The evening world. Newspaper, July 25, 1908, Page 10

5 er ee ane DYNAMITERS ROE -EWELERS SAFES; GET 310,000 100) ease Robbers Work Unmolested in Office, of Chambers Street Concérn and Get Away With 75 Pounds Golden Booty. In the middle of the close-packed, presumably well- | busi! Ness section of the lower west side cracksmen dynamited two ...¢s early| to-day and carried away enough gold and silver loot to break down an| ordinary man, The robbery was brought off in the offices of the Thomas J. Dunn THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, JULY 25, 1908 AUTO STOLEN BY “Court of Sorrows” Is Bar Where CHAUFFEUR KILLS Juvenile Offenders Face Law are Suey ge ear a DEY COE ee PY ranean Ay pe PLAYING CAT we Justice oN Te BEFORE THE COURT. STREET 7, \ WYATT WHO GIVES THE CHILDREN FATHERLY HOVICE New York ade Run } Down by Reckless Driver at Seabright Station. of No. 107 West ] t who was run down | and killed by a recklessly driven auto- moolle Sea N. J, last night, | lost his life In his anxiety to return to New Yorl the earuest possible mo- ment and attend to patients whom he had promised to visit. Dr. Flint was the victim of an Irre- sponsible chauffeur, who took out his | employer's car without permission and | sped elong a public traffic congested | | road in a spirit of bravado, The chauf- feur, Louls Le Francois, {s under perl at Seabright. The car belongs to John W. Masury, the paint manufacturer, of No. 40 West Sixty-ninth street. With | Le Francois were G Belltler, a/ ae > | Not the Crimes or Punish- ment, but the Pathetic Faces of the Little Victims Pull at | Company, manufacturing jewellers, on the third floor of the building | at No, 101 Chambers street, corner of Church. The value of the stuff that was stolen totals up to considerably more than $10,000. In a lump it weighed close to seventy-five pounds, ‘ ie Taking a lesson in sagacity from the book of that intelligent bird, | the ostrich, the police, both of the precinct and of the Central Office,|*° rammed their own heads into the silent sands, and on the pretext that] Publicity would spoil "their hope of capturing the enriched dynamiters they managed to hush up the victims and keep the Story of the robbery | out of print for many hours after it occurred, The Thomas J. Dunn Company o¢-! the robbery, He nelther saw nor heard cupies the three upper floors of the 4nything suspicious, five story building. The two lower Entrance Was Easy, Ones are tenanted by the firm of} It ‘8 belleved that the burglars—for Wheeler & Whitman, as a restaurant, ‘Mere must have been more than one Entrance ts had to the upper floors by Mered the building by way of the house roofs, From Broadwa a y to Church @ sfilrway leading from Chambers | gtree, the block of houses facing Cham- | treet. |bers street runs in a sky Ine that 1s There was nothing unusual in the/almost unbroken, nearly all of the | ‘Yooks of things when Phillip M-Phar-|bulidings being practically the same land, the porter, climbed these stairs| height. The rope ladder could have at 5 o'clock this morning. But the|been used to scale any particularly moment he unlocked the third floor hall! hard wall, ‘There are no marks to show door he smelled a peculiar, nasty 80°! the scuttle was broken From th | of gas, and a puff of dead smoke took |ig argued that it stood unlocked him in the face. Once inside the building the cracks- Is Wreck Told the Story. |men found their work easy, for there McPharland traced the fumes to the are no locked Moors between the r office, which 1s a twenty foot square floors. idently way by the same ro followed in getting in. Capt. Cottrell and the Head- quarters people agree that the whvie job showed expert handiwork and tre: ment In all its details, Roofs Unguerded, space shut off from a floor given over to work benches by a low partition | which does not reach the celling and | by a grilled fretwork. The back of| this office js the Church street wall ‘and against the wall stand side by side two huge three-ton,steel safes of the Capt. Cottrell said to an Evening, fort commonly used in the Jewelry) wos reporter that the reason the trade. burglars found so little difficulty was The porter looked fffst long enough to! @ee that both safe doors stood twisted and open and that