The evening world. Newspaper, February 3, 1909, Page 1

G $ FIRE IN STATE CAPITOL AT ALBANY GIRL’S KIDNAPPER ml ARRESTED _—_— Snow to-night; Thursday cloudy and warmer. RESULTS £0 PRICE ONE. CENT. FINAL) ITI} ~ FLAMES IN THE CAPITOL AT ALBANY _~ e Smoke From Fire in Cellar! Fills Big Building and Alarms Officials. BUT SENATE GOES ON. Doors of Chamber Closed and Debate Proceeds as Fire- men Fight Blaze. , Feb, 3.—Fire in the base: Capitol this af ALBAN ment of filed the o and caused « the det Ke rridors wit! e excitement in nstderab! the various department 2 dam- age was slight The fire was discovered anv rubbish on “bri doors to ing and ) The evdings were n interrupted, rf ridors side we: ed with smoke. The fire department soon had the flames under contro! BUILDERS Flt AGAINST LIMIT ON SKYSCRAPERS Can Be Erected Without Cut- ting Off Light 2rd Air, They Say at Hearing. The men who dulld New York's sky-| epresented at the bic hearing on acrapers were largely City Hall to-day at a put the proposed building code pr Ymiting the height of all future bu ings in New York to 350 feet. Co troller Metz, President Ar Chief Engineer W prised the select committee ap the Board of Estiniate to liste gument, The Board haa the pow appoint or disapprove « r placing any restrict! of buildings. Alder that the Building Code Comunission nad tentatively approved the restriction, Calvin Tompkins, representing the Board of Trade and Transportation, in- formed the committee that his board yas opposed to the limitation of height clause, The real question Js light and air, he added, and these can be had when high buildings are not seat golldly against each other, It is an easy matter to regulate the cast of Hight dnd air in the streets, he said. An angle of light of seventy degrees ean easily bk provided in the pu highways. Buildings can be erected in terrace fashion without sacrificing ligh TWO RECEIVERS. ARE NAMED | FOR FRAZIN & OPPENHEIM |Creditors File mane iftstalio in Bag) Against Big Shoe Firms With Seven Stores Here and Others in Chicago and Philaddelphia ‘ferential transfers of leases of its aw Pay son Mer stores to other credi and Joseph H. Wi ge Hol bond of $150,000, ors iert were s tor rates seven) appointed by Ju receiy n Chicago| the firm They ladelphia, by the Medler| are | & Holmes Company and two others with | dave The assets of the alleged bankrupt! rth half a n foin continue the vs for twenty claims aggregating $33,722 The petit the shoe! concern were stated to be wo ng creditors say | firm is insolvent and allege that it mad@ million dollars SENATE DOWNS COOK, 31 TO 17; PARTY LINES ARE BROKEN | | ———_-- — +4 ——- Refuses to Confirm His Appointment by Gov, Hughes as Democratic Member of New Highway Commi Grady Wins His Fight With Aid of 17 Republicans. ion— BANY, Feb. 0.The nomination of) The absentees were Rrackett, PhmiECOct Ann then Dance cratic | san; C.D, Suillvan and Schulz, Demo- ats rs of the new State Highway |" isanalore Cobb, Travis and Newcomb ommission was rejected by the Senate 1 to 17, The Dem- political status of Cook's nomina- Allds and Raines "T believe that in of Mr. nators tion lay la Mr. Cook and succeeded in mustering | opposing the confirmation of Mr. Cook | ' Republican votes to dete Tam performing my duty,’ said Senator jcontirmation of the nominee. taines in conclusion, “and in doing so I | The following Renublicans voted withj adopt the sentiment of Whitt en {the Democrats against Mr, Cook's con-!he says: ‘simple duty las no place for nation: Allds, Alt, Burlingame, Em-|¢ ’ son, Gledhill, Grattan, Hamilton, | | Hewitt, Hold kK Mackenzie,| (The details of the debate on the | Meade, Platt, Raines, Schlosser, White) confirmation of Cook will he found and Witter. lon page 