The evening world. Newspaper, January 4, 1909, Page 1

If You Liked “The Spoilers” You Will Revel in This—It Is Better Than “The Spoilers” r THE ee ee Rex Bee A LTE) Romance—The Best Story the ‘etl, “ Circulation Books Open to All." | | . PRICE ONE CENT. JANUARY 4, 1909, “PRICE ONE CENT THORNTON HANS, ON STA if 60 CENT GAS UPHELD CHARGES MADE BY STATE WINESSES sais ters es Gift to Manhattan’ States Gives the Lighting Monopoly In New York a Knock-Out Biow i By Sustaining Law. GAS COMPANIES MUST PAY i ' BACK MORE THAN $10,000,000 1,390,496 | i 1,384,720 f WEATHEN-1 “ Circulation Books Open to All.” | NEW | RESULTS EDITION ———=s YORK, MONDAY, — $e —- With Dramatic Effect He Recites to Jury the Story on Strength of | Which He Hopes to | Escape the Chair. DREW HIS PISTOL ONLY TO | PROTECT BROTHER, HE SAYS. Widow of Slain Man Hears Him Swear That He; Never Threatened Her or Pointed His Gun at Any One on Yacht Ficat. ' There is due to ihe people of Manhattan and the Bronx from the Con- | | iT. hornton Hains on Siand Telling solidated and other gas companies more than 10,000,000 in rebates: of Events That Led (6) Annis Murder eet | ae tice Hee been Maine for a since May 1, a ot! this sum there is in the hands of United States Commissioner Shields the [total of $9,928,770, which has been holding out since last October, owes the rest, | } The money held by Commissioner Shields is deposited in the following national banks: \ Citizens ...........---------.--.-. $1,376,442 | Hanover .......------- eee eee e eee Merohants)-.cscccccccsccne secre Seaboard . Importers and Traders... Total. e---+---- $8,928,770 | | Estimated interest. = | i | 400,000 “he Eighty-Cent Gas bill was declared) constitutional in’ a decision ( Estimated grand total. -- $9,328,770 handed down by the United States Supreme Court in Washington this! } ‘This great sum will soon be distributed to the consumers of gas who| afternoon, and The Evening World scored another victory tor the peoples ‘have held thelr receipts since May 1, 1906 Have you) held yours? POLICEMEN SAVE including interest. The Consolidated Gas Company, 1.360.785 | Trust Lawyers Staggered by the Court Decisiom: 1,335,582 | 1,380,745 700,000 | Which Crowns With Victory the Evening World’s Long Fight for the Public. { | Sifted down, this is the effect of the decision: The 80-Cent Gas bill has been constitutional ever since gi ithe moment of its passage, and is constitutional to-day. } The legal price of gas in this city since May 1, 1906, { tuoK he at Flushing Novelist Thornton Jenkins Hains, the and ex-suiling m stand as a wit this aflernoon, in his tral tor ues ot his yers migh ny a a knowledge of the citing of William E. sin his awn with the purpose, if the promises relied upon, of den { Annis by I Hist Capt, Peter Hains or the regular army, at they has been 80 cents per thousand feet, and no gas company i Baysie Yacht Hh roe ished Ws | SCHOOL CHILDREN AS CCURT RULES has any right to charge more. testimony, when John F. Mehr 1 toi detense, | | The Consolidated and other gas companies must refund i motioned to his client, sitting at his side, t | ON BRCADWAY big murder trial go to the witness chair, The biewest moment of the had come—a bigger moment even than when the dead man's widow the 20 per cent. excess they have been collecting, amounting ( GENT GAS. {now to $10,000,000, and must render their bills hereafter at : | the 80-cent rate. told her story, for when all is said an 4d done it is about Thornton Hains’s | But the C lidated G ‘ athe veh ) dominant personality that the tage has focused since the very first. One Dragged From Under | Consolidated Mae More rian | ut the Consolidated Gas Company is grante the right