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

FISCHER-HAN SIX MEN KILLED ON ven TRAL ROA WEATHER-Clondy to-night and Friday milder, SK Ki ONNEWYORK NTRAL BY GIANT MOTOR ——.—_ Drawing Train at 20 Miles an : Hour It Crashes Into | Laborers. ~ | SEVENTH VICTIM DYING, | Foreman Arrested and Railroad Officials Ordered to Pro- duce the Engineer.” | The lives of atx section ( on the New York Central tracks, along- fde the Harlem River, at University] | Heights, were snuffed oat in a nt this afternoon by one of the great elec- tric locomotives of the system. other Man was fatally injured and still four others were painfully hurt. The dead men P. Pozaella, E, Raflopiano, N. Barboro and F. Porella, all of No, 48 North Main street, Yon- kere; V. Cutolo, of No, 35 Yonkers aye- nue, Yonkers, and N, Pierro, of Albany avenue, Kingsbridza R. Mucecho, of Al- beny avenue, Kingsbridge, was taken to Fordham Hospita! tn a dying condiifon. The other four men sustained only bruises. Of the six killed outright four were caught and carried under the wheels of the heavy locometive and ground to pleces. The tragedy was caused by the noise- @ approach of the great motor 4 @ine, which was attached to a lol String of empty flat cars, combined with the lack of any protection of a Mature to warn the tollers on the track of the approach of a train. The fore- man of the gank, Joseph Wyanarle, of Yonkers, was arrested on the spot and|* ‘@ notice was sent to the New York ‘Central officials ordering them to pro- @uce the engineer, Twenty Men at Work. A gang of twenty men under Wyan- arle's direction was at work on the third rail at a polnt about 200 yards north of the University Heights Station. To the north of the spot where the men were working there {s a sharp curve. A ma-| Jority of the gang was at work on the south-bound track. Bound in for the Grand Central Sta- ton wes a train of flat cars which had | Passed up an hour before loaded with \ \dirt and stone from the Grand Central ,@xeavation. The train was running jabout twenty miles an hour, witnes estimate. No whistle signal was sound ¢d, it ls claimed, and the bell was not ringing. : Tt was 1.15 o'clock. The supposition Is that when the train passed north an hour before the section hands were at ithelr lunch and the engineer fatled to note that they were working near the jatation, Consequently, In ignorance of | the tolling crowd around the curve, he ‘did not slacken speed. The six unfortunates who were killed wero working at the northerly ‘end of the job. They had no chance to get out of the way and were struck} with their tools in their hands. The! jothers struck were thrown aside, The train ran fifty yards before it stopped. Hurry Call for Help. Gergt. Sutty and Sergt. Medboy, of the Highbridge station, happened to be close ‘to the spot and were on the scene almost {as soon as the accident happened. They | sent hurried ambulance calls and sum- moned twenty men from the Highbridge and Kingsbridge stations. Coroner Me- Donald, of the Bronx, was notified and hurried to the scene with his stenogra- pher and chief clerk When he arrived, the bodies of the dead were re: pited up on port Heights @ snowbank alongsiie the track the distance trom station. Wyanarle, the very little abot University | 1 N flagin. | ficial of he Fond ordered the constrnc tion train whieh ha ' | men to proceed into cic Station. Coroner Melo to Capt. Langtry, of the first street and gend a man around to th tral and get the engineer. man en Bofore th ) Kast batt ked him ¢ jrand © PRIGE ONE CENT. MOB STORMS POLICE STATION: | broke into the station and tried to get 1? | went to a telepho: “|bers of the House of | REPULSED WITH REVOLVERS Magistrate Moss Discharges Attackers After Reserves Fight Men and Women Who Attempt to Rescue Prisoners | From the Back Room of Precinct House. Magistrate Moss, !n Jefferson Marketjand-tumble fight on the stairs, being heard badly beaten. They arrested Coinsky | and Morris Frier, The whole crowd followed the police |to Mercer street, hooting and yelling. When the prisoners were taken inalde Viotor Frier, of No, 391 Cherry street, a brother of Morris, harangued the crowd and led a charge which overpowered the doorman | The workers