130 YOUNG M’ATEE, ACCUSED BY REARDON, SET FREE BY JURY. Crowd of Pennsylvania aneanie Who Stood by Him Throughout Trial Cheer as Man Arrested by Jer- | ome’s Former Detective Is Acquitted. | | The trial of Thomas MecAtes, which erying out her {ov on hls breast. With har attracted more attention than any | the far ou one HMde and Father + Hogan, of Mahoney Plan ott |that has had been heard in General Ses. | 10# fahoney Pla e other ; and a noisy little proce hyTihy | sions In months, ended this afternoon at) qiong be thal idtalaelnonee Seen [4.85 In a verdict of acquittal. The Jury | out of ilding and started foi | was out forty-five minutes. 1 sylvanta Anticipating that there would be al MeAtee was accused by dem: ation if the jurors freed the} ”, rly star sleuth of accused youth, Judge Rosalsky took the} District-Attorney erome’s staff of ‘precaution to clear the court before the| county detectives. According to Re [result was announced, Ontside in the|don’s story he found McAtee in the a crowd of seven! cort ive persons, | hal way ef the house where letect= mainiy from MeAteo's home te ahonoy Plane, Va., were hen he walked ont/a free ms Ato rs made the Criminal Courts Build- | « ing ring. Men and women crowded | pated, around the young man, struggling with} McAteo de one another for the chance to pat hie! of Readon’s story. The parish priest of back and shake his hand Mahoney Plane and dozens of the best McAtee's sweetheart, Miss Catharine |citizens of the town came on to New McLaughlin, broke through the ring | York at their own expense to testify to and threw her arms around his neck, his good character, econd int uder partici Practically every detail | “HAMMERSTEIN SHOVED HIM, SAYS REPORTER WHO SLAPPED NEW YORK, g ~ WEDNESDAY, ‘FEBRUARY 3, 1509. 12-Year-Old Brooklyn Girl “ah | SHOOTS f ie Neighbor Who Kidnapped Her. IN A HOTEL een Double Tragedy in the Melrose Near Entrance to Pros- | | pect Park. | ae ene q SUICIDE ISH. G. POPE. | Bessie Schweder, Saloon-Keep- ’s Companion, Mortally Hurt by Bullet. ©. Pope, who kept a saloon at a Kalb and Reid avenues, in Brook- lyn, and lived at No. 23 De Kalb avenue, shot and mortally wounded Bessie ‘oeder in the Melrose Hotel this aft- ernoon and then killed himself. The girl | gave her address at Kings County Hos- {pital as No, 1A Madison street, Brook- who was well known In his sec- |tion of Brooklyn, appeared at the Mel- roge Hotel, outside the Willinck entrance to Prospect Park, late yesterday evening with the Schroeder girl. He registered as “H. C, Pope and wife,” and the couple were assigned to a room on the }econd floor, Wounded Girl Fell on Stairs, | Two meals were served to that room to-day by walters, No one in the hotel | heard the pair quarrelling. A shot in the room startled the hotel staff at 4 o'clock this afternoon, Then the woman ran out, attired in a night- gown, gained the head of the stairway and tumbled headlong to the ground ——— floor, As she was falling, another shot | |was heard affd those who entered the Hostler and Ten Car Horse: v found Pope dead, with a bullet | Wound through bis heart and a pistol! Overcome by Morpheus, Made Policeman Blink. ope. 1 bis right hand | The bullet which struck the girl pene- trated her breast. She was incoherent when questioned, and no satisfactory statement could be obtained from her as to the cause of the tragedy. | Pope was about thirty-five years old. {His father lives at Belford, N. J. He | was popular in the nelghborhood of his | joon and was standard bearer of a|and when an {cy breeze crawled up club known as the Harry C, 32S. JAN I | ER Pope As-lunder his coat and disturbed him, he | sociation, did something else to the bottle he} ' The club gave a ball Sunday ntght at | a“ Ealiiamcnickarbnokermrain | took from hie pocket. It was a per- { iC Mertle avenues, Brooklyn. Pope drank| fectly good bottle still, but there was Along in the early hours to-day Patrick McCafferty nodded at his post of hostler in the belt line relay station, at Mest avenue and Forty-ninth street, a great deal at the ball, He left at 2/not much of anything left in it. So Bt o'clock Monday morning with @ (alllpaiciek sighed and closed his eyes| \ a } ng woman, who, from description, ts ; joelleved to have been Bessie Schroeder, | fF another doze. PLAY “Hy, Pat, me bd'ye,” a voice, iing further was seen of bim by His bartenders were search- ‘or him this afternoon and had| decided ¢ ity the police of his} suddenly shouted | “come take the harses to the! stable—and git @ hustle on yez" Pat sleepily went outside and, bunch- | Jl " ' Joseph Junier, of No |been drinking there for a found him his little victin: was 8 PRICE ONE CENT, D KNAPP Jr BROOKLYN GIRL OR CAPITAL CRIME ++ ‘Death the Penalty in Maryland for Offense Charged by Twelve-Year- Old Katherine Loerch Against Janier. \GOVERNOR WILL RESIST ATTEMPT TO: EXTRADITE. Child, Found Crying in Street of Southern City, Tells Shocking Story of Abduction by Rich Neighbor an: Friend of the Family, Who Is Arrested. 274 Classon avenue, Brooklya, (ae kidnapper i Kath ihe daughter of his friend and neigh- hor, was arrested in Baltimore to-day and may suffer the death penalty tor his with him, According to World over the long distance tele- me, this afternoon, Janier will not be surrendered to the Brooklyn but will be for a grade of felon- ious assault, the penally or 4 er the laws of Maryland, is of twelye-yearec e Loer ireatment of the child he lured away by the Evening tion received Infor indicted in Baltimore to-morrc police, | hich crime, und feath, lhe kidnapper, who is married and the father of three children, | was arrested in a siloon cn North Calvert street, Baltimore. He had When Detectives Pohler and Kahler hivering in the the pavement n hour, rain \ jin front of the saloon, The man and the girl were taken to r fe t I Pottes tte udquarters, ‘The man was in Mal At 4n incoherent condition from whiskey a - id and The little girl was hysterie t when she became calm she l made a statement the character of Nit H \ © affected District-Attorney tL BI Swann that he telephoned to Gov, C ré, of Maryland, and urged 1 igh no extradition papers. An io RUL the Governor ty of a more hein- ppearance when news rr is suivide, ing together tl ten horses with droop- ing heads int RAILROAD MAN WN ARRESTED ‘paxed to take p Wind-swept street, pre- m to the car barns ot Disciplined V Gin emor for |Fifty-fourth street and Tenth IN CLIFF MURDER CASE. | ter their strenuous toil of the day. Indecorous Language on “It's @ cheap bunch of ekates ye uae Special to Tre Evening World.) ar-re," he muttered as he scrambled the Floor. | POUGHKEEPSIE, Feb. %.—Napoleon | aboard the least scrawny one he could Monat, a former brakeman of the New| find. "Giddap!" : York and New Haven Railroad, was ar Patrick Wet to Sleep. j_teedar Wormeer| Jr. sas to-day aula | rested to-day at Holyoke, Mass,, at the| The five teams, piloted by pat, /Pended from: the Stock Exchange for |request of Chief of Police McCabe at|CTunched along to Fifty-fourth street |sixty days “for uslng indecorous lan- The complain lthis city. It 1s believed that he knows gainet much of the muysder of John Clift here on Ja and the murderous attack at the same time on Mrs. Cliff When Mrs. Clift became conscious a few days after the murder she pointed | and turned. Between Firat ‘and Sec- guage, ond avenues something happened. It is Ww, rt wi not certain whether the ine, Bal Wal] ee eee seer Be riding went to sicep and lay