i} Hains, smail, stocky, eagle-nosed, an | Horss'eHoofeandSeveral | 23 (Pointe: aad Other to go into court and prove—if such proof be possible of pro- ] NIE? Ob eveyiahoved. nlsp yey DiOnS Feouen we - i 'F ‘ . duction—that 80 cents per thousand feet is a confiscatory Y the 1ows of came around pehind the jury box, stepping brisk! He took the oath with complete self- reporters Pushed to Sidewalk. Stocks Follow. rate for gas in this city. In other words, the burden of proof is shifted from the people to tha} vj MOTHER UF A : # possession, his upliftel hand perfectly Persons on Broadway in the nelghbor-| ‘The #tock market had an emotional}. Tha Conenaltdate. Shea ce nat tent an then alloned to Lena (| Vingoalatiiraetyrcasond attest latirioent (oe |Nelcihenie titer ecrapantiicee nae hla gas monopoly, The Consolidated and its associates must prove by actual $ chalr with a movement us ny, ale rece) S$ ‘ @ ous ate on i J ophetuer tine day saw the Hives of a score of children |for excitement the wridost times that |'Sts that 80 cents per thousand feet is not a rate to allow a fair returre! ileiBravade (Acoentuated) } saved by the quickness and nerve of |tiave been seen on the New York Ex. | Upon the investment. Perera rer ete atiiget ry ip two Polleemyn, _Jehange ‘The ‘decision ta the si-Cent| News of the decislon of the United ¢ the consolidation, Inasmuch’ H ly ab f his man's As John Harpen, who lives at No. 179 fase struck into the midst of trad: |Stttes Supreme Court jolted the Stork | bill of complaint was dis- : Bev erenticely abeant) Lome tits iste Brunswick atreet, Brooklyn, was round- ing with the violence earth Exchange Ike an earthquake shortly | ed without prejudice, it might manner seemed accentuated, He looked i} ] ng a the violence of an earth shock, ! ater noon. ‘The Consolidated Gas | {ng his hansom from Forty-second street |rurning the course of musiness topsy. |! hd | mean that the company would bee / 1 as if he actually might have anticipa- a i} i i} into Broadway a trolley car cut off his lite ; el P8Y° stock slid down 2% 1-2 points and other! gina now sult to determine its earns 4 4 tons of a pleasant nature regarding the ; ‘ progress and headed him in toward the | rash te minlead Cag erie Mentos | mtocks declined from 3 to 4 points IN) ing capacity.” i ordeal that lay before him, for every air © Detri fo peu Bie curb, Alone came an auitomobile at a| ne jy fone ine tee aympathy. The original valuation of the gas fra eye in tHe crowded room was upon him} Declares He) Is Detained in Sard Peer cane an automobile at al Ag i¢ disposing of red tiot bricks that Lavivere/ Are! euszied) fee oealualnstiani tae te ms i le F , ' p Byres scorched their hands, the brokers toss- es wis held by the gas com every r ening for if e Ie TEyve » ) ay a2, 2 bs r 1 e r ers fc e s c Anil every ear listening for what te Matteawan Asylum With- {Even His Red Hot Poker and Alleged Popping Up From | nd tege'and tried to beat the radiator eq down bundies of Consolidated Gag] THe learned lawyers for the gas mo: ie sziunuM, Lie amount at which they might have to say, and that is what - ; Py wee . off with his forefeet. Harper pulled the | stock in huge. blocks, harnme the |[Honoly foregut in thelr upholstered | werw taxed by the State, Judge Hougit] Thornton Hains loves with a greedy out Warrant | Lower Regions Are Forgiven When It Is Learned deaat's head around to tha side and the price down ah one and. tenure, Will Mtzeot offices and ran abOUL I) out this down to $l, which sungl love, If one may judge from his con- ¢ ti serallnraneriv. Numed Ganitor automobile butted the cab and slung it vegions until. the yrite dade stacked (YaTious clrcles uttering loud cries, ot | wa considered to