The evening world. Newspaper, June 24, 1908, Page 10

MM PETERS PERJURY TRIAL STARTS BRAIN TROUBLES M.L-O. L. Aldermen Suddenly Develop Weak Memories About Boodle Fund. i WHITMAN ON STAND. Denies He Threatened to Im- prison Kunze Unless He Signed Affidavit. Greased with The World's 36,000 Beodie fund which ex-Aiderman Cilford has pleaded guilty of accepted. Send for Whitman. Mr. Kumze's memory proved so bad connection with the affidavit he In despair when Justice Goff took a fhand and suggested that Mr. Whitman thimself be sent for and examined. “I cannot recollect,” was Kunse's answer to almost every question of the District Attorney. During his examina- tion District Attorney Jerome entered the court room and prompted his con- frere in his questions. “Will you swear that you uid not swear before Magistrate Whitman, after signing this aMdavit, that ite contents were true?” asked Mr. Smyth In des- peration. Waen't Threatened. “"T cannot swear to-day thet I dd not that di Po crore rae MeN LEEDS MADE KEW WIFES10,000000 So Elisha Dyer Says He Has Been Told on Good Authority. MAY BE A _ CONTEST. Rich Tin-Plate Man and Son; by First Wife Not on Cordial Terms. WILL LEAVING 10 THE EVENING WORLD. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 1908. = oe aca Tatars r a original trust fund of $5,000,000, the In- | of flame that shot fifty feet hieh. shor- | 1 suddenly turned on the bluecoats and | patrol wagon called. This quelled bas | terast of which was to go to Mrs. Leeds | ine timber and great slabs of stone! disturbance. for life and then revert to thelr son, | now a child of five years. I cannot say | married, were on bad Ci have not had a great deal to each other for the last few h “Mr. Leeds had not been in the mar-| et for four years. He could not stand | the strain, he once told me. His death will not flood the stock market with securities, ax they am all of a char- acter which his estate will hold. The Rock Island bonds are among those which he put in trust for his wife and second son. The remainder of his secu- raties are preferred stocks and the highest class bonds in the leading in- dustrials, Did Not Lose In Octcber. “The report that Mr. Leeds lost heay- jly_in the October slump is untrue. He suffered by the depreciation His an- nual jacome was over $1,000,000, and he always had a substantial balance to r invest. He dealt with my house princi- pally, and judeing from whet I know of bis Ticome T should say that Mr. Leeds Was worth about $15,000,00 MePieDyonadsnleaminen inference cent out from Paris that Mr, Leeds had been careless in his appetites of 1a He said: "I was with had his first shock aft Harvard baseball game Zour yours ago. Again I waa with him prior to to the « ond shook, whi! at George Roee’s, out on cone pisiands gies we had been playing bridge at Mea- dow, Brook Hunt Club. Aeaiierawea with him when he suffered his third A @ight in the courts for possession | Of the $15,000,000 estate of the late Will- fam B. Leeds was predicted today by! EMshe Dyer, who was Mr. Leeds's| nearest friend. Mr. Dyer told an Even-| tng Work reporter that before sailing for Paris Mir. Leeds, after a confer | ence with his lawyer, Lewis Cass Led-| yerd, changed hie will, and increased | the size of a trust to his second wife trom $6,000,000 to $10,000,000. Rudolph Leeds, of Richmond, Ind, twenty-two years old, a son of Mr. Leeda by his first wife, was named es the probable contestant of the will ‘The United States Trust Company, of No. © Wall street, is the trustee of the epecial trust fund, the interest of which ts eaid to go to Mrs. Leeds until their five-year-old son, Willam, attains his majority. Both Mrs. Leeds and her 20n are ateo said to be beneflolaries un- der the will of which the United States Trust Company and George ¥. Baker, President of the First National Bank, are executors. Little Benefit From Contest. “Until the return of Mr, Ledyant, who is most tamilmr with Mr. Leeds's private