down with © ‘he Governing Committes « him or whether Pat went to sleep first change and fell off. Mi, W At uny rate, some time later Police- w 0 !s a member | the ex- and floor m out her own. brothe one who % 7 i : u ‘and air. Limitation of helght, he added, | Bul Her owen bret oe ymich [Man Mocauley, of the Hast Fitty-itrst | Lauer & Co | would defeat building evolution now ATA ROE FARA a A REIT ae GPE eet ee etc core one mand: (nety laonieethinge | going on in this city A rent she and her husban: a 1) What he took to be a caravan at reat In. prest | ‘ ‘ Pork'| rs wat out her frusband’s brains and then | the desert. ; President Babb of New York he famous assault case of Oscar | Ikewise shov im. The slap o ed ‘attacked her a left her for dead. | “One, two, t'ree, four’— } t - Board of Fire Underwriters, declared! vat \ Crarocenet inthe * Be : : . two, t'ree, — he counted hat the maximum of height r ATUy [cee eee seria SrORUOe noueacrlea recent i volun- |The brother steadfastly insisted that|ten sleeping horses in the middle of the |G t he ax) im of heigh eported by a o ary ; ; the Code Commission li too greats ag, {clash and clinch between the impresario |MWils. Tetallator het injuries have made her de-|street, He snooped around until he announcement Bl PestrstlGRiGe KCN DGIIIEgs The New ¥ a Your feelings at the | mented, and that he knew nothing of | Pat c conteniediy up against Saya ‘ll advocated restriction of hotel bulldings| ind two reporters for The New York timo? Staiay darn mented, and tt at he knew ng of | found at urled en P against | wa: 1 rostrum a | to 20 fect and office buildings should be | press 4 {te third hearing, In the Es) “J ie the murder, The police were so {m-|one of the horses. o'clock this morning by President | limited to %0 feet aie OF ISOS: ined ice ities rentaeLon le. ges | oeyec CUiiok, Op iC: Alialy ae ir pressed with the straightforwardness| Finally he succeeded in getting Pat to | Thonia | : awed sex Market Court, to-day, Magistrate Into t everal phsyeho f his story that:they kept on with thelr {arise and start his caravan on its inter-| A for ater Ernest Flagg, architect of the Singer ments,” replied Hall, whe | rupted hike 3 a ; Finn presiding. | Reeryett) H bd b. search for the murderer despite the | rupted hike, George ex building, and Charles R. Lamb Delmas cuahed and’ Me Ham : forse ‘ pressed their opposition to the hej Mr, Hammersteir # there with an) ecowled, woman's statement Then the Horses Slept. i Pe * limit suggestion. Mr, Flagg sald that) array of legal talent headed by Delphin| Willlam J, Heney was arraigned with | ors “ etdal ed ati ‘ rr | eboly come out and hold the | ine rule d cha publie Interests demanded hefght where| stichael Delmas and John F. Metntyre, | Hall and Dovie, He is a. Wh | cretght conductor walked into Chlet|gryes," cued the-policeman when the | teh it nd lias Hight and air would not be sacrificed. | witie Charles M. Beattie appeared as ‘Stfuctive particeps crimin Lic o| cer eh labs Goer tid MALT station was reached lee t Fy eevee eget) DIET ele) of! counsel for Frederick M. Hall and {S@ult: tn that he remarked when Hatl|“ecean! phat tae Pouce Mele Deeuly |) sNiver 4 the hares," said . Gortiailtes ight and alr, are to be desired, he said. | James J. Doyle, the accused reporters, |tanded on the Hamerstein nose: “Go it, | “te ON the Sail Of the murderer S8) they can't get away. Les “ein alone, : article -__ oo The proceedings were confined to the{ Kili sip it to him,” or more foretul fy © th seutvay might ast (bla They need the rist. he: exchange 5 . 