old pledx board of di 1d Board of directors are in the hands off, very trustees of the depositors’ wommitiee, to become effective at any time suggested by the Court. In re- @ponse to an inquiry made in court, Gustice Clark announced that the $2,400, 000 pledged by the stockholders must b paid in before the doors can be re- @pened. In granting two wecks additional time for the reorganizers to complete their fhe voting gaan Justice Clark sald that there must) be a practical unanimity of consent and Bssent, He does not consider it wise to @llow any considerable percentage of fhe depositors the privilege of swooping @own on the bank on the opening day Bnd crippling it from the start. “gurely the showims made to-day,” paid the Court, “is ntore than enough fo justify a continuance of two weeks. Bt goes without saying that the gaining of the las % per cent. of assents Is more laborious and difficult than the waining of the first 75 per cent. “gome of the depositors are doubtless holding out in the hope of receiving ash. It is very doubtful if their hopes Will be realized. It would be an {njus- Qice to the other depositors, and thelr @ontinuous opposition to the plan may Gefeat the whole reorganization scheme, he minority depositors should unde! @tand that the recalcitrant minority way dlock the plan entirely.” Fees of the Attorneys. ‘Attorney-General Jackson has filed with Justice Clark a protest in the form of an afftiavit against the approval of & form of contract which the temporary receivers of the Knickerbocker Company desire to enter into with vers. He says that the receivers failed to furnish either to the court or to his office any information as to the probable volume of the legal business although they express a wish to con- tract with lawyers for compensation to be connected with the receivership, pon a percentage basis Pp. If the receive made is ment the Attorney-General 50 amount which will pass throu, fecelvers’ hands may reach $50,000,000, Under the circumstances he !s opposed to any percentage plan of compensa- tion for counsel. He advocates tuat the fompensation should be fixed at a max- um yearly limit with pro rata al- wances, according to the nature of the work and the period of the am- ployment. —— Warm Facts For Cool Days. It’s not yet time to get excited over your Summer vacation, but {t would be well'to make note that 32,428 “Summer Resort” Advertisements, were printed in The World dur- ing 1907— 13,515 More than in the Herald or any other New York newspaper. These figures are“‘hot” from the “Certifying” department | the New GES TO RESCUE WE CUGHT EL SCADAL Philadelphia Student Tried to Pawn Gems Mrs. Purdy Advertised as Lost. HUSBAND BELIEVES HER York Woman Arrested When She Tried to Save Guernsey from Cell. e custody, $1.50 parture that he and will do all in the need helleves in ite her from his power nt There are both mystery and romance in the arrest of Mrs. Purdy and young Guernsey. Following the reporteta theft of the brooch Mrs. Purdy, who is bandsome woman and much her husband, reported to the Jewel had been lost She offer- y ger than Tifany's that in the subway at Times Square. then Inserted an ing a reward for its return, advertisement A description of the brooch was sent through the e and on Wednes- Gay. when a youth mpted to pawn the brooch In Philadelphia, he was ar- [ Circulation Books Open to All.” | w YORK, EVELYN THAW ON THE WITNESS STAND 'S Especially for The Evening World. NE ANKER WALSH FOUND GUILTY ON 54 COUNTS Charged iT Chicago Magnate, | With Juggling $16,000,000 | in Notes, Faces Prison. | 5 YEARS LEAST PENALTY. | Jury, Out Since Thursday. | Brings in Sweeping Verdict —Prisoner Asks New Trial. | CHICAGO, ohn R. Wals President of the defunct Chicago Na- tional Bank, was to-day found guil of ing the funds of tt Instl jury, Which has been considering the case since T! | J an agr nent rhort- | this morning, but the | verdict was pot announced until after convened at 10 o'clock | Phe penalty under the law for the| crime of which Walsh was convicted | {s imprisonment for a period of not j less than five years. of the substitution of a fine for the It does not permit | prison term. He was found gullty on fifty-four counts. The original indictment contained 182 counts. Demurrers were sustained as to 22 count Joh left 150 upon which the Jurors were required to pass. Counsel for the banker immediately moved for a new trial, and Judge An- derson, who presided, sald he would |hear argument the application a week from next Tuesday. One Juror Weeps. rested, He At he was Hor- are B. G he was a stu- rent at re spi- tal, and that he came from