have been ralsed t x duct since the case opened before ee eS db roperly Sdaned samtor ten feet, emis toe HAG SACK nich the following from Charles T. |sizt Uvithe Raturalincreagalinith Supreme Court Judge Gr at Flush New proceedings were brought. to-day — = an Toman the horse, leaned for- | inye unloading of Gas continued for | Mathewson Isa ample Jyalue of the franchises since the come Ing’s old town hall. ‘To the clerk he) wii, view of securing the discharge | y ra , ’ arden thie shatte, looked for an open |neif an hour, with al stocke more oF It ts impossible for us to arrive | solidation realdancnid W 4 Justices t o t ed cheeks of the prisuier as he | ing and bue! ‘ o ‘oad iy r { nelusion as to w gAvo hia realdench as au of Harry K. Thaw, shaver of Stanford Gene eal ed the centre of Brondway joae aftecied by the i until an} at any definite conclusion as to what | Cannot Capitalize Franchise. How old are you?” began Melntyre. Waye trom the Matteawan State Asye (a DEV ies afc with long, swinging bourda. other sullen announcement of the} the Supreme Court has realiy held |. © BEES Saas : , “L was forty-three on the 12th of Novem y for Criminal tn when applica: | spe sis 1 ‘ Mu Uwviig set! sion) by ie | Harper sawed on the bit te no purpose, United States Supr ‘ourt’a dectsion| until we get the full text of the dee | ie CUE TSA hie He { A) answered ea convers % fs . Ati » Another mann ed Zood ad ‘ Hon 3 | portan yade on a ease » Ber ioecAeU eh eaainy Bit eds ¢ColVerax Was made to Supreme Court Justice | 1),, a cme iho, another than named Zoodie| Publte School No. i, which 19 eaat of refusing the application ot the Govern.| cision, As T understand tt from the DECUeN Aeon ana ase Involving tlonal tone, clipping his words of raster) aytiur s. Tompkins, presiding over She d Nees. MUST a io all Broaalias on Morty-fitth st had ment to resubmit tie Standard Oil case| very brlof reporis of the decision as | POON ONS Ce closely a ie end . soca! ‘erm at White Plains, for a writ of |) bu Seen . rn aed are ne une ita throng of children Out involving the $20,000,000 fine came as n| given by the rand telegraph | Company uiat a public service corpora~ h ; vit eee ears ij Cia her's s corpus for the production of \!s janit ue; 608 ROUReB tay mW AGUAHM Hey ran away Grell Nee Ne _ngon recess, Double lines of geadying wedge to prevent further col-| dispatohes, it appears that the Court | iio. can 1 franchises which ome In iNlnelons a went on win court, Justice Tompkins grant-!452 West One Hundred and sixty-f fe TOhu quite taninens goody} ia elle Pee ee tane sctaas 108 Riredl. Higces } ids sustained our right to earn 6 | eoge ft nothing an witilize the ind Answering more questions, “1 was init ot the writ, which makes it Imperative | Te Gh) a food.mans’ | Policeman Huftard, on hie cross-walk.| "'the reckless nelling of Gas ceased! per cent. on our lavestment, and has | creased valuntto e Hed in 1896 to a girl named Mary Jones, | oy the part of Supt. Lamb, of Mattea- | *t" . te ae eae Hee Zeleh; |eaned Stet lepeesd (nls eimai Ged/ with) rimadiateiy, atiay the TANHOUNGAMENE| lao suatalitad the MRedivaiationl et ldus tithe of Brooklyn. She died three years ago roduce ‘Thaw tn court chat | 1 of No. 4 West One Ined to believe that you}« rush swept thirty children back as i there| the tranobl about $7,000,000, ; i leaving one clild, also named Mary, 1 Nyack on next &: Mn Uieiyethivl wtre F somewhat provoked, aud {t would} though they had been feathers before of the Standard ON deulslon and there | the franchises at about $7,000, jas an addi 4 sl earning assete have been an inspector on Government yn for the writ Ie ged byt V that a man o€ your name was en-[a broom. Policeman Lavery