The evening world. Newspaper, November 13, 1908, Page 1

\ / Tk You SHOULD Tre BANANA PEEL DUR’ REMEMBER - — Tr vou eur 1 THey qT REMEMBER -- ~~~ THIS i RESULTS EDITION WEALTHY MAN SLAIN IN PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD STATION Walter Ammon, Prominent in Busi- ness Circles, Shot Down in Midst of Big Crowd at the Jersey City Terminal. Walter Ammon, one of the most prominent business men and_ financiers of Jersey City, was shot and instantly killed this afternoon in the Pennsylvania Railroad station by a man named Andrew McGrat). Differences arising cut of a business transaction between the two men| led to the tragedy. The shooting took place in the midst of a crowd of people in ihe plaza of the station between the ferry landings and the waiting rooms. | McGrath. was jumped upon and disarmed before the smoke of the re- | volver had blown away from ihe scene of the shooting. He refused to talk when locked up at Police Headquarters, Mr. Ammon was a .nember of the firm he confessed. Pressed by the police he of Ammon & Person, manufacturers of | Ade this statement and dealers in butter and butter prod-| ,“! bad business relations with Ammon. | resulted disastrously for me. So fed him,” ne ucts, He was a director of the Third|] sete National Bank and Commercial Trust| ey Con Col, Robert Ammon was told of his Company of Jersey City, eaten of) brother's tragic death at his office, No. 1 the Union League Club, and h diverst- | proadw ay. He called up the Com-| fled interests in many industrial enter-|s.crciai ‘Trust Company of Jersey cley prises His at) wapiat 3 me uy ee nd was given some of the details i vonia avenue, Jersey City ol, Robert! Robert Ross, the first vice-president of | A. Ammon, of this city, is his brother. | 0) twticn i Knew Ammon's Habit. “I never heard of McGrath,” said Col. In common with most of the business | Ammon, “until you mentioned his name and professional men having offices in| @S that of the slayer of my brother. 1} the downtown section of Jersey City, “mt Id by Mr. Re that McGrath is Mr. Ammon went to the restaurant in, ingrate. My brother started him in the Pennsylvania Raltroad station every | Dusiness and helped him after he failed. | day for his lunch, This fact was well|/8tely McGrath, according to Mr. Ross, | known to McGrath, who was at one time | 4 been making #0 many demands connected with the Ammon & Person| "pon Walter that he was turned down| frm. or) avaneaanally, heishot his benefactor, | knew him to leave a ferry boat from years ago when he was seventeen years New York et the most northerly slip|0!d. He started in business in Jersey | in the atation shortly after noon, He | funeral wit take “lace ioe hittan eee | walked across the plaza to the waiting at our old home there, Walter was une | room and into the restaurant, where he | Married Jooked over the tables, In Financial Trouble. ‘At that time he was looking for Mr.| McGrath was well known in Jersey | Ammon and would doubtless have shot Wag the oleomargarine | sini . but recs him in the restaurant, But Mr. Ammon | inet iw eeiand cola tary had not arrived. McGrath then went to | isons he f business, "He also Te transferred his home to hia wife. The | the head of the stairway leading up | police “say they have learned he had | from Exchange place to the main floor| been drinking heavily. He told a friend of the railroad station. He knew that whom he met mile. on ihe ay to the = vay of {Police station that he shot Ammon be- Mr, Ammon would enter by that way of |Ciusg Ammon sald something to. him, the Exchange place stairs, BS th’s drinking habits got him in- Waite for His Victim. to trouble with his wife a few weeks ago, Upon her complaint he was sen- Clutching a revolver in his pocket, |tenced to jail on a charge of drunken- McGrath waited for nearly fifteen min- | hat hel Gal Rene Aim none utes. Then Mr, Ammon, who was more thing to do with his commitment than’ six feet tall and more than a |to Jail match for McGrath physically, entered uo these Hal ws amr met a Don’t Care Who spoke to Willard Fiske, a lemyer. 