the place was clut- tered with debris and marked with what Uecause In New York's business district Mttle or no care is taken to safeguard “Phey spend all kinds of money or Yoked ike blg powder smudges. Then | jocks for their tront doors ane Bsa he ran down the stairs to find a polices; doors on the street, and fix uj the man~several of them, {n fact, for he all right,” said the captain, @idn't return untl! he had brought five) ¢, Bees HU A | fear that a robber will enter from a patrolmen, | root or down a skylig “There were a. great many finger- prints on the desks and the eafe,"" | continued, “and we are comparing ths now with’ the imp ns of safe blow- jers and burglars tn our collection,” Police Have a Theory, The Cosmopolitan Hotel stands at the peinee of Chern bers street and New roadway a few doors from the Yock of each safe three holes had been Company's buliding,. The police cote drilled and through these somo explo- | Up @ theory late this afternoon that che ay cracksmen registere Kuests at ve, dynamite, teyo doubt, he at the sive, dynamite, teyond a doubt, so Cosmopriitan last. evening. and Left Rope Ladder Behind: On the floor of the office the police group found a thirty-foot rope ladder, well made of new, strong hemp cord. ‘There was also a tool kit, with a lone| brace and bit in it. Whatever other tools | {t had contained were gone, Around the Police say, had been poured or sifted, time during the night crawled ce a ‘The robbers had banked the safes well | their bedroom window, lowered then to muffle the sound and deaden the far flves to a roof below and so reached before they touched off the fuses, For) “tt “Was stated ‘tae wmny Works. this purpose they used office coats, rugs heds of modern mien had been door mats, baes of jewellers’ sawdust Even the s of boring dust cloths—aanything suitable they "iN the charges Could gather up about the place. ailentnee nea It was a handy joo. The explosions WAS subEe quently tore off the combinations and let tno 1 to have ish doors sx ing open without ppping then: off their hinges, No damage was dot Rene to the office fixtures. Plainly the bur- madals glars knew exactly how much dyna: and that ber of extra em- These men had reference as to Mite to use for such a job. Begged Them to Keep Quiet. rout the While the policemen were searching ined office to, rights Mpituratinixean , Saas Ane found a number of’ t the premises—and finding Incidentally © & solid gold and allver medare that the scuttle In the roof stood op there had been no room. in MePariland got his loyers on which the looters the had telephone. The members of the firm, ren AN renee “Feaching the place as fast os t bulla [ise aca panty nde “haba @et there, were met by Central Orie e detectives and by the precinct sleut from Capt. Cottrelli's Leonard street station, These men begged keep the thing quiet. That was why ik happened that the papers didn't hear ot the robbery until this afternoon. The robbers had been excellen: el MeOH 10 for thelr night’s work, ‘here wasn U much of value left in the safe. Gil heavy handbag, such as is used py! salesmen, had disappeared, and the po- Wee think the burglars packed their] “Agsemblyman, I will adjourn this Spoil in this handbag and carried 1 |case to Aug. ll," said Magistrate House away #0. |to Assemblyman Robert F. Wagner, of | What They Got. If they did one.of them had a heavy load, for the bundle weighed \the Twenty-second, in the Harlem Court | to-day, m, vour Honor, wouldn't some other between fifty and seventy-five pounds clvided day do?" inquired the Assemblyman. | as follows: client can appear at any time,| Gold and silver stock, mainly se- ia ne | eret order emblems and badges jut_wiy not the 1th?" asked the| Ten diamond- mounted —witen Magistrate “Well, you see, I'm—well, the fact {s charms of gold.. Unmounted diamonds Catholic centenary badwe of gold. Five sheets of pure gold.. Ten-carat gold stock.. Cash Unfinished jewelry - 'f J must tell it, I’m to be married on that day" blurted out the Assembly- ho battled long for the 6-cent urning the color of a B. R. T. nk transfer, So the 3 some mor: Dies and samples of emblems, fone cre eharms, Ree cess 2,000! tr r, was that the won Gobody in the neighborhood could be | name was Margaret McTague and