The evening world. Newspaper, December 15, 1908, Page 4

THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, DECEMBE NDS ROBBER FRENDS EELS | Miss Wheelan’s Clever De- : tective Work Leads to Re- “covery of Ornaments. AGAIN ON STAND Lawyer Rosenthal Causes Sur- prise by Recalling Head of the Trust. When the Government's case against the Standard Oi! Company was resumed Referee Ferris this morning Lawyet Rosenthal, the Standard’s prin- cipal counsel, surprised everybody by placing John D. Archbold upon the stand. He commenced the redirect ex- amination of the Standard’s executive head by asking about the Standard’s | connection with a man named Post, the a Through playing detective for four | owner of a large marketing concern in Germany. INTO “UNDER WORLD.” | nt | ; | before MLawyer's Daughter Mingles | ; With the “Other Half” in g . Her Daring Search. a He replied herself and | that of the 1062 miles in 1882, the Stan- Months Miss Florence C. Wheelan, an ees ewe Ry ir, Post, {t came out first, purehas Baemeaive) Youre women, “Cattgtiter ot | ee a he, DoukeoncAineet: peewerd F. Wheelan, a wealthy lawyer | xantsche Petroleum Gesellschaft, later A ot Newark, has recovered $60) worth of from the Pure oll Company, and re- tno” stolen from a friend last sum- | turned again to the German company = a buyer In 184, which hase Standard ) Miss Wheelan didn’t hesitate at any | connection @f the tricks which detectives are sup- | Mr, Archbold was asked if he had as | Posed to play—that is, on the stage and certained how many miles of trunk lines fn novels, When she thought she Was had been purchased and ‘on the track of the jewelry she took an | miles constructed in 1882. Gssumed name, disguised fwent to live near the persons from |dard Oll |} id butlt 1,042, 4) whom she expected to recover the stolen & property. She says she had a good time The witness then read off a mass of figures showing t e supply of oll Gy and learned a lot about phases of life |in this country was steadily decreasing ej that are barred to girls of her position. | while the supply of crude ofl in Russia ‘The jewels were lost last September | was steadily increasing. {et Highland Beach. Miss Wheelan's| Mr. Archbold supplied, as re- | mother, with three other women, all of | quested by Mr. ORE, a list of cor- a cpactod positions in West Orange so- | porations t were connected with | “y@lety, were on the beach and one of the | the trust agreement of 1882. {women gave the jewels to Mrs. Wheelan | to hold while she went in bathing. |has owned stock in the Water-Pierce When Mrs. Wheclan missed the orna-/ Company. With a short interval ever | ments the daughter decided that one of e then who had conducted pr man- | her mother's companions must be guilty. i the affairs of the company?" | RAIVeuRVOTEN bbe) Glerasiand /Sske) Sin iebeenthal: | Her detective work began Send eats P. Plerce or his immediate | # when she learned that one of the wo-| family “jiave always managed. the men was recetving calls from a Jersey | Water Pierce) Company's /vataira,,) rez ied Mr, Archbold. | City man wiio has a criminal record |PAty. “iosenthal next informed the | #the young woman transferred the scene | Federal lawyers that the witness had, of her activities'to that place. ax requested, made @ search for the 3 d rants _| books showing the transfers of stock Ft There she wore her disguise and min: interests of the companies interested in 2 gled with persons whom ordinarily she | the trust agreement. of 188), and that sMould never haye met. Through @| such records as had been found were chance remark dropped by a man she at the disposal of the Government. Mr. met in the Hotel Metropole she got | Kellogg replied that that was enitrely | trace of the jewels. ‘She cultivated this | Satistnctory, Such effects of incorporn, | Man and so worked on his sympathies, | tion as had been found were although he never suspected her iden: | Tted'in evidence KILLS MAN WHO SAID HE CHEATED Wife and Three Daughters of Slayer Arrive Too Late also | Was easier for me to work with the Woman, and the result was that I got back all the jewels except cne ring, y. I will get the ring to-day.” Miss Wheelan says her little trip into the underworld didn’t result in the loss ef any of her dignity, but that it has had the effect of making her look on life in general in a more, charitable way, | Bhe is contemplating writing a book, getting forth her experiences. ——.