Waterbury, Conn, Guernsey Told Story. Questioned further by the police, the young man said the !rooch had been given Lim by his wife. who wanted him to pay his expenses through col- lege. This story was doubted, and un- der further q eame hysterical. came such that the nim to Jail, but made ln the hospital. The youth lost no time, so it 4s sald, tioning the prisoner t His condition be- tice did not take him a prisoner in communicating with Mrs: Purdy. Following the receipt of a telegr: from him, Mrs. Purdy left her hand- some hi ried to Philadelphia. She got Into communication with the Chief of Police there on her arrival and sald to him: This young man did not steal that brooch. The jewels are mine. I gave them to him to pay his way through medical college.” Mr, Purdy is a real estate broker, with offices at No, 71 Nassau street, and Mves with his father and mother, Mr, and Mrs, Oscar Purdy. The Pur- dys are regarded as persons of means. When a reporter for The Evening World called at the Purdy home to- day a woman answered the door bell. She was shutting the door with the re- mark: “There is nothing to be given out here,” when a man of about forty. tive, with gray halr and pushed past her, “Iam C, Franklin Purdy,” ne said, “and I am in great trouble. I must admit to you that my wife Js not at home. She left here at noon yesterday, and I thought for a time that she was visiting her sister in Harlem. Now 1| have discovered that she went to Phila- delphia. “I believe it 1s all a horrible mistake, I am a chronie invalid, and was forced to be out of New York the greater part of last summer. I have never met this man Guernsey and have never even heard of him. I can't imagine where my wife could have met him, Husband Defends Her. “I do not believe now that my wife Rave that brooch to Guernsey. I don't see how she could have done ft without my seeing her. I believe yet that all this thing will be explained, I have been asked to appear in the police court, and I st.ppose I must be a wi ness against my own wife, but I w not do so if I can help It.” The police of Philadelphia reported to York police that Mrs, Purdy had told them that she had met young Guernsey at North Beach last summer and that they had been on the most friendly terms since ee ‘The third Bolleau Girl Art Calendar, in Sunday World iu Greater New Xork mext Gunday. terday at noon and hur- | mustache, | Walsh was present in the court-room and received the verdict with little show of emotion. On the contrary, one of the ‘jurors. Elbert Palmer, of Harvard, IL, |burst Into tears as he took his seat In the jurv box and was so overcome dur- ing the proceedings that he was scarcely able to answer the clerk when asked if the finding represented his view as to the guilt of the defendant | Ag the clerk read off the names. the jurors In turn answered his question tn the affirmative. When it was Palmer's lturn to respond. he arose witih his head bowed. swayed as though about to fall, and muttered somethin= behind his hand, Not until the question had been repeated a third time did the furor con- | troi his feelings sufficiently to reply. Walsh was allowed to remain at lib- erty on the same bond of $5,000 which jhad been eiven after his indictment by the Federal Grand Jury. $16,000,000 in Notes- ‘The charge against Walsh grew out of the closing, in 19%, of the Chicago {National Bank, of whioh Walsh was | President, and {ts allied institutions, vings Bank ana tne Equi- | table Trust Company. Walsh was ac- cused of having loaned funds of the| Chicazo {onal Bank and Its allled| institutions, agxreguting some $16,000,090, on fictitious and insufficiently secured notes to nearly a score of struggling \ enterprises which he himself had found- ed and } Lily own sh \notes, it developed at the trial, were signed without authority in the names of various employees-of Walsh. ‘The directors of the Chicago N tional Bank testified they were not consulted by Walsh as to the making {of the loans and thet they knew noth- ing of them, Twenty-six of the notes were described as ‘memorandum’ notes and they formed one of the chief features of the trial. They represented more than $2,000,000, Methods of con- \cealment employed in. carrying the transactions on the books of the bank and alleged misrepresentations made in | reports to the national bank examin- ers kept the latter in ignorance of the true condition of the bank's finances and the nature of their securities for several years prior to the closing of the institutions, . Ail Good, His Defense. hh was on the witness stand for two days, He admitted nearly all of the transactions charged against him, but clung to