affairs, from Paris I do not Gare to discuss any trust which may have been made by Mr. Leeds before his death,” said President George Shel- @on to an Evening World reporter. “I have heard of the son Rudolph, but I venture that Mr. Leeds provided for all members of his family, and tf there be & contest the person making !t would revelve slight beneft therefrom.” At the First National Bank it was stated by an officer that Mr. Baker, who {e out of the city, was believed to be an executor of the original will. | Mr, Leeds has a large tolance with the First National Bank. “I am not certain of the changes which Mr. Leeds made in his will and trust fund, but I understood in an in- formal way that he had increased the trust fund for the use of his wife from 1,000,000 to an amount near $10,000,000," | said Elisha Dyer, the well-known so- clety man, of Cutting & Co., No. 1000 Broadway, to an Svening World re- porter. “He also changed his will be- fore sailing. If there !s a contest it will be brought by his eldest son, Ru-| replied Kunge P'Mr" Smyth then read fromthe min- utes of the Grand Jury excerpte of | Kunze's testimony before that body. ! At that time District-Attorney Jerome | anked © derman it were not | true that “a few minutes before the yotes for Cowing were taken Peters had come to him and told him to vote oe, Coming, maying, "We are going to jest the Republicans to see Teally want to elect a Recorder. The minutes showed that Kunze had | enawered “yes” to this question, but to-day he sati he had no recollection of his examination before the Grand Jury. After much wrangling and questioning Kunze at last admitted signing the af- davit, but sald he only did so when 16 Magistrate threatened him with Prison if he did not ‘At this point of tie proceedings Whit- | man arrived and took the stand. He) dented that he had threatened Xcunae | if he did not sign the afm- Gavi and aaid that he was unable to | recollect whether or no the Interlinea- | tions and inzertions with which the affi- | Gavit ts marked at present had existed in it at the time Kunze signed it. Jerome in the Case. ‘At the afternoon session of the court SMhror Aborn, haying recovered from his @ollapse, District-Attorney Jerome him- self conducted the examination, Alder- Man Kunze's memory proved just as aggravating a blank under his fire as it had under Assistant Distr Gmyth’s. After eliciting onl; string of “I don't recollects' can't say at this times” from the wit= ness, Mr. Jerome made a motion that | Kunze be arrested for perjury at | ‘After a short consid he would | Goft said that at tt entertain the motion, but that la- ron he might At this point ex-Al man Noon: who is an attorney and a close f Of Peters and had sat at the pr er's. side throughout the proceed Made himself heard “This proceeding is an outrag thundered, while b to be heard above t “those affidavits ¥ reats, Jerome and Bprrorlieg these men in sions, Having rel down after asking that de declared a mistrial nied the same. The trial about the same temperatur atmosphere | = ——__—_ | | | ‘SAID HE’D “SPILL BLOOD.” | For Phreateninn to “spill the blooa” | of his sweetheart and then kill loaded twenty-six igned in t and fi a 2 ed $10 by Magis ut, and w At the Navy day it was said Crea, who the Daxtlesnip Ge ved and that Nraithin ten days from San Fran ego suffering from k dolph, who runs a newspaper, I believe, | out in Richmond, Ind. “Mr. Leeds doubtless feared that such | wife to v.10m he was deeply attached, and his second son, established his Just beginning a several ‘|American Tennis week shook at the Horse Show, In each in- | stance the cemping of the paralysis was not preceded’ way any imduwigence tn, stimulants.” Leeds and President William of the United State Steel Cor- were close friends. Before y Mapelle Gilman, the actress. the present rs. ‘orey. an her mother atiended the Parly horse races with MT. and Mrs. Leeds, and were later joined by Mr. Corey, who made some wagers