__—_ PROBATINERS ~ANGW THEY MUST j to Prevent Tragedy. ‘ — . Anton Merk, 1 embroiderer, who if boarded in the : idhonse of Jerome j Ss | Futharbor, at Paterson Plank Road and | Savoy street, North Bergen, was shot to So There Is No Harm in Parol-|seatn tn the barroom of thet place at 2 x i o'clock this morning by Conrad Her- ing Them, Witness wig, an ice dealer, or No. 933 Savoy | street Thinks, | Herwig and Cemtlre Vogel, of No. 2% Summit avenue, West Hoboken, were ; jshaking dice at the bar when Merk in- i | Ris book, he said, referred to an Italian |) @onfidence man who was paroled, thoug: jj he had no relatives or dependants { @New York. le was now working red kt Investigation of the probation system | terfered and charged the ice dealer with ‘J magistrates’ courts was continued this | cheating. They quarrelled and fought, morning before the commission appoint- | Mulharbor and Voge! separating them @1 by Gov. Hughes to conduct an inquiry; Herwig left the place, returning re relative to the inferior criminal courts, |@" hour later, He asked for a drink, Probation Officer Igucrs repeated his | Which wae served on his promise not to @ssertion that Italian probationers un- , #art fighting again. Merk was sitting @erstood the necessity of “ceping | * Soret are straight” while on parole. One entry on three daugh Herwig tu volver and The slayer that t Q upoi as soon A that he had come hoi ay his revolver s ne Herwig for | @n employment agency. | 1p. MACFARLANE. NAMED 10 PASS CN HAFFEN vu U —_-—_ “Don’t you think it dangerous £ Men of that kind to be pe Work in an employment axen he comes tn contact with ignorant fel- “ow countrymen?” 1 Julius M, | Mayer, counsel to the commission. “No,” replied the “He is on at fe 0) Kr cep witness said, was in Goy, Hughes Chooses Ex- Federal Proseculor to Hear Mayor’s Charges ther rt, was aneptem ber ad ben ne a disappeared, ie had looked bs, but had not believed tho pro ane, of New York, io take and hear the charges of the testimony the Commiastoners on 4 fres! alleged Irregularities in office against 5 a! Pr 1 F. Haffen, of the for r ot Bronx, filed with the ‘Accordingly if you met him | 3 or at the instance of Mayor Mc- t YOU could not arrest ‘ 5 f New Y and based upon i fot unless 1 sav Magistrate and of @wore ou: @ warrant “ah OLD “TOMMY” DOYLE “Fommy"” Doyle died ntone Wttle furnished roor + DROWNED POLICE CHIEF'S BODY FOUND IN FRISCO BAY. third street. He ght ‘ old and w known aro 4 the bs Pec. 16.—The body stage managers, who ‘ i “ey, who wag employment as | @!owned recently from the police launch Patrol, was found to-day foating in the ras @ veteran of the Civt! War bay. it was brought to city. " uuteer fire ——— = Years 4 he left his * Be A _STARRETT'S PLEA DENIED, pages Re peuscd 40 allon that| Theodore Starrett's application for ound the | spp rintment of & Feceiver for | the a, | Thompson: me » builders, called | from ‘which ‘he withdrew’ {x January, ane | Se eee ee ustice Seabury to-day JOHN D. ARCHBOLD. AT OL INQUIRY “Since 1S7$ it seems the Standard Oil | TRIED T0 BARGAIN “WITH COURT: GOT A 39 YEAR TERN Next to Longest Sentence for Burglary to Man Who Wanted to Dicker. SAID HE’D REVEAL LOOT. Judge Rosalsky Spurned Offer to Tell Where $30,000 Siegel Paintings Are Hid. Rosalsky tn the Court of General Ses sions for sentence to-day James De Rosa, a convicted burglar with a long Tecord, sent word to the court that if dealt with lentently he would reveal where $20,000 worth of paintings stolen from the Mamaroneck home of Henry