3 fr Fiske had seen McGrath at the head of Owns Outlook, Says Roosevelt the stairs, but did not connect bis pres: | ence there with any danger to Mr, Ammon, A Cortlandt streot ferryboat had just arrived, and there was considerable din and confusion as Mr. Ammon reached SRS yo oh the plaza and turned to the left toward WASHINGTON, Nov. 18.—In connec: | the restaurant entrance MeGrath | Un with the publication in New York to-day of a story to the effect that the stepped up to him and, without a word, fred bullet into tls head, Outlook Magazine, with which Presi- As the wounded man was falling Me-|4ent Roosevelt has signed a contract Grath fired two me shots. Both yk | {9 become an associate editor, is con- effect, McGrath turned to run, but was | {led by James H, Stillman, desig- Caught in the crowd and held until Po- |Bated as “The Bilent Man’ of lceman Herman Ammon—who 4s not |5'andard Ol! party, the trusted business related to the dead man's familly—ran | S##oclate of "“Malefactors of great —— wealth nd “the friend, aide and ad- d placed lim undei up from the street and placed him under | WS) Peaeiarelantura tention rest. 7 Saye forth from the White House to-day the MoGrath was hustled to Police Head-| (oho wine omicial tetement Mot pwan, a a gatems of the t quarters. John ‘The President has not the slightest man: ¥allx M nae »neern th the question as to who Philip Klein, witne are the stockholders of the Outlook. went along. H ern iy with gener At first McGrath denied the shooting whi rev but when confronted with thy Witnesses eadsnteatia iatatens eae dent will ot the = The } x for what he himself writes; THE HUB CLOTHING CORNER, provavie gis atcitume must ts #47 AND 220 BROADWAY, by his action ta the past Cor, Marclay St, Opp. Pomt-bie Are selling HOH Mee Winter Ove OHO S60 coats or Bulls, all sis WM to 4, Bluv. ry ‘their ieee, Tae gray, ior to-day and k ats Hub ar uy to-day, You save Brox prise. “Open Saiurday night till ddr? Omics. respons' “ Circulation Books Open to All.”” | algnation, confessed to theft had | Johnston sug; (in oreo PRY WILLIE T Ive DECIDED y | MARRY Jd rth RARLY BIRD / AD ON A STRAY ING THE DAY Tr your wirt NOG THAT © A\ NOT A’ THE OFFICE WORK 410 GIVES YOu_THE ICY NO Andy THE ‘ PRONCUNCES IT (ASFINAL) REMEMBER - - REMEMBER - - FRIDAY, THE 13TH! You WOULD E Is | Judge io Whom Jerome Almost . Used Shorter and Uglier Word. JEROME IN FURY ASSAILS JUDGE ON THE BENCH In Heated Language Resents Mulqueen’s Intimation That He Aids Pawnbroker DEMANDS EXPLANATION | Declares That Any One Who | Makes Such a Remark | Does Not Tell Truth. Fairly trembling with suppressed In- District-Attorney broke in on a trial in Part I. of General Sessions this afternoon to demand an Jerome explanation from Judge Mulqueen, who was sitting on the bench, of certain language which, the Judge had just ed. For ten minutes the two men had it hot and heavy, back and forth. A week ago Judge Mulqueen com- mitted to the Tombs for contempt of} court Donald Cameron, ma Forty-second street branch of § the pawnbroker, who failed to pqoduce | a diamond which a man who afterward | ger of the} pawned Through his lawyer Cameron got a writ of habeas corpus returnable next week, and has since been on parole. To-day Assistant District ed to Jud; that It would be a good ide Cameron to purge himself of con: Judge Gets Excited. Johnston went on to exp a subpoena calling for the ; the diamond was not directe eron, but merely to the ma of the establishment, and this | SEISITONFIRE KILLS HIMSELF ty in the employ of the pawn So | of New York?” he demanded. Six Young Men Arrested at the | Victim Who Refused io Elope Attorney personally hire a lawyer to proj represent the court in these proce ings.” Before he could say more Jo was on