for, the then Mi Gilman. By putting the property into 4 trust. Mr. Tecdenens hie heirs from the expense of the tran: fer tax, which 18 6 ver cent. in New York Biat GRANT LOSES T0 BELGIAN PLAYER Crack Beaten at Wimbledon by Lemaire in Hard Match. | My. | corey, Is WIMBLEDON, June %—Lemaire, the Belgian player, defeated Wrile C. Grant. of the New York Lawn Tennis Club, in the fourth round to-day for the All4Mngland tennis championship. The eoores were 3-6, 46, 64, 6-2 and €—2. Grant excelled in service, but the tmeneralied him in placing then baller and as a result Grant be came winded by much running. | Leak From Old Pipe Fired by GAS EXPLOSION SUFFRAGETTES in three minutes the two policemen It Ia expected that to-morrow will find ross hich tn the alr and scattered abcut| were battling for their lives to pre- ' umber of reserv: fro} ther station a block away from the Senatt The} servo the skin of their faces and their |_ num ineBrownarillaitorwdaeant| tavasn four men who had thelr arm eyes. property. The ranks of the strikers Wroken were fully thirty tece way Fifty of the strikers joined in the as- | were Augmented during the day by seve working at their drills, Connor and " jeral thousand women, and it is es Pore ates corer rary eaten es sault. Several men ran between the | eral thousand women, and it 1s ee! Pate EE REIGR ES rade oMcers and women and appeared to | pledged themselves to fight against t ChE el they fell under a take up the struggle. Accepting the | raise in the price of meat to the bitter shower of stcnes. The other two men| challenge, the two patrolmen dealt | end. wer ininved by falling timber. their sticks about freely, bowling over | The suffering which the strikers en- ’ Train Shaken Up. | A h avenue “L" train was peat, | ing the excavation at the tim duced speed, and the erin ine tt were thrown {nto a panic by the jarr- SEVERE SHAKING ture. Several windows were broken in | the cars of the train. The motorman | | continued his run until he reached the | Thirty-fourth street station, where the passengers piled out in a rush, In the houses on Thirty-first street facing where the explosion occurred not | a window was left inaact. Hundreds of houses along Ninth avenue and in ad-/ joining streets euffered similarly. Blast in Pennsylvania Excavation. FOUR MEN IN HOSPITAL. ing and swaying of the elevated struc-|Four of the violent in Brownsville to-day. the more unruly dured to-day Was intense, any number of them parading under the fearful heat clothed. several men and forcibly pushing the women into the street. Finally four of them were placed under arrest and the all day, hatless and meagrel: Tom Daniel. SonsaSons Summer Linen Sale. Towels, Table Cloths, Sheets, Pillow Cases and Bedspreads Greatly Reduced. 5,000 TURKISH TOWELS, size|SHEETS AND PILLOW CASES ATTACK POLICE fe cae Ones Locked Up After Butcher Wagon Is Wrecked. Striking ‘meat suffragettes” became Four of | of the women were/ following a vicious assault Many Other Persons Slightly | When the reserves arrived from the |locked up 23x45, heavy doubl> twisted yarn, | the best standard makes a. less than West Thirty-seventh street station am- | on @ butcher’s wagon, during which the | holesale pri Injured and Windows i bulances called from the Ri lan exceptionally good towel. 25c wholesale prices. nyured an Indows in ealtiandl awivavelgonsttals wha toad contents of the vehicle were scattered | Value 45c; for SHEETS. Neighborhood Broken t usly injured men cere taken |OVe? the street and the driver put to | —__——_— 2 Neg! bp iaeay inc ewe (ot the tives responding | 7Ut: ., | HUCK TOWELS, size 17x32, firnaly | 54x90, 45c | 81x90, 62c ee joea, two surgeons remaining in| Sail bands of sentinels or “pickets” woven and heavy weight. 