did the Wa @ febound of 7 points, Gas tose) which was the amount the company | ty | Pe DAN ORE DF x contracts and 1 have also followed tie | pittuare Sie was represented In court (heared ae complainant, rere a flaming poker or some-| same, But one little girl, iorence fMtfully after the iar teadied, but | paid for tie various franchises at the } wea, J went to sea in i fie age) by Lawyer Charles Morschauser, of 1 owas p Miso man De x oof that sort in his own defense. | Latham, of No. 30) West Fitty-seconsy Httle Was sold above i i ; twelve, and se four s learning | Poughkeepsie. Mrs, Thaw sets forth the house,” declared Zimbo, “when be comes Wheperor you are discharged. ‘Taxe| street, didn't understand. She. sli AS ARK UNECR LOR IG ENEWS eO II ' i ! , f f fe slipped : ‘ &@ scaman’s routine duty, At different | Proc pedi bis enti aeet ca ac th bie canine: Joutof the basement with a red-ho ever, that the bast p under Buflard's arm. He whirled about ling the HE EOL LLL Ee SAVANNAH RESULTS. en the whole m « sifted dowrt times sitice L have been to sea, as mate SHAE Hee BORER HOU heeitee 1 ime and # “ voker fa down in the basement {and jumped alt ie the Gas decision Consolidated Gas | en ifted ¢ hit her gon has not heen com- ped after her, catching ler! opened at 1641-4 and was selling at through the courts it will be and master, and I have a ma s not detained In the asylum my bor \ ontrol the dastiites of your [dress Just as she fell under the horse's {ge t-t when the crash came FIRST RACK—Selling; t hat New Yor eiuy Sows Neense, I am knowr along the Ameri- mandate Isnued by the as Pr t \lieels. One wheel of the cab brushed) During tlie violent decli upward, , : oa aA n coast und In foreign countries as of the United States, | nimseit?” asked / With a little shriek of joy D ag ‘ was general sytnpathe Oana oer Capt Fenuind lathe SAO HARE ie fa final judgment of the himself ‘ from t irtroom a ‘ iho a eerie ay raat es her Paci ssid on 4 ‘ es Paotele { t. Jenk 3 a ‘She wate aS ay from the courtroom and into the! bac! arly to the sidewalk. She was pacific ond ce the } is T. Jenkins tains, Since 1M T hav Pat all the acts and orders are null sof s ltevil and sundry smali| only slightly brutsed and scared and, clined 21+ and t to 2, third 4 Ma Jan earned my living writing T have|and void because they commit the said vn the pale Devils who awaited him in the corridor, did not need the attendance of a( 4: Copper. mn FI Prince of Pt ture, The written a dozen books and have also) Taw to an Institution for the criminal Sat a UN aca ferred, 2 " in combinas Laat lene Insane, whereas Thaw ts not @ critlnal, | surgeon, | Reading, 34-4, and St. Paul SECOND 41 pecsengue written for every magazinepublished In) haying heen acquitted by a fury.” | The runaway went on up Broadway came the convulsive rebound. The re and up ra Sha aln the Englisi language. Some of my) She further sets forth that he te now | 6 § ih until at Forty-seventh streot it smashed covery was alded by the scramble of (04 praesdi Ls i ane and 0 a ears to cover thefr short contract ret wee ith imiariea have \beenitranslated|intovother}aAre ane Ana ne ee iD LLY Hi Into a milk wagon which keeled over {1 beats to cover thelr sit ery at Poy 1, Won, Spring sate f . i whe Janguage! , | Th the new application of Mrs. Thaw with a mighty crash of bottles and points and In Reading % MO ROR Ce Gy Nae i AURA RUE FL Have you seen mue! 1 of your brother she arks that the sanity of her son be lrattling of cans, The cab went down sans Se wood UB (A, Lael 8 to, 1a to 2 deposits nteres! Peter in your life?” "No; on account| passed upon by a jury in a heap. Harper was thrown to the ROOSEVELT APPOINTS hompson alao ran $9,000,000 to Be Paid Back. of our different modes of life we have _—_——— ground violently. He was carried into THIRD RACE for! More than $40) of the money of the seen very little of him, but after he' WOULD STOP PUBLICATION | a nearby drug store unconscious, TWO NEW MINISTERS, three-year-olds: ene t eof Man 8 thus tied up. ig went to Fort Hamilton 1 saw a good 2 See ed a —— | *)—Anna Smith. 