swept into the room, beat on the door of the back room and clamored for the release of the prison- of a mob of who stormed the Mercer Street Police Sta-| the story three hundred clothing workers one of thelr number this noon. He heard how the leaders Into the back room, where thelr com- | panion was locked up, and how the re- serves had to draw thelr revolvers to clear the room. He looked at the clothes of Policeman Simon, whieh © torn ers. Some of the police drew revol- by tre natls of the men and women who vers. Others, led by Capt. Henry and had attacked him. Lieut, zosky, beat the mob out to the street. Here Victor Frier advo- d the stoning of the station. While crowd was scattering to collect and Then he discharged the whole crowd lost thelr tempers on Just to thelr mn nd were not account- ey did after that’ ‘ trouble n in the tailor shop) siten, Abraham Quinte, No. 2 Washington lyn ave, Policeman Simon was called by) Polleoman Simon grabbed Meisten the proprietor because a worker named, Fannie Cohen called for rescuers and of No, 38 Bristol street, Brook- | Simon was thrown to the street, Other the missiles the pollce made a selly hes yer, R what t d Victor apt 22 Morrell street, Brook- n, threatened to cle ut the place policemen went to his ald and Simon, ess he was pald his wages, Co- the Cohen girl and Melsten were carried insky had heen "docked." The other in bodily in an inextricable tangle. employees sided with him. The street was cleared and the pris oners were taken to Jefferson Market Court, The magistrate went Into the history of the disturbance, and sald he thought that the workers had learned a Htesson, and he was sure they would be good after this, imon lald his hand on Coinsky and the crowd fell on him, The policeman and sent for the| reserves. C. Henry went to his aid with ten policemen. The reserves found Simon In a rough- CONGRESS LINES UP FOR : FIGHT WITH ROOSEVELT WABHINOTON, Feb. 4.—In anticipa- tlon of the reception to-morrow of aj meseage by the President vetoing the bill making provision for the taking of the thirteenth decennta! censis, mem-| Representatives | to-day began to muster their forces In order to pass the meusure, notwith- standing the President's objections. It! was cald on reliable authority that a sufficient number had hesa pledged to| this course, The movement 13 non-par- | tienn in character, | The President intends to vato the cen- | o: aus bill on account of fts provision ex- cluding 3,000 employees of the census in this city from the classified civil |law to under what conditions per- | service, sons may ‘be employed in the executive If this bill 1s vetoed ft will be the! dopartments, MRS, STUYVESANT FISH JOINS ANTI- oun aeeTTE LEAGUE tive Committee, received a letter from Mrs. Fish in whieh most Important measure he hae an- tagonized in that way, and if Congress {should pass it over his veto {t will be the first time such action has been taken against his wish. The sentiment in Congress favoring the census bill in Ite present form ts so extensive that it 1s generally believed for It. Tf the bill ts repassed over his veto, the President, {t ts reported, will issue ve order directing the holding competitive examinations for those seeking the census jobs. Mr. Roosevelt Insists that he has the right under the National 1. Education of Women that Mrs. that Mra, Fish is opposed to women's suf- frage. The. nal League was estab- lished eight months ago for the express purpose of opposing the spread of|the the woman's suffrage movement, and its alm is to educate women so that they will sce that the ballot {s not the best way out of existing difficulties, AoE Gilbert E. Jones, Chairman of the GALATEA MELTS TO OBLIVION WITH NO PYGMALION HANDY. ue for this the afternoon Stuyvesant Fish had joined onganization, soclety matter over carefully and is strongly which means that|opposed to equal suffrage. Mrs, Rieh Civle Education of Women, and among | hon. vice-presidents are Mrs Grover Cleyeland, Mrs, Andrew Carnegie ind Mrs. David H. Greer, ‘The league | jas Its headquarters at the home of Mrs, Gilbert E, Jones, No, 22 Madison avenue, and also Samuel Me- | that a two-thirds vote can be obtained | leader says she has thought