found who had heard the explosion or | fhe jes at No. 206 Skillman street, the ‘two separate explosions, {f they| “No, I don't know where the wedal ng . Game separately. David E. Havelette, | is to take place. I don't know where I'll patrolman on post, passed the build. | spend my honeymoon or who the best man will be Wa Keats shouted the several ee between midnight and modest Mr. to his pursuers as pth first told Dim of he swing onto s Tutrd ayeake can psa oe f ‘ Ra 9 ty |name has not been revealed by the tators.”” GussiE Police, ay i is Dr. W. Gill Welle, of No. 215 West | ea Cnet Forty-third street, had a narrow escape j from the fate that overtook ants friend, | Justice Wyatt, Who Presides, eR oree Dr. Funt. Dr. Wylie, in describing the | GUARD/ANSHE ty s death of Dr. Flint, say at Children’s Court, Dilutes GOING “Dr. Flint and I had attended in con: | d i INTO suitation on a Mrs. Townsend, of Wat-| Justice With Much Melee SALOONS Jerwiteh Park was n “clock, TC and Dr ack Some of the Cases Which | ba to New York as.soon as possible, saying ‘ : t he haa gn patients awaiting , Come Before Him. ‘Louise Kreger Fights Rescuer | j went | whose n | and who DIVES FOR GIRL WhO LEAPS 0 CAR INTO Ril | Under Drawbridge Over the Hackensack In an effort to end her Ife Miss Loulse Kreger, of isade Park, N from a trolley car as tt was speeding across the over Hackensack River at 12.20 A, M. to-day, James Davis, conductor, saw the girl! make the leap, and the next instant his| body was flying through the air as he followed. The girl continued to fight with all her | Strength. A rope was lowered and) bound about her, tying her arms to her sides so she could not unfasten the knot, Sbe was then drawn up to the| bridge an$ held by the motorman and | J., leaped | bridge HUGHES SAYS H WILL RUN AGAIN PARTY OLS Announcement Is Like a Bomb Shell in Camp of Opposing G. O. P. Leaders, oy, Hugh es by his statement chat ho is a candidate for yenomination for Gove ernor {f his party culls him has caused a panie-like cond! he ranks of the Republican leaders, who were cone fident the Governor had tired of publte, lte and would not want a second term. Many conferences had already takes) place among them as to a man who while reforming would not be a te former enough to hurt and whose ele@ tion in | tion would restora old party conditions. One important conference, that at Kamp Kill Kare presided over by Tim. passengers while Davis was brought up | from the river bank. | The girl, still screaming and begging to be allowed to die, was hurried tu Edgewater ferry, where a physician at- tended her. Later she was taken to her home and placed under guard, | Miss Kreger was deceived about eight- een months ago by a married man of Leonia, who had represented to her he was single, and who was attentive to her, and had promised to make her his wite, | When her child was born there was a scandal in Palisade Park, where the Kregers are highly respected. One night |a few weeks after the birth of the child er home and of the nat Miss Kreger silpped from placed the child on the doorste, married man's home, It was fou G morning by the man's wife and taken | to she Englewood Hospital | The whole andal then be- ©ame known, and Miss Kreger's father, John Kreger, @ fireworks dealer, in search of the Leonia man, me was sald to be Van Brunt, employed by a New York miserable s him, but as no train was due I induced | him to come to my home to dine. | “We got Into my automobile with my C. Ti | ? y Ros . Tillotson. leony andreryirenaumretrandestarteg tor] 27 suose o | home, Our way led past the Sea-| A large square room, railed off at one i ight station. As we reached it Dr. end by a high huge seat, where a judge asked the chauffeur to stop, and cits in flowing robes, tempering Ju BE Yas eee! he Jumped from the car and started for | par renrnls edonn i he station, calling out that he was| Witt mereyiat the th N cee ee t nelr own or to weep over skinned, dark-eyed man with calloused going to get a time table, sombrely f TPS ETS fe) them goodby at | hands, a “My son turned to me and sald that cession of children with sad expe lensed) th is goers, | ue note ue bre ear rout Honee there no use In going to the sta- faces and garments of povert | Caught in the Trap. Hee