10c rien = t Penneyivania Ratiroad ex. | the excavation to tend those who were paraded the streets : keeping steady Value 14c; for CASES. Creer tosion | 186 badly hurt. More than a score of | Watch over the retail butcher shops ———— 42x36, 14c | 50x36, l6c cavation was shaken an exp! men had bad cute and abrasions, which | Which they closed yesterday. Many piSH TUWELLING, unusually ab- 45x36, 15c| 54x36, 17 of gas this afternoon that scattered | tne doctors sewed and plastered | persone fell Into the hands of the des- sorbent and substantial. 74 | 0 ¢ tons of rock and debris. It seriously! A few minutes before the explosion | Perate women and received rough treat: | jade 10c per y eH for vac Tae injured four drillers, caused minor in-| William Anderson, an inspector for the | ment. CROCHET BEDSPREADS, highly juries to a score of workmen end | Consolidated Gas Company, was work-| Even the bulky policemen did not es-| TABLE DAMASK, full and haif| raised Marseilles patterns, 3, and ing on the conduit in an effort to locate | cape the clutches of the meat strikers.| bleached, heavy weight and very | full sizes. Value 1.35; for 98c emashed hundreds of windows in the | the leak. He had walked ten feet away | A young boy carrying a basket of meat! serviceable, ten handsome patterns. omer. neighborhood. The four men who were | from the place when the earth behind was waylaid on Prospect avenue, Va'ue 65c yard; for COMFORTABLES, si 1 summer weight, eo badly hurt that they were taken to| him split and went upward. Although soundly whipped with straps, his basket ls 39¢ fine EATS ee teaied the Roosevelt and New York hospitals |e was lifted trom his aera hurled seized and !t contents huried Into the TABLE NAPKINS, full bleached | cotton filling, very. pretty floral and fae across an open sewer cut he was not road. He ran cry! Be Sowniine phen Irish linen, fine acalltyy aie 19x19.| Persian designs. Value 1.35 each, until he encountere atrolmen Goster| Value $1.65 doz.; sale ce, ale price, CONNOR, EDWARD, of No. 307 West in charge of construction and English. Value $: P 1,29 | sale price 89c Bixty-eighth street; right hand and arm tart evens) Goateaee ree, With the officers he returned and Mail and Telephone Orders Filled at Once. eReeS erty Gey CO Seca a a Ee Peet ea re iseitenvatleaarentte ween Broadway, 8th and 9th Sts i ¢ Z vestigate until to-dav. ‘he women to maintain order. they 9 . tl ‘Thirty-ninth street; right arm and left leg broken. CARROLL, ROBERT, of No. 8 East One Hundred and Sixth street; internal | injuries. RYAN, DANIEL, of No. 36 Weat Forty-fourth street; left leg broken and internal injuries. Macy Sales Is the Annual Sale of Hosiery Samples. | | | The explosion occurred in a conduit/} to 50c. Hosiery at 24c., Soc, to T3e, * i near the coner of Thirty-firet street! Hosiery at 37c, Men's 25c,, 50c. to 75c. of the best values are in small quantities and Ninth avenue where a great volume || Half Hose at 15c., 24c. and 87c, B'way at 6th Av, 4th to 35th St so small to advertise. of gas had collected from a broken main. Ignited by Blast, ‘The gas was ignited by a nearby blast, and the fact that the workmen in that seotion of the out had withdrawn from the vicinity of the conduit prob- ably saved a score of lives. ‘The rock thrown up by the blast had not fallen when the conduit blew up with a tremendous report and a geyser What is ASTORIA is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric, Drops It is Pleasant, Morphine nor other Narcotio substance. Ita age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms and allays Feverishness, Colic, It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation and Flatulency. sesimilates the Food, regulates the Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and ‘The children’s Panacea—The Mother's Friend. ‘The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been in use for over 80 years, has born the signature of Chas, H. Fletcher, and has been made under his personal supervision since its infancy. Allow no one to deceive you in this. All Counterfeits, Imitations and ‘‘Just-as-good” are but Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and a step