the defense that all he uid was for the good of the bank he head- ed, and that all of the loans proved good, and that no one lost anything in consequence of them. In substantia: tion of the latter claim the defense the Home § Ww Sketched by PENRHYN STANLAW: SATURDAY, { “ Circulation Books Open to AL” ] JANUARY 18, 1908. WEA ATSASTMEUME UME UME UMRECAMNREDL LUE CMS UME CME CNV EMER CLARA MORRIS’S GREAT NEW STORY BEGINS T S You will Find the Opening Chapter of ? : ; Read It and Tell Every Member of Y LSPS ASYEASYIASYVERS VY UVSYUVSYUVISVULIE R=-Fair and colder to-nt PRICE ONE CENT.) AGED MAG, Th O-DAY d “THE NEW EAST LYNNE” on Page 7‘ our Family to Read It Sunday clear. AW CAVE dlGk BED TOLGEE HER oN Invalid Makes Her First Visit in Months to Prisoner at Tombs, Returning to Hotel in Partial Collapse. SLAYER WANTS YOUNG WIFE ‘TO TELL STORY IN OPEN COURT. PRETTY GIRL TRAPS KISSER IK AN “L° TRAIN Jenkowitz Goes Free by Tell- ing Judge He Will Be Married To-Day. Grace, Oelirich !s a pretty fourteen- yenr-old girl who ‘ives af No. 562 Fifty- first street, South Brooklyn. One day last fall when she was coming home alone on a B. R, T, train a stranger suddenly rose up from his seat and kissed her fervently. The girl was so astonished that she failed to make an outcry unt!! the may ‘ad jumped off the car and got away. When she reached the house, crying and hysterical, her mother told her the ran would be apt to repeat his per- formance and to keep on the lookout for him. But Grace saw nobody that re- sembled the insolent stranger until last night she was en route home on a Fifth avenue train, There was a man across the aisle who looked remarkably like the kisser of last fall, and while she was trying to make up her mind abou offered evidence to show that since the closing of the banks Walsh had bought back the collateral taken from him by the Clearing-House banks, amounting to $7,000,000, giving in payment a note for the same amount, payablo in five years, ten colors, will be distributed through The | phe collateral released, Waish was alle | party to go ahead with the building of hiy him he rose up and threw both arm: about her neck, The girl screamed and fought and clung to him. Policeman Michael Nolan, of the Coney Island sta- tion, who chanced to be In the next car, arrived in time to save the offensiy from rough treatment at the hands of the other passengers. Geday in the Fifth Avenue Police Court the kisser sald he Jenkowitz, thirty-five years old, vet. He sald night; also Forty-eight yeen drinking last had a grandmother old and a@ er to support, le meant to be married to-day the circumsta: the Magi. missed the charge and put ponds of $00 to keep the peace months. ninety two m4 — BANK SURPLUS Financiers had further cause £ gratulation when the statement came out to-day show! $16,551,425 had been added to th surplus, making the total now 475, ‘This compared this time last year and $16,764, years ago. of $38,087, an increase in tt was with $18,460, John of No he had yed a tha Unde for sis or con- Clearing-House ing that @ bank $22,635, - NOW $22,635,475: a CAN The Clearing-House Statement | Shows $16,551,425 Increase —All the Items Good. WINDOW CLEANER ALLS 6 STORIES IUINSi ANT DEATH Twenty Years Expert at the Business, He Discarded the Leather Safety Girdle. A man's body whirling from the ffth floor of the ten-story bullding at Broad- way and Prince street at 11 o'clock to- day en spread consternation among wom- shoppers and drew a tremendous crowd in front of No, 674 Broadway. Death was instantaneous, the unfortu- nate man’s head and shoulders being crushed into an unrecognizable mass, He was John Dey, forty-five years old, of No, & Kast Thirty-ninth street, and a window cleaner In the employ of is Consolidated Cleaning Company, tn Spring street. or twenty years Dey had slipped about on ledges five to twenty stories above the street. He had disearded the leather girdle usually worn by window cleaners ag a protec tion and di nded entirely on his agile. 