1 ; vernacular to the same effect hought MB Ds pect him.) At thi: cture one of the ten flopped guilt t ONTREAL IS AGAIN examination of Hall and Doyle. ‘i Witaninat pas y {1 4 . vg He told McCabe that he had come in] gown s street, and soon the i Hall was first. question. He denied! It !8 not expected that this afternoon's ein down in the street, and so others an act ding to Conrow the murder WaS|the station steps all urses were nat ihe ; MONTREAL, Feb. 3.—Numerous re- ports have been received of an addi- tlongl earth tremor being felt In Mon- treat at $ o'clock this morning. The shock was very slight and lasted an incaloulable period, according to those ‘se it. It was the third 1s week. | Mr. Hammerstein on the nose, He had} ‘rable margin ene o . . »y a number of railroad m serenel. dreamin, of another s ] | permitted his open hand to slap the im-|_Hleney. accused of having throv sul: | amed then! to Chief McCabe att werk Rebly done, . net noe Oa? Aalhe presario. He did not notice where the|Phuretted hydrogen on Mr. Hammer-| Gnie¢ had labored with him for Lieut. Dan Daly heard the story and jay.” siach Vee slap landed, nor had he observed that] stein, sald, tat he did nothing of the | jour | thought Pat shouldbe held on’acchatwe| whe. of the firm of W. & | he had drawn the blood of Mr. Ham-! jf was discharged. at equest of | sage was sept to Holyoke a: Jof intoxication, so Pat sald good-by | L: il in no way be at merstein until some while latet wren he| Lawyer Beattie, Lawyer McIntyre not | for the arrest of Monat, and the to his five teams and accepted the by the temporary suspe Mr. naliced scar blowing his nose. ea te Finn said he would give hie | 24 the District-Attornay went to Hgl-| proffered He said he lived at|Wormser, as the concern has two other ty Hall oaid thag before the slay oc-| verdict In the other cases on Friday at Yoke this afternoon, Meantime Conrow! No, 853 Eb:h efue and is twenty-! toor members—W. FH. Lauer and S. M, curred Hammerstein had pushed him, 40 olclocks. is detained here twe years eld. Goldsmith. ? 2 ‘ pping, committed should suffor the laws of Insists on Ceath Penalty. cops Are Dubs, ys Rosen- | at Col. Swann sald t of the most atrocious thal, Whose Pull i orked ‘i to his knowledge, Gov- e Crothers gave Col, Swann his Well Until To-Day i that he would not sign extradition ie papers and urged the District-Attorney to tuke the case up immediately with Henman Rosenthal, who for years has the Balthmore Grand Jury. kept a gambling shop at No. {9 Seventh) The child's statement will be handed te. | to the Grand Jury to-morrow, and it 1s treaty called) 08 Distr! expected that an indictment will be rome to-day ay De ied forthwith, future Meany Detectives Conway and the tid Reif, of the Brooklyn Central Qitice, ava speMny to Baltimore with af ware Se Atl Sieineas ane | FADER IIRE : with kidnapping. the extreme penalty for which In this » one else along the eas '. State Is twenty-five years In Sing Sing, with hard labo: ip R tant k ine Loerch ts the daughter of I ee 4 “| Ernest and Freda h, of No. 343 H ; avenue, Hrovklyn, Her father, , MI maid , 1 paralytic, prayed for strengt! : to reach Janiev and tear him to pieces j ay a when he heard of tho man’s arrest and The Dow yy Ep i vlat he had done, Stole Child With Auto. ry kidnapped the child on Monday , first taking her out on an automo. and then taking her aboard a They arrived in night and went 409 North Cal, ‘as the scene of ich is charged i Ju tr » on | Balti to Wer Janter took the e known as the at No, 611 North vert ai remarked, a treet, Kept by Mrs. Ellzabeth Duke, night there, occupying s both places the man Paul and Florence News ultimore detectives ar- lenled both names of ny know! E t a k athe ge of the girth he truth war tise barber shop oven ay 404 | earned troth the child wben she wae Fine Sew Turkish Baths ewhart, also firstc ass dow in j t | } some = ceaiaieatieeeced