a nelle "1 caught him tion for a time table, as we had one at was the scene wh ted me when) peyond, in the semi-gloom through! “Ah!” responds the judge, leaning j\taeaous Eee eaventns) Colt reventeredeatha Court, at Tthe dark doorway, Is the outline of | back so the curly’ black head of Antonio | and start a to call him Teritare ét beyond. th ibiblemc'Wedeas LawiliieaCGaclt NCA h stre {ron bars, and yet beyond th 1e . “IL guess I will get back | back, 1 ayas backward, Third avenue and ae dy Se heem RR: iO UR) Geni oral when I heard the noise of an approach-| A day at voice) motion- | us about tt Are you ing automobile. |--and I spent one trapped animals at RRs dowbread cuxcaitesamne “1 turned to see a car going at a rate, makes the world lock \ ering down | e have nodding to eat. the sick. | of from forty to fifty miles a + from the lc maka ne mon.” And | lor from niles an hour! 45m: th ings the from “ MLonio Casts a Volley of pieading looks | strike Dr, Flint, whe stopr nd Moved the punishment meted ou Bang! ue ir iy Justlee which brings him| as if to run back toward my H® dren themselves, th heavily on the after Tonyss fatner comes to} was struck before he could save him- turos-whieh pall 10, Clad in the funere y's defense and promises to keep self and rolled under : maciine. He The long any does very well n straigh Was drameed lu) feet necessary ian age i R 0 to litt the car ceur of the ground to rey makes au alate unaway Boy Found MBE. Ielint was unconscious, He was though white hair falling Uke | fourteen aiid a sorry rmovef tv the home of Dr. r alo singularly softens the severity he s tt set flat | PB of his face. down « ihe From the gioom behind the black door | looks e prize fighter very | : thare arises a murmur of appre much § . Large, fat tears in reck- anita Sone aRBRanOCeH f are Funning races down | ne 8 : a blue-coated offic At the rear Now > with me to before the Judge. te benches and istice and I'll show . M. sleeping In West | fathers soners at close range—bold bc I bought him five youth neal pretty pickpockets and juvent! ult and I Phoua nt You hungry all right ‘and nol b 5 ! duasia tGoldemantt) calle at all.” What i Emile home in New Ham ae} es 4 for himself? Well, Emile! saahte Qaeek conted clerk in a command iis tongue and couldn't’ say i \word, for the tears were running riot | ris down his nose, Then Emile's! ther, a shrewd, cold man, comes upon | and and says hls lazy son had run two d ture. | Jewelers’ Safes as T real Were Left by Dynamiters Who Got $10,000 in Loot ’ all the time,” wall nile bis fa deni d kes one the att teristic appeals cr and a re-! ce upon the stand Bens plan and Joseph Selpstein, | thous between t they scarcely add 19 to a score ars, are active In| ain unconventional lines which place par with the class of juvenile! Fagin used to make. t ping: tt can't send them of Refuge till they tl are twelve So it went from 10 In the morning | till 3 in. the afternoon, with the sam. endless line of Juvenile offenders | nding for mercy at the bar. of ae | HUN Th INOLYMIC CAM English Fighter, Here to Meet | Attell, alls Them “Bloom- ” Amateurs, Owen Moran, the United Kingdom} lightweight champion, who recently Whipped Seaman Hayes, arrived to-day p ania, The fighter looked fit! I beat Abe Attell on Sept. 7 at Colma, Cal.,"" sald Moran, “I want ‘a go with Battling Nelson.” Moran fights Attell at 122 pounds four ‘hours before the fight, and ha offets to ee AGNES THAW SUED FOR LEGAL BILL; OATES and a golden-halred tot of eight years tremblingly makes her app | tdke on Nelson at a pounds ringside, if soncerning the Britis disc: = WANTS ANOTHER LAWYER. itp salen concer Amerionas 18 (ner H eat Moran said; Is are a blooming lot of Ei dt uch pieation was made could this baby be amateurs; there 4 a of English | a vith! e arm o tar play’ among us profes: tonal 8. t Jus within the arm of th Haein did not think ¢ Hamwng erub she ands fting a wan, to be the victim of any retall e to liste en to what the law tactics: He ee ie America now in the Pough ‘a ( ‘ ndon understood the situation, | San uBR vile Who allow their |!n Loner stain ignorance on the part i tiny ider into swings BY the officials more than any petty ‘iy orney In person ing door cata Not that Mrs prejudice. place of Lawyer Graham, man drinks too much. Bless. 