would be taken by his eldest | Chiidren—Experience against Experiment. son and in the interest of his second | Genuine Castoria always bears the signature of and Soothing Syrups. natural sleep. uses of Greater New Y« ROSIE LLOYD'S SONG HIT With Next Sunday’s World cost of this grade of taffeta. In pink, blue or white; trimmed . Casto ria | small ruffles and lace edging It contains neither Opium, It cures Diarrhoea and Wind a ETAILS warrant advertising-—lots | cisively and directing attention to t Advertised” cards. $20.00 Dresses, $ good quality taffeta, in plain colors Cepia contrasting color silk; Foulard Dresses, silks, in blue, gobelin, brown trimmed with plain satin to match sizes for small women and misses. Skirts at $4.49- particularly desirable for mountain full pleated All special offerings—Princess, stripe, semi-fitted bick, double-breasted f; “t Light- Weight Bedding 72 x 90-inch binations ; size, eac - $1.78 Sillcolineveovered Comfort- ables, light and medium weighi, filled with clean white cotton; for full size beds, each, 84c&99c Mass For Children. 24 Floor. Drawers. of cambic, with hem- stitched ruffle, tucks above; 2 to 14 year sizes, 6 24e Skirts, 0’ <ambric, ruffe finished with enb oidery insertion and embr ered rutile; 6 to 14-year sizes... rk. -79¢ | Night Gowns, of nainsook; low neck | Styl, with ribbon run through neck and sleeves; 2 to 12-year siz-s, 59 Russian Dresses, of pink and bue | checked percale; Dutch neck, trimmed with embroidery Insertion; 2, 3 and 4-year sizes, seeeee reson TBC A Feature of the Series of Old-Fashioned Women's 25c. Hosiery at 15c., 350, Silk Foundatic Foundations for Women’s Lingerie Dresses Second Floor. Princess Slips of taffeta silk—the ideal costume foundation— and here are one hundred of them at a price which hardly covers the with Val. lace edging; flounce on skirt, finished pithy two Women’s Dresses and Skirts Second Floor of some groups, embracing quantities large enough to demand. Good as the values are, you will find even better ones among the “Not Advertised” nears the end we make way with all little lots, cutting the prices de- waists, effectively trimmed with large braid ornaments, buttons and skirt, finished with fold. plain black; kimono style waists, Tramping Skirts, made of khaki, full gore flare model, Shirt Waist Dresses, $3.96 to $6.94 Dresses, made of lawns, chambrays, seersucker and linon, in plain, heck and plaid effects—every color re presented. Women’s Storm Coats at $12.74 Of fine quality Priestley C ravenette, in tan, olive and Oxford; meet coat collar and full coat sleeves with cutts. White Blankets, “soft fleece; || LILY WHITE BRAND “ABSOLUTELY PURE” GRAPE J i os All 8i ; 7 JUICE. Prices:— pink and blue borders; 54x72. |] AU Silk Belting, | fine quality, satin! | car bottle, 12c.; dozen, $1.33; medium bottle, 22c.; dozen, $2.43; large ; ; | striped, 17% inches wide; in pink, 30¢ $4.46, %-gallon, 74e3 gall es inch size, pair, 68e.; 64x80- }| light blue, white, Alice blue, navy, | | Pottle, 38c.; dozen, $4.46; %4-gallon, 74c.; gallom Jars. : iNd Nesan ond Binaoadtod 94c¢ |} brown and black regularly 49e. 4 Duffy's Sygate Apple Juice:—Pint bottles, 19c. each; dozen, $2.17; Gray Fleece BI. t (yard; special.. 0 +. 28¢ quart boitles each; dozen. . 96 HM blue e Blankets, ihr ‘ Elack Taffeta Ribbon, fine quality, Rose's Lime Juice:—Large bottle, ‘31 . each; dozen, $3.68; small bottle ASSN diet 56 high lustre, 5 to 53% inches wide, | | 21c. each; dozen.........+00++ - ch size, pair...... ic suitable for millinery purposes Doz, Bot. Scarlet Fleece Blankets, and hair bows; yard, 17%, Ginger Ale, Red Star Brand... 93c | Root Beer .. closely woven; black striped bor- Ginger Ale, Arcadian $1.57 | Celery Phosp ders; 54x72- inch size, pair. $1.24 (daces Sarsaparilla, Red Star Brand... 93c | Lemon Soda, Red Star Brand G Plaid Blank | Club Soda, Red Star Brand... .