his way upstairs to tr chlet what had happened. In le a minute Jerome stalked into Di : b very red in the face. Bre. ection of put H leo n * abruptly on the proceedings in = epury With Negro, Dying in on, Mr. Jerome called for an explana Fire Masshal. Hospital tion of the Judge's remarks ai ospital. “If you mean to make any sé al — on my office or the mep on my F ldeM late make it personally to me aiheroline shouted the Distri rn “You have been misinformed,” said atreet Judge Mulqueen, who caimed down con- | ttl: " x young ole siderably didn’t put my words in 1 tting fire n- | e an offensive way, I sald that it looked ! at N Lexingt : almost as if the District-Attorne: rvs POH UR Cg acting for the pawnbre tenar \ on awa ‘ this young underling - th 5 one, and |" Almost “Shorter and Uglier.” = | Mi Minuto | , in| eal . This underling, as you call him, ts a |'Cht on ¢ Wan sum : paid and trusted officer of this county, |"! iw Mt acting directly for interrupted 94 an Jerome, “and any. c any position Ned 4 ! who intimates that as my eRe ; ead, ano Bait sentative, or any one in my office Is , seeking to ald the pawbnrokers, or any |M0" the i A not " re, mister,” at one else, does not e truth," A LU aes we woma mem pushed hi At this juncture Judge Mulqueen be- Mi! dayne oe thought himpelf to or pera | MT, Lotte \ : una # pher not to take notes. Was t bu Aa NH District-Attorney and th ‘ ft oat ned the di warmly in an undertone f nee t the doo » floor Jerome came away, at the end of ten sel on econd “with Bene minutes, he was smuling a smile of grin v Aire ¢ \ , Aviv nae ned content, but refused to tell what haa {i ‘ . t : passed, It wag said, however, that ae t had fairly outdone all his past perfor $100,000 FOR ARMY RECRUIT. elances as @ master of invective prey ms resian ee satire. eruit in the —_— day he was COOPERS INDICTED FOR KILLING OF CARMACK, ivi ‘sick for the oe 9 ASHYVIL nt The ny he's \ jrand Jury this afters 1 i 1 true bill agaloat Robin « Col, f D. Goaper BHA Oeil nD BRYAN GOING TO MEXICO Sharp. charging them with the murder , of former United States Senator B. w,| NCO N Carmack. fre, William ! ave Sur ome With Joy ok reat oct ¢ erar rarer ‘aa une Slagers “Al thie Horse “sow ui ‘ f Soulig® Roman ‘Tose’ from end threw ‘excl SR Ga | erzemesares kta wtn IF TONIGHT Your Best GiRL UNEXPF REMEMBER - - - | “ Circulation Books Open to All."' | | NEW YORK, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 138, 1908. Pad W € + CTED Boost St ON THIS DAY ! arid, WARDMAN HE LEVIED GRAFT FOR HIS CAPTAIN +o— SEASWELLIN. FRONT AGAIN AT LATONA TRACK a Tillman Confesses Having Collected $25 a Month From Moving Pic- ” Dame : ture Show Proprietors in Beats Sally Preston, a 15-to-1 Shot, With Dainty Third in Fourth E |CLAIRBORN A SURPRISE. vent. Jamaica Precinct. PLACED IT ON COMMANDER'S % DESK IN STATION, HE SAYS. {At 12 to 1 in the Betting He Runs Away With the | | Second Race. | | <td RE oa \iiraey, Faces Trial at Police Headquarters Soon | i TRACK, LATONIA, ‘Nov. | After His Alleged “Collector’’ Teils Story, | Which Those Who Paid Tribute Cor- | Is were the rule to A | randicap at six furlongs, fourth on the card, was the feature. FIRST RACE-—Six furlongs. roborate on Witness Stand. | oven andl to % won, | Medoera, 10) (E. Martin), 15 to 1, 6 to.1 and 3 to 1, second. Sister Phyllis, 100 (A. Martin), 7 to 4, Bto2 a third. Time, 1.18 4-5, Battl . Reclte, St. Cotton, Ken- 4 ae A . Whent ad, Btowaway, of a moving picture show i li, English Lass, Colmo and ily Almanac also ran. ECOND RACE-Six fu Capt. Patrick K. Tracy was placed on trial at Police Headquarters d with extorting $25 a month from the proprietors in charge of a this afternoon, cl Jamai , where he precinct until three weeks ago. Arthur Tillman, a patrolman, who acted as the precinct plain- clothes man for Capt. Tr cted $150 at different i picture people a ngs. 2 to 1, & to 103 “(Devrich), § to 1, 3 to second. a, 