Siegel two years ago were hidden. Judge Rosaisky retorted that he was not in with criminals, and sentenced De Rosa to thirty-nine years In Sing Sing Prison with hard labor. De Rosa te thirty-two years old and wae convicted of felony five times before. The burglar’s sentence ts the long est, except one, on record. The crime | for which he was sent away as an habitual offender was committed on Nov. 15 iast in the home of Peter A. Johnson at No. %2 East Two Hundred jand Second street, the Bronx Held Up Woman with Pistols. De Rosa and Herry Hartman jim- mied their way into the Johnson home, went Into the sleeping room of Miss Mary Johnson and threatened her with revolvers. They stole $16 and were both caught by a policeman while es caping. When Hartman was arraigned Judge Rosalsky sentenced him to not less than nine years. It was his first con- viction of a felony. In passing these two sentences the Court said: “Burglars must under- stand they have got to quit working in this city. In every case that comes up before me I intend to gtye the limit ntence the law provides.” De Rosa asked Lieutenant-Detective O'Netil to tell the Judge that he would reveal where the Siegel paintings were [if he would get a light sentence. The burglar's wife and two men | broke into the Siegel home in January, | 1907, stealing a truckload of aintings, silverware and art objects. The three 6! thet his wife, is now serving @ two-year term, informed him where the stolen paint- ings were hidden. Tf the Court did not Ighten his sen- tence, the burglar said. the paintings would never be recovered. declared, who had though, | Harry Blum, twenty-eight years old, | of No, 25 West Twenty-second street, Was sentenced to nine years and nino months in Sing Sing for burglary com- mitted in the home of Ernest W. Gay, {at No. it Fifteen.h etreet, on Dec. 4 Inst. John Ryan, thirty-nine years old, | whose frst burglarious offense was (6 | break into the home of Martin J. Kane, | at No. 201 Bast One Hundred and Twen- jty-sixth street, on Dec. 5 last, was | sentenced to not less than two’ years and nine months. DUTCH CAPTURE ANOTHER VESSEL OF CASTRO'S NAVY Warships Overhaul Coast Guard Ship, Land Crew and Take Prize to Caracas. | | WILLEMSTAD, battle-ship Heemsgirk ar- in at 8 o'clock this | Morning towing as a prize the Venemue- Dec Jacob Van j rived the harbor lan coastguard vessg) "23 de Mayo,” | Word of the capture had already been recolved here and a great throng of peo- Ple lined the quays to witness the e trance of the Duteh battle-ship conduc ing her capt within the harbor. | The flag of the Netherlands hed been holated to the peak of the captured Venezuelan coastguard ship, and astern of the Dutch flas floated the Venezuelan jcolors, Although the Venezuelan flag |was stil! shown, i was in minor contrast |to the Dutch pennant flying from :nain- mast and foremast both of the warship | and tte prize. —_—— HOW TO MAKE HOLIDAY STOCKS STEP LIVELY. Let Greater New York know what you {have for sale and where your shop, |store or market ts located, | The net paid cliy ctroulation of the Morning, Evening and Sunday World exceeds that of any other Morning, Eve ning and Sunday newspaper combined © than 3,000,000 copies per month Now you know tn which news your advertised announcement BHOU. be printed. | if you order your World ad. printed for seven consecutive days the cost per |day will be the lowest, and the re- ts will probably be pi ‘aotory. | Order a "7-Day "Worl vertikement |without further delay. Christmas shop- ing whil noon be over. Now's the time {fo make business hum, —_—— TWO SONGS WITH NEXT SUNDAYS WORLD, © Geto LD Before being arraigned before Judge! the habit of making bargains | 15.