199 4 Yt | phe dlistett aunnitothe deal of him, bevaise hy house wes tn OF RACETRACK BETTINGODDS I$ EPILEPSY CONQUERED? | wasssitis tas athe rent iball Sn ae ier ve pid blocks from the fort” < + a ‘i y NA : oH Bo ee 5 he pal tond: Oro Sudidut te kik Further ey ‘You loved your brother Peters” “1 Delaney Must Stand Trial for Grand Larceny, Burglary, Im- a dent sent to the Senate today the nds Oro Sudiuth, Fine Deeb e eos § : ALBANY, Jan. 4—Newspapers: will be ' ; ¢ Phyastotan Has 3 lowing, nominations Envoys Extraor: | {'q a male atabilaniy loved him very much,” sald the wit-| eonipited fron : personating an Otticer ond Carrying Dangerous ara te eee ee meee ee aleniootentiery, Iaeamata, el jewel status of (lise ave failed tab heap before the DistricteAttorney ceuia |Pronibited from publishing hetting odds e ying g a Sr lhiGtet i ! entia i Re robutney Attorney could | oy horse raves If a bill to be introduced Weapons—Ac Ow Gourcel ures edit, | preserva th jalisert i re of by Senator Agnew, of New York, be- eapons—Acts as Own Counsel, PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 4—Advices |’ Inthe ase F the complete eq Dror the Paivninee ie cean he salle’ comes a law, Senator Agnew, who was Ee eee hb Be ee from every direction fully confirm pre- jelston Judxe Alto! Parker, Asstate it for the Philippines in Getober, 19 BNeaGe) (HAL ABORRGES) COPE TTA catiroees VOisua deporte thal ue remar CARA Greate fant Corporasivn Counsel t and Eds ¥es, 1 saw him off.” , ‘track gainbling laws passed at the last | Willian) Delaney, the 1 Felanew fs Joby T Rond, a Martford |ment tor epilepsy being administered Reals f Hy [raed ANE 2 uly argued hen’next did you see Him?” “On | vexsion of the Legisiature, sald to-day [who Was arrested af t sawore that the by the chief consulting physician of , Naina a Pecans fe eG TTA the last Sunday in May of 1908. Twas! that he intended to Introduce such a bill] weeks’ expectence a fiver took him toa hotel /the Dr. Kilne Institute is achteving f wet en TH RACK=Fo: ators 2 ; culee asleep in my room when I heard a.jast year, but in view of the fight tore Mas Now Y eit and thea robbed him fwondertul results, Utd” and) aiutborn Ar ALAIN Naor into any 5 of it this crash at my door, As I leaped from | against antl-race track gambling bills 1 n wat no Cun Tinks and ation: | alin to) have been at gale apy tie whe ty ale bed & man burst In Tf was my (decided to postpone the matter until |: f 4 was found on Ne. | BTU A Ch I was & gr Gir and brother Peter. Ilo was waving his | this year ft , 1 aS Was also De. 3 suffering from epilepsy. the peop hed sbands above his head Hke| He “lelleves the prolithition of the ut id wevite at once to Branch 3 Fine Sew Tarkish Baths ; k 1 hairniadt et a _ dramatic Mustration— publication of betting odds would | closely questic k i " gee are grand larceny TRE ISNA, Bus for a maupnly. ofetne |S wires Bul ding t Queen, Een. A large @ 4 credit for this vieq strengthen the laws against Cossenes Hin and jnsioted ta he was intext: jpurclary, Fopersonating an oMcer, and | remedy, whici 8 being distributed fil tall d and Turkish neck and Injurigg.| tory over A Kreody corporation pers nom ‘Second Pose) betting, “4 coted, The prinoipal witness agains | carrgius dsngerous Weapend ‘ qrat ova ‘oara bags tie moot laaokteae dese es iy f \ ’ ¥y v \ '