the} ard Watson Gilder ts Presi-| him. dont of the National League for the) something of the sort and had nerved EN STAYS IN HIS CELL - NEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, DESERTED Ui FAINTS AT SLAIN JUSTIGE'S COFFIN New York Woman Says Wil- helm Left Her and Their Children in 1896, BAR NEWARK WIDOW. Not Allowed to Attend Funeral —Third Degree for Sus- pect Sica, The funeral of Frank Wilhelm, the Newark Justice of the Peace who was No. 448 High Monday night, was Interrupted afternoon most by a woman who proclalmed Welhelm a big- She identified the body as that of the man who married her in Jersey murdered in his home at treet, this dramatically amist City fourteen years ago, and deserted her In 1896. The was confirmed by another witness. identification was positive and Mrs. Frederika Wilhelm Is the name of W! | nelm’s first wife. She read in the news: | papers of the Wilhelm case yesterday, and wrote to the Newark police stating she believed the husband. An Evening World reporter took her ‘to Newark with her sister, Mrs, Amelia | Armster. The funeral services at Wi!- helm’s late home were just ending when the two women reached the house and Lentered the room, ‘The undertaker was ‘Just about to piace the cover on the | casket. Faints Beside Coffin. Mrs, Wilhelm ran to the side of the |coffin, gave one glance at the face of the dead man and dropped in a dead faint. Her sister, right behind her, turned to the people in the room and sald: “My God, It's Frank, her husband.” When Mra, Wilhelm was revived she became hysterical. Her screams and gobs could be heard a block away. The confusion was such that the funeral was delayed nearly an hour, The Newark Mrs, Wilhelm, who Is held by the police on suspicion of know- Ing somothing of the killing of her hus- band, was not at the funeral, Prosecu- jtor Mott had given her permission to \attend, but at the request of the detec- | tives on the case he rescinded the order |Just as the woman was making prep- | rations to leave her cell he scene at the funeral was the clt- max of an exciting day In this tragedy Early this morning—within two hours jafter midnight—Nicholas Sica, who is junder arrest charged with murdering | Wilhelm, was taken to the house of the |dead man, where the body ously been planted Sica's Nerves Unshaken Sica was confronted with his alleged victim's corpse, The sight did not feaze He had evidently been expecting The inethod d himself to stand the strain of third degree exercised upon Sica h been used earller in the night with Mrs. | Wilhelm as the subject. She was taken to the Morgue and suddenly shown the body of her murdered husband. The “| result was an attack of hysteria, As soon as Mrs. Wilhelm had coal taken from the Morgue, Wilhelm’s body | was loaded into a wagon and taken 2 his late home at No. 48 High street, The detectives placed their ghastly | den in the basement on the floor at the} exact point where !t was found on Mon- dead man was her| had provie | ur “1909. Se gy “PRICE ONE. Cex) yi at i ASHER HANSEN AN FOR DIVORCE AND FLIGHT Fischer-Hansen and Wife Who | Agreed to Aid Him in Flight, ——_——+ to. ‘Lawyer Indicted for Bribery Had Agreed to Give Wife Freedom and She Was to Make Him Al- lowance to Live Abroad. FATHER-IN-LAW READY | TO LOSE THE $15,000 BOND. Willing to Pay That Much “to Get Rid of Him,” But When Demands Became | | | | Extortion He Revealed the P.ot to Jerome, That Carl Fischer-Hansen, under indictment for bribery, had planned to flee the country, under agreement with his father-in-law, Isaac Brokaw, who was willing to forfeit his bail of $15,609 and contribute to his sup- port in a foreign land for the rest of his life, was the declaration of Dis- ‘trict-Attorney Jerome this afternoon, when argument was heard by Su- tit of habeas corpus for the discharge preme Court Justice Gerard on a of the defendant. While the arguments were going on Carl Fischer-Hansen sat un- disturbed in court, chewing gum. Justice Gerard ordered, after counsel both sides had been heard at length, that the defendant be remanded, Mr, Jerome asserted that information had come to him through counsel for Mr, Brokaw that aa agreement had been entered into between Mr. Brokgw, Mrs. Fischer-Ha