3 a a ager, of Sho Insists the child had wande 6 9 GOV. aham and away, and It wasn't her fault if she'd cop” HOLDS UP GUILD, |e Thaw had been found In the corner saloon, But | yew in con- the cheruble infant is sent back to tho| LYNN, on oe mami spinning ore Justice Mor- rooms of the Soclely for the Prevention | alone the Doulevar a social engagement yesterday, Gov, Curtis Gulld, 4r., was held up by a policeman for overspeeding, after a long chase, aght eure van Asylum. to s of Cruelty to Chili investigation can be until made, further | fir Oiridden Invalid husband jn |hate and fear of the man |in his bedroom, In which she was near- |jacket which weighs — twenty-elght pounds. Physiclans say he cannot live| ng. a Branitzky falnted when she heard the verdict pS mercantile use as a drummer, For two or three days the father lay In wa for the drummer. Ile encountered him on the street one nig! when Van Brunt was bound home from business and ed bs Dic ee shois at b UR FREES SIC N Wr KILLED. HOM WRECKER: | | | | | | Helpless Invalid Fired Shot as Wife Struggled With the Invader, CHICAGO, July %—'We, the jury, believe that sald Willlam T. Branitzkv ‘was acting In the protection of his wife and home at the time of the shoot ing, | and exonerate him from all blame and recommend his release from further cus- tody.”” Thus concluded a@ coroner's jury at |the inquest over the body of Lucas Slet- ten, who was shot and killed by a bed- the latter's home at No, 4007 Grand Boulevard on Thursday night, The jury comple vindicated the man, whose young wife | was harassed and attacked, his ra by | beaten and his home almost wrecked by Sletten. Mrs, Branitzky, a little woman, twen- ty-sIx years old, was the principal w ness at the inquest. She related a story es ten months’ Intimacy with Slettin how he enticed her away from her hus- | band, her return to the Invalid, Slettin jcontinued advances, and her subsequent ‘Then she told of the final scene—her | struggles with Slettin in the dining-| room, and before her husband's eves| ly choked to death, and the two shots which ended Slettin's life. Mrs, Branitsky on cross-examination admitted that she ran out of the house and followed Slettin to where he had fallen on the pavement. She went with him in an automobile to a hospital, re- turning to her Qusband several hours taser ltzky at one time was a mell:to- itect, He is affilcted with tuber- of the spine and 1s paralyzed the walst down. For several from months he has been in bed In a stralt- \WILL BUILD NEW STATION. | Work tn Second Precinct Held Up Two Yenrs by Mets, After being held up for tWO vears by the Comptroller on the ground that It | would be too expensive an undertaking | for the clty, the plans for the new Second Precinct station house were to- Cy submitted to Commissioner Bing- am, and work on the structure prob- ihe will be begun in a short time, The Comptroller's office held that 00,009 was the lowest for which such as api tes planned cond 1 bullding ag e Commissioner thaught be erecte $225,000 pli ‘be thd figure. When the an ‘were oped yesterday It was thes the tugest be was $219,000 ent 000, The new station and te OMe ee a site on Greenwich hour an Cortlandt and Liberty streets, ee 780 LOOKING FOR WORK. found aaia Thay c Stole Bread er Mother, When the policeman caught up with the am or his se Antonio Stezgo {s the next upon the (;overnor's machine he waved a war. e. ener: ant nas t t calendar The paliid group beyond the ing w the eras a Wate stenra a rae ferrets Latte eadguarters at Norm | theeprisgner: 10: 6 Mt arr La SCE SC CERLUE HC ALL TAT See the motorcycle policema: ath street, sald 1 yesterday they had | body desires to ap, from jan boy appeers, carrying in his arms iH jooked hard and saw it was the De names of oO oo killed and un- esion of Justice Morschauser, and for | three loaves of bread not much smaller| Governor. He then whispered back to coat vio who ni that reason Thaw asks that he be than himself. In the rear of the room| the Lilley ba Sh ae oO. ble ead oe wi ia tome emp . substituted. Justice Tompkins took the | a faded women In a faded gown naris| 5S wanhhy ‘started hig engine and Gov, | oto Sane te shove mon, hey are ‘are papers and reserved his