0 at|ity and familiarity with his hazardous es Work 57 two] “Dey entered the warerooms of Rel- las & Hess on the Afth toc tay and as on his second wind me In addition to this biz gain there was dope against an increase of $9,528,100 in loans. \rhe cash gain was also pronounced. The statement issued was as follows: 9, 14,375, Bt ave him dl ough one of the gt ment Temarked to ‘on the ledge that he ougt nimself with a guard rope. led and was not seen again, low In the street several persons watching him at work, Thay were ifled to see him fall backward, turn several times and land in a heap the 0 pro- Dey Justice Dowling Has Found No Reason for Keeping Former Revelations About White Restricted to Session From Which Public Shall Be Barred, Over the protests of her physicians and her son’s lawyers, Mrs, W5lle iam Thaw, who yesterday testitied in the trial of Harry Thaw, left a sick bed at the Hotel Lorraine to-day and drove to the Tombs, to pay, a “Murderel Row” the first visit she has made in many montts, She came in a cab, which moved at an easy pace in order that the aged invalid might be spared every possible jar to her weakened frame, A trained nurse accompanied her. A big crowd saw her alight with difficulty at the Centre street doors of the prison and make her way feebly across the sidewalk to the iron gates. Despite her weakness, the mother spent nearly an hour talking to Harry Thaw through the bars of his cell. of partial collapse. Waer Thaw’e persena. counsel, A. ussell Peabody, arrived at the Tombs said that, on behalf of his client's mother, he would apply to Commis- toner Coggey for a special pass ad- mitting Mrs, William uw to the Tombs to-morrow and on «ll succeeding undays until the trial c! Mr. Peabody announced Harry Thaw'a former teacher, Belle Morehouse Lawrence, had arrived from California, that Miss the coming is there has Aw a result of yawrence, Whose evidence upon as highly important, been a change tn the plans of the ¢ fense for next week The school teacher will take the stand ¢ morning to ext it the diary w Kept at the time Thaw, then a boy ten, was one of her pupils, and to tel! of his freakish conduct at that age. Miss Lawrence will be followed by Mra, William Thaw. who ts anxious to complete her evidence by describing the infaney and chiidhood of Stanford White's slayer. Tuesday, Evelyn Nesbit Thaw will probably go lack to the witness clair, {t should be arranged to hold unless the main details of her testimony in reserve until three physicians have sworn to Thaw’s strange mental and physical characteristics at various stages in his early manhood. Two of these physicians, Dr. Wells, Ish practitioner, who once had T! under his care at Monte Carlo, a Frenchman, who treated him at Par wilt arrive by steamer Tue third, who comes from up State, has written that he wil here Monday. a wh v entire Is to tell the narrative alleged downfall at hands In open court, or tn camera, may ‘ot be finally decided until! Tuesday rr Wednesd May Tell All Publicly. e sidewalk. ‘A squad of police rushed the crowd and drove them from the body, which was removed to the Mulberry street station. % th Thaw's wife publicl repeat shocking recital whic at the last t took five days in the telling. The p: al @autor threw public decency into the scem w | Evelyn Thaw WII! Be NORE Ls Sahib of Miss an Eng-| and District-Attorney Jerome did not want | f Then she returned to her hotel and was put to bed in a state velyn Thaw went from her Park avenue house last night to the Hotel Lorraine to see her mother-in- more than an hour with Mrs. William Thaw. After paying her usual visit to the Tombs Evelyn Thaw to-day drove direct to Lawyer Martin \V. Littleton’s office to go over with him the testimony which she is to give on Monday, aw. The former chorus girl spent balance against Evelyn Thaw’s story, He Justice Dowling has decided against um. Justice Dowling cannot see that there should be public suppression of testl- that already has been so widely nted, and M ‘ome's application aring In camera for that por- tvelyn Thaw's testimony will lct-Attorney 1s permitted mpt to disorove statements made velyn to Thaw It 1s expected that le will leave no stone unturned te snow her un as a falsifier, thereby ng the name of Stanford White, last Evelyn Thaw con. 1 herself with telling how White mistreated her, showered presents to yt clea w iad {pen Mer, mistreated her again, and siven her more presents, on'y to de her down a At trial she will also be 0 cal a to testify to i tal condition, |_ In his cell to-day Thaw took a char- acteristic position, He declared Jerome Was trying to exclude the most sensa- nal parts of his wife's testimony be- ause Jerome feared publicity fog the of various rich men whom E: Thaw has sald were associates e in varlous studio dinners and Tenderloin revels, Personally, said Thaw, he did not od- ject to having hig wife tell her whole story in open court. He expected, how- ever, to confer on the subject with his | mother elyn Thaw and with his lawyers n they paid bim thelr daily calls to-da! If chere anyone, even incl ing Thaws mother, Mrs, Willlam who can tell of Harry Thaw's m former He arist's state, It ts s girl und afte will play a sanity plea ¢ aw r testim: he. arriuge t the fy Thaw or r Lively carried. a