100 (A ato 2, third swore t Martin), § to 1, a SP Aa ., Tracy’ rae #'° times from the movi ped it into Capt. Tracy’s desk at the station house. | » charges last nnmissioner pf Accounts. picture proprietors told Co ry Mitehel that they were not and 1 to up by the License Bureau, Floreal, Martin), § to 1, 8 to 1 to pay tril he ro but hac ute to the police, |*%metoa.t Geoyge H. Bristol told of paying money eburg Il, Olive Ely and Irrigator to Tilman : Hs Wardman Makes Confession. {TH RACK—Six furlongs. Time— 8, Martin), 11 to 5, 4 to Genisalaneen Noncnen “ ICAI ie) CA. Martin), 25 to 1, his t that he wag indicted fe second, perjury. Fellowing this, he volunteer t —_>— n= r of the License Bur 4 to 1, ispute, (Glasner), | | | i 4 Dainty Dame to 5 and out, third Hanbridy FIFTH RACE—Five and one-half fur- » (J. Butler), 2 to 1, 3 bout the matte confession involymg o tell ali he ki and mal and Terah also ran a fu Capt. Tracy } longs. -} le q q ade Frie 3 as the firs! vitness: led tio, M ar aidan ai tal Ss aares Bade Frien Bete wa th frat witness enlird Marmorean. 114 Grim), § to 1, 8 to 1 Farewell and Took son dhe was r movi and $ to 2, second pleture show In Fulton s Jama: | Harriet Rowe, jto Sand ont, third A (Kennedy), 6 to 5 ne, 1104. Poison in Room. last April, in parcnership with a man Whitaker, ‘Bose » Hrown Jug, named Kdwards. Capt. Tracey called | Clay, Hasty, Western Knight 2 4] times and talked to In Hood also ran of the conversations » put $23 In an ene 1 1 it to Mrs. Edwards, it tol ‘oung man, supposed Lo A well | si Jmiles, purse $400, for three-year-olds and pe Prank J H RACE—One and one-sixteenth Jup; selling, #5 (KB, Martin), 7 to , 8 to Zand took cyanide of 7 the Hotel Manhat eman 1 k the st hu 1 bought Bristol out late in April, Every month after that, |up to and inejuding iber, she said, (Griffin, 16 to 1 Le Bla nid ly Gi. Butler), IL to third. led before relief could reach hin manner of Adams's death was un- He called a bell boy to his room said in each insta F 4, Quagga, | ¥8Y bs pi eam band ga 1 a montit f E ality’ ede, | andl aaken him t0 6al) Up wD the understanding that it was to ea rane en tie: telebnan eee OU | go to Capt, ‘Tracy return for the Pushed Gribe Under Blotter. ‘Just called up to ta ta, old chi the next t see me I'll be 8 Tilin was worn and testified to next warld, maybe working at anothe ting t As the vious B | trade ‘ y is Kit, He Whi 6 bi vid doit otter on Justice Truax Signs Injunction ura fount to are Je of jt ily. Ca iilin Gancaine hacen To-day Restraining Police Attn. 4) pialeannaitil zest mvlen tie nuplien antenscinhaneae the a v the blotter, for Capt 1 edt to a gruelliagt ninat Tilman admittdat Ad Given false test sndee rs of Ac From Interfering ou ed a Manhatta altel 1 went for pers 7 ! : + rock al ihe ; t any merey because of ; 4 i Mary: t k Mor- Ua , tre He made "Pin udmitted that he did. 2 ie ‘y Ae : ayes : is hot trying to impHeage anid he did i 4 Ms apt ivi to wave bhweelte 8 mE AOREAKE apt. T lefense is that if Dip die : Was grafting he was king 0) - act is not k Tian has ais 4 snail grip und r pay singe caring 1 on 1 while Tr ispicon’ Mithoutpayy iat was called fp stig Judge tion to hs t whieh reatra j iron Mt , fering. | burt fay the legitimate AU ater i lub membe to the. club-house ; ; : and secured thelr tickets. Baldwin and a wad | | : Driscoll will enter the ting about. 10.45 Niiman says he left on the to > ad Mad Pranks of “Mile, Mischief.” hie . Tracy will take the stand ia THE HUB CLOTHING CORNER, ,,m,citstins=s' cits, auie ate ge] on oa ha elt all 7 AND 220 BROADWAY, Sppeariag in the. ring in wb onda ¥ relay Opp. Post-OmMee, She wae rinend ett rary Lula ites an eer a “STOMACH (HOLME FOR 10 © 2 iIk‘lined. Sen's Qvercoats Gg) Minchtet’ at the tric in’ order to*findsout. cuted vag of ENN ei r- ned lene Overcoste 4 be bo} inh at the 7 writes lip Logue. Jker an $28 Tailor-made Overcoat oe | tee ee? * ‘6 oe Nines *