decision, | forward. but la feetrained by « brown: L>™ cy a | another cality the so-called leaders, in my opinion, would prefer some one else, but it is a hard matter to beat some the news was telepiioned there that the Governor was a candidate, The news dropped Ike a bomp shell in the camp as it had in other Republican quarter, and sent many of the leaders to cover, A poll of leaders, were they to speak their minds freely, would disclose a bit- ter opposition to Hughes, On the other hand, they are aware of the strong sentiment among the rank and file fa- voring the renomination of the Gove ernor, In his statement, issued last night @t | Saranac Inn, the Governor says: T have received so many t{nauiries a3 to my attitude toward a renomina- tion that I have decided to make the fol statement; “Some time ago I eald privately that I did not desire a renomination and that I felt that I could not undertake to serve a second term. This, however, was for reasons entirely personal, Upon further reflection I am convinced that I have no right to regard these reasons as controlling, and that if ree nominated I ought to accept. “But it is my desire that the will of the party to which I belong should be freely expressed, and that {t shall take ch action as shall be most closely im accord with public sentiment. I belleve that the people thoroughly understand the principles which I have sought to apoly In administration, and if they so |aesire, I shail regard {t as a orivileg land a duty to continue in office fer term “CHARLES FE. HUGHES.” . eS “AS I PREDICTED,” ODELL’S COMMENT, epee RG, N. Y., July he to-day sald, concerning tht announ natal of the candidacy of ast me ies for renomination, Gov,’ Hughes's statement {s no sure prise to me, It {8 actually what [have ‘been predicting for the past six months, There !s no question but the organiza. tion will accept Mr, Hughes, because to turn him down would cause the withdrawal of independent voters from the support of the Republican State ticket. "It ts a fact also, that in every lo one with no one. Up to this time there has been no erystallzation of sentiment in favor of any particular candidate. “Ambitious persons who are anxious to succeed Senator Platt will not look on the candidacy of Gov. Hughes with any favor, They would prefer some one who would openly. espouse thelr cause and would exert himself to pro- mote thelr individual candidacy, We Tiughes’s holding aloof from all comble ions or alignments with anv of the factions In the party makes him more generally satisfactory to the voters than any other man whose name hes been under consideration. Just how his nomination would affect the energetto support of those who look after the details of a campalgn it is too early to predict." |ROOSEVELT SILENT ON HUGHES’ STAND, OYSTER BAY, Y., July 25.—Preet dent Roosevelt said to-day he had ag “| comment to make at this time regards ing Gov, Hughes's announcement that he would accept a renomination if the Republican party desired him to be @ candidate. —— ny LIVE ALARM CLOCK DROVE AWAY SLE Neighbors Invoke Anti-Noise Rule to Silence Blumen- hein’s Rooster, Pollee Commissioner Bingham's ant noise crusade to-day put an effective gag on Eugene Blumenhein’s live alarm clock on the roof of his home at Noy 114 West Fifty-third street, For some time Eugene has had @ rooster and four hens on the roof, They have stirred him out at dawn each day, but Eugene, It seems, failed to take note that most of his neighbors retired In the wee hours and slept until late, The news of Bingham's order brought half a dozen vigorous complaints ta Mulberry street. Detective Corrigan arrived at the house last night and gathered In Blue menhein and his five pets. He took them to the West Forty-seventh street station and to-day arraigned them in the West Side Court, “What!” exclaimed Magistrate Breer / “does the Commissioner expect to sag / a rooster, All the laws on earth cannot do that. Charge this man with violat- ing the sanitary code by keeping room ers In his hous Riumenhein was held in $100 for trial ana started out of court. r What will I do with the evidence?" ‘igan “abt them in cold storage,” said the i tmenhetn, however, volunteered to ae the evidence end ship to the othy L. Woodruff, was in session when }