$1.12 | Ginger Champagne (Equinox), enmia nrg as ankets, Neckwear Ginger Ale) Mohican Brand....81.09 | doz. pts, $1.38; doz. gts. ..82.14 single; in a variety of color com- Main Floor, Sarsaparilla, Mohican . $1.09 | Corry’s Aromatic Ginger Ale. 81.16 In Progress—The 1908 Series of Old-Fashioned Macy Sales, involving seasonable departments throughout the store. R.H. Mo y & Co.'s Attractions Are Their Low Prices, GCVYS merchandise from Many aes That Extra Bit of Summer Furniture Fourth Floor An Iron Couch Bed,/all iron frame with tress and bolster covered with fancy ¢ fe used as a single or double bed; spec A Cot Bed Outfit—All iron folding cot, and all cotton mattress; complete. . : A Folding Camp Cot, with hardwo me covered with army duck A Reed Couch, 6 feet long; maple frame with reed seat and head. . An Arm Rocker, with high arms, slat back and dow woven cane Se: A Folding Camp Stool, with maple frame and ¢ A Fold.ng Camp Chair, with maple frame, perforate A Folding Arm Chair, carpet seat and slat back A Folding Lawn Settee, siat seats and back... . An Oak Rocker Settee, weathered finish A “Red Star” Couch Swing—the most comfortable sy ing made cover, iron stretcher and fibre mattress. A Hand-made Willow Swing, with round back and A Porch and Lawn Lamp, he. with one light, $9.94; two Tights, $14.89; three lights with attached woven wire spring $4.74 at neck and armholes ) -$5.49 ep re omy seat. $13.89 candles or electricity; $17.49 big enough to supply a rl sale ‘lines. As the store year he reductions by means of “Not The re Rafiahandles for parasols are designed to match pongee stik costumes. They are of woven stray, in natural mc Model Silk color. Parasols so handled range in price f.om $6.49 to$21.89 Main Floor 14. 7 Guimpe Dresses, of and stripe effects; kimono effect Main. Floor. Shun Street. Men’s Furnishings Outing Shirts, unstarched; made of various fabrics; collars attached or with plain neckbands; soft cuffs. ——Of Soisette, in tan, white, cream and figured | ——Silk mixtures, stripes and checks ——Of white Japanese silks ——Flannels, plain colors, stripes, &c... Cricket Shirts, made of fine quality attached; custom workroom quality; —Jumper Dresses, made of foulard $16.7 full skirts; in regulation sizes and .83.96 81.44 to $4.48 cheviot, finished with fold; imported sold elsewhere for $3.00; Beach Robes, made of thin, light-weight fabrics—take up no more salt $2.0 with collars here. .$1.98 wear, case space than a suit of pajamas.. Leather Belts, black, tan or gray Kimono and new style Guimpe ; various styles of buckles, 4c, Bc, Wash Neckwear, on special bargain table................ceee00e Night Shirts, of cambric, all sizes up to 20, 48c.; of union linen cambric, warranted one-half linen c pipers Refreshing Drinks for Hot Days 6th Fi. ront, with deep patch pocket; Our celebrated Pure Fruit Syrups:—Raspberry, Strawberry, Lemon, Orange, Vanilla, Pineapple and ten other flavors, produced in our own labo- ratory and guaranteed absolutely pure; a quart, 38c.; pints 2lc (aor Ribbon Sale Main Floor, ““RED STAR BRAND” SPARKLING CHAMPAGNE CIDER, MADE IN JERICHO, LONG ISLAND, FROM RUSSET APPLES, Women's Dutch Coll: made of || sheer lawn, trimmed with medal- lions and Valenciennes lace. .23¢ | GUARANTEED ABSOLUTELY PURE. Fancy Dutch Collars, of lawn, imi- 1 Doz. Large Bot. 1 Doz, Med. Bot. Large Bot. — Med. Bot. tation Irish and Val. lace......48¢ $2.98, $2.04 26c 19¢ Genuine Ecuador Panama Hats Hat tore, Sth Floor, This season we show the best selection of Panama Hats we have ever presented, including reguiation Pan- ama shapes and telescope shapes, in various grades, trimmed in the best mauner possible, The finer ones are Monte Cristi quality—the peculiarly fine weave for which specialty hatters ask up to $50.00. Our price for this particular grede is $16.49. Others Here at $3.96, $4.96, $7.49 and $9.94 STRAW HATS—still a-plenty at pr Aa from 99c to $3.49. Outing Hats and Caps range irom 46c to $1.98. ‘Ihe tamous Belgian Pocket Hats—lightest-weight Hats made—are $1.58 apiece.