—The Dutch | NEW THEATRES CORNER-STONE 1S LAID BY MAYOR | —_so | Letter from Roosevelt Is Read | at Ceremony Attended by Prominent Men. KL. MARTIN IS CHIEF ENGINEER OF BRIDGE DEPT. Son of First Handler of East River Pontine Traffic Gets New Job. With a allver trowel and tn the midst of an Interesting ceremonial Mayor Me- Ctellan taid the cornerstone of the New ‘Theatre, the handeome bullding being | bultt in Central Park West, between | Sixty-second and Sixty-thind stree |and which is intended to be the temple of the “higher dramatic art” tn Amer- foa—to this country what the Theatre Francais ts to France. Many persone distinguished in the Iit- | erary, dramatic and public life of New | York, assembled tn the vestibule of the building, which was handsomely deco- rated. The ceiling was hung tn smilax and chrysanthemums, dotted with hun- dreds of small incandescent bulbs, and there were numerous sta ancient armor set against the walls, which were eovered with valuable tapestries: The founders of the New Theatre who were present were: Joln Jacob Astor, | George F. Baker, Edmund L. Raylies, August Belmont, C Paul D. Cravath, Wil Field, Henry Clay Fric Gary, George J. Gould, Archer M. Huntington, ¢ W. de Lancey Kountze, Mackay, J. Pierpont Yorgan, James Stim Hamilton McK. Twombly, Robert B. Van Cortlandt, Cornelius Van- derbiit, William K, Vanderbilt, Henry rs, Harry Payme Whitney, M. Orme Wilson and Henry Rogers Win- | t Field Bishop, A m RB. Osgood Elbert H. ot Gregory, to H. Kahn, Clarence H throp, | There were also present Winthrop Ames, the director; Lee ert, bust ness manager, and John Corbin, Mter- ary manager. Wiltam K. Vanderbilt, president of the founders, introduced Mayor Moe- jan. Other addresses were Augustus TI President John R. lege of the City of The following letter Roosevelt was read: “WHITE HOUSE, Ws of the Col- York. from Prestdent SHINGTON, Sov. 13, 1908. ‘Genth to express hearty s for the under. ng in which you are engaged. As 1 ndersiand {t, your purpose In estab ‘w Theatre is to ney njoy what 4 ally beautiful, what tends to give the right kind of reliof and relaxation from the strain and ten- sion of daily work. in cordial sympathy with your aim to give special encour- agement to both playwrignts and. ac tors who are native to our soil, and [| observe with especial pleasure the fact that the statutes under whieh your theatre will he run j je that it ts to be without any t t of protit, that any pecun tes which ma result from its operation shall be use ation of 2n endowment anc for the maintenance of | matic art, and for other me kind for the « Pension fund, a school of 4 ba D "ith all good wisnes belleve me sin- cerely yours, i} FONORE ROOSEVELT.” A. cho: sang a written es- Perey e, the by » and Richard play- with the sing d Banner” b: the young a donna. a ECK GREW FAST. 000 to $430,000 Mind of Owner. hatred THIS CH | R neatly dressed, gray little |man walked into the Hast One Hun- \ dred and Twenty-six and Ss reet station t asked for five pol help him get posseaston of | day ir or 8 a check for $3 or $4,000 * he and {f you will policemen I can get it e to think of it that check 1s for | com jlend 1c the Heu- ayked ‘Thirteen thousand?” | tenant Did T say $13,007" as man mildly. “T meant to say $130,001 : got the » lance was summoned from’ t) Hospit al id a lodgin One Hundred a It’s Time Los | arguing with persons whose obstinacy retu to listen to logic. Those persons will con- tinue to buy glasses from jew- ellers and department store salespeople witjl, by their own unhappy experience, they have been PROVED wrong. ‘“Wis- dom profits by the experience of others.” Come here—You are as- th nal services of cians, who are skilled Oculists, and hack- ing of a house of reputation and responsibility. Harris Oculisis are not “guessers.” Glasses, if needed, $1 and more, ' YN, An audience of about 300, including | 97 | iis dicenei Mthe It | (One of Chief Engineer Ingersoll's Kinsley L. Martin has been appoint- ed Chief Enginerr of the Bridge De- partment In place of Colin M. Ingersoll, resigned. Mr. Martin {s a son of the late C. ©. tin, for many years Chief Engineer of the Brooklyn Pridge. The salary {s $10,000 a year, Mr, Ingersoll will remain with the Bridge Department as consulting