the defendant by which Carl Fischer-Haasen was to grant his wife a separation, in retum for which he was to leave the coumpye and ive a lite of ease hereatter at tha panse of bis faoher-in ! “Attpe (tat kad been pract \ settled,” said the District-Attorney, ‘ 1 hen is when | received the into! J I \ ior Fischer-Hansen’s rearrest.” sen to strike his father-in-law for a raise, ition that led me to issue a warrant gf THT = Mr, Jerome prefaced his argument ) | with a recital of the Fischer-Hansen vase. He declared that Mr. Brokaw, ace } cording to the Information furnished ) |lilm, was enly too ready to get rid of - this ‘in-law and that the question a T ] ef 15.00, the amount of Fischer-Han- Luldt i Ki { bail he signed, was insig- Led Brokaw Willing to Pay. "Indeed," added Mr. Jerome, with emphasis, “the defendant's father-In- H a law was willing t to get rid of him When Mr. Jerome started to toll of the |lawyer's plan for filght Lawyer Karlin objected, declaring the statement did not. Bland Ballard, Retired Capital |invoive the question betore the Court, ; which was solely as to the larality of ist and Popular, Victim —jnis ciient’s committment, of Depression. ay almost anything | fon Hi is Reason to Be o on His Guard : It was reported to- ed today that Thornton Ha’ | Jenkins 8, the novel who at} writer, | “I am not abolit to state and irreles ‘ant or scandaolus matter,’ replied Me, ‘ome. “do not know what the District-Ate a|torney is going tc say," sald Justice Geo The Justive said even if the Dis GHIV-GENT CAS hen ee jot Ww | Tach Ci acquitted thre 8 ago J the killing the at shot Bayside th's morn-| CHICAGO, Feb, 4.—Bland Ballard, lineata hia hom ; cal atook Uroke well known as A. reporte Venlag World| oe a ‘ u ie at a {ictrAttorney’ had exercised Ms power found writer of sea stortes at his|® 8%f player, committed suic improperly the Court would have the house, No. 140 Ray | hospital In Lake Forrest to-day. At right o commit the prisoner on the spot. Ridge, where ttle| tr. Rallard’s inte residence it was) He sold he would hear the District-At- daugnter, M his wite being dead. totney and would not discharge the tated over the telephone that Mr. Ball- ‘ovody has sot me,” sald Thornton | Stated over the telepho! Hains, “nobody has even tried to shoo prisoner On any mere technicality. My, | Jerome then continued rd had not been ill and that no cause for the act was known day evening by the widow Pes ede pete etn | Me, Ballard came to Lake Forrest Brokaw Told Jerome. At Scene of Crime ‘Claudia Libby Hains, have been | from Loulsville, Ky. six or seven years| “It was agreed that this prisoner | Then they brought Sica to the hou lu reatening to kill me, and it's possible |480. He leaves a widow, who was Miss | should separate from his wife and give Gaiaten died’ a nwesing: (greasy jeounded env alarm’ but betore’a eee SU aes ae (The man \that they may have attacked some poor | Adele freee cot ays and tr 4e) foe the custody of their child and ree jdeath this afternoon, Apollo lost an|Of rescue could be made Galatea had| in pitch darn ess and s ddenly arraaee | Unite See york a Haiti Se eee Pea eaong bual ess mon was rated as | Gaaea tae ntarenern pre ine conti arm, the Venus of Milo was fu ove : i, Prine and Jay on the| ed a bright light eps ie srded to the |) ne Expecta A ttack: sonat at. (* retired capltalist | The evidence against him seemed of crippled by the loss of both legs, Thal Ata fally Weeeed around ach So ap Hl he could have fouehed Gy purh fon they A ee cae Siete tT eal The Ballard fam fount PGs |such a character that It appeared to dite melted away and Astra, fin ar of the room. and the tie auntie Nice Tan RG arate: Se F ‘ re baal ie an by that that [am going 1 th hea res i: tai haowe, In be vere nd nd UGH 8. Aetee fect Woman.” no) longer twenty p: Iyhoo, the ticket | did not flicker an sh. For more eae aes ‘ e.cane an miyaelty tt with |tomtiersman palikiba and! aootali hlatoryliners yt Here ene tes Bie ese fatalities and en seller and the others within the door! than an hour the stouths piled him with Hanikterntaten (hertacerorutnlie} : Some of Claudia Libby } > es a : alury, Mr. Ballard’ was hoce necro ot ene, Wullnglite ‘edn ttte tn tho A