engineer at the request of the Mayor and Commisstoner Steven- great contributions to the welfare of the city and the Bridge Department was the reconstruction of the Brooklyn Bridge platforms #o through elevated train could be run during tie rush hours. Commissioner Stevenson sald to-day that he had selected Mr. Martin be- cause there was no better disciplinarian in the department. T! is nobody who knows the and its work better, Kingsley L. Martin was born in Brooklyn in 1962. He was educated in the Brooklyn Polytect 1 ft epartment restd Bridge. A he was made engineer and also engineer in charge of the Brook- lyn Bridge and the bridges in Brooklyn nd Richmond. Mr. Martin is a member of the Amer- a nelety of Civil ngineers and of of B i MIRA MUSIC You can play any num-, ber of different popular and classical selections on_a single instrument. The modern Mira Mu- sic Box affords you an endless repertoire of the sweetest, mellowest, most wonderful music. you have ever heard, Free concerts, daily. Popular and Classical airs, Edison Phonographs | Mira Music Boxes Victor Talking Machines and records gladly demon- strated. Sold on moderate monthly payments. Two stores—open evenings. Broadway near 17th Street. Fifth Avenue near 31st Street. Established in 1883, JACOT MUSIC CO. 39 Union Square 292 Fifth Ave. For Any Lady N Chamois Jacket 2 9 from fashlonabl. in all wzeg, and ny cial #izen made to order own favtory. ont inaker to Wearer profit only. D RIKER DRUG STORES quality and Where hie low “prices relen su: prame, One Hundred and Thirty-Seven Payable in CA>H or on LIBERAL TERMS of ChEDIT, will secure a COMPLETE OUTFIT jor an Al ARTME, equal in value to that inable elsewhere at not less than £165. Inspection @f this ara other outfits in'b: ranjing from $50 up, LOW PRICE | That Has Made Our |) Establishment Popu- lar to Customers, CASH OR CREDIT. sbsghs eae OPEN EVENINGS Me ieoo 7698 TILL XMAS, aie aehnied R 165, 1908. | What Christmas Buyers Find at Lamberts’ First of all, a magnificent stock of exclusive and fascinating jewel pieces, mostly made by our+ selves, All the jewelry that all the people can possibly desire. A fine store, although it is in a street where rents are not high and where storekeeping is a less gorgeous AND THEREFORE A LESS COSTLY BUSINESS than in some other parts of the town, Courteous attention always and to everybody. Complete assortments of gold and diamond jewelry, watches, clocks, silverware, opera glasses, of aueaulls a perfectly equipped jewelry store ought to havi Owest of prices, made possible by our being large manufacturers, by the direct importation of diamonds, by the spot cash system of buying what we do not make. Gifts bought now may be left in our vaults, if desired, until you want them. Only a few pictures and descriptions are given here. Our ILLUSTRATED CATALOG is brime ful of others. It and our holiday book, “WHAT TO GIVE,” are sent free to any address. , ou Diamond Economies It {s worth while to buy your diamonds of us, because every diamond is directly imported by ourselves and registered. The solid 14-karat gold, hand-made mountings of the rings here illustrated come from our own factory. Our buyer of diamonds had his pick among the finest ones mined in South Africa within the year, when he visited London and Amsterdam a few months ago. | | c=— | | | Splendid cluster of | A radiant Christmas | Fine white solitaire, nine fine diamonds, q gift. Fine white dia- | in handen fi blazing in solid 14> mond, mounted in i % : > karat gold and plat- solid 14-karat gold, 14-karat gold maunt- mounted in solid 14- hand-made mounting, inum, yet the price is $25.00. ing, $50.00, karat gold, $75.00. $90.00. only $50.00. Other Diamond Rings, Solitaires and Ciusters from Ten Dollars to Fifteen Hundred Dollars. Ifyou wish to exchange any singie-stone diamond ring bought of us within a year for one with a larger diamond, we will allow you the full price of the smaller one. So'id Gold Brooches spaarkling with precious stones, reflecting the lates ideas of fashion’s leaders, are It would be vain to expect that these delightful Christmas gifts could be Come and see the brooches, We show several contrasting styles. ant diamond, Beautiful diamond, perfectly cut, and id 14-karat gold de sol li so Brooches cf solid gold, made in new and beautiful forms. fairly represented in newspaper pictures In this brooch of solid 14-karat gold Solid gold, set wi amethyst, with safety 86.75. 10 - karat rose finish, choice fitted catch, Solid 14-karat gold t mel ch and ponent a glisten seven careful- : i : se col urst, with fine diamoni , re mounting soli centre and selected | Selected diamonds, a gold; cepearls in the rays, |A Sift of rare beauty .00. $33.50. for $65.00, Fi has yet produced. gold chains that the man We Guaraniee All Watches s has an up-to-date movement that has stood hard tests 5 a demand for it. No discontinued movements, no watch- y watch down to the lowest in price 1s guaranteed. You can depend on it that any watch and tha’ rer keeps ¢ d their way bought of u nto our store Here is a mais This picture of a solid 14- watch {n 14-karat karat gold watch for a woman solid gold hunting | shows the effect of engraved case, with back monogram on the back of the plain for no- plain hunting case, Waltham, Elgin $22.50, gram, which we or Lambert works; will engrave with- out extra charge. | Full jewelled “sl | Other Solid Gold Hunting Case Watches for Men, $ tham, 2.50 up Lambert $350.00, Elgin or in Solid 14-Karat Gold Open-Face Cases, Karat Hunting Case Filled Watches, for men, Waltham, Elgin or Lambert $15.00 up. Chains in Many Shapes let us also show you some of the finest solid $21.00. Women’s Solid 14- Watches, $16.50 up. Gold. warranted for 20 years, Works, works; Gold watches, this line we While hi the who leads Oren curb, solid 14-karat abc ens urb, old, single, t 11% inches long, $25.50; Dick- rom pocket to pocket), $34.50. Braid pattern, solid 14-karat go single, $24.50. naan Dickens (from pocket to pocket), $32.75, Other Vest Chains in Solid Gold from $9.00 to $60.00. Best Gold Filled Vest Chains in the World, $3 to $10 ming ornaments and are chains are variously useful, as they may be worn with watches, lorgnettes and tans, 4ssoclated with the Di- rectoire style of dress. Here is a rope pattern, solid 14-karat gold. Slide has Greek border and This one, solid 14-karat gold, has eleven diamonds in the slide, yet the price is only $100, because we im- ported the diamonds direct and so saved importers’ and jobbers’ profits. a es long, $9.51 tw ; Other Solid Gold Guard Chains, 48 dpshea pn, 3) bres mie Diamonds, $16.50 up; Gold-Filled Latest Bracelet Designs 5 bracelet you can save much money and giv y adding to the stock of solid gold bracelets, ; some that do not open at all, some richly engraved, If you are going to give somepody a Chris e much pleasure if Some that open , others’ plain. you buy it at Lamberts’, Our tactory is constan with a’hinge and close with a lo original designs We make f bracelets, set with diamor id 14-karat gold, plain Re ae ae Roman bangle \d, $18.75. bracelets, with fine diamond, $16.60, Engraved in floral pattern, solid 14-karat gol Other Solid Goid Bracelets, $6.00 up, Signet-Ring Popularity Grows hour In the day customers are asking to see our solld gold signet rings, which are more {n request than ever ae Eahiatinas presents. Our tier to engrave monograms on them without charge holds good, but we must repeat our request that engraving orders be placed early, 90 that nobody will be disappointed, Pierced design, Good etl Roman ring, als rn Yin solid itr emblems, s0!-| cawed, solid with raised rethy prin ir gold, rose fin- Photo, 1086 cole Wy ~ but $6.75. ish, $7.00, h or, $7.25, work $20.00, ‘ | f Other Solid Gold Signet Rings, $1.75 to $35.00, OPEN EVERY NIGHT IN DECEMBER Lambert Brothers'== Say So, I MANUFACTURING JEWELERS hates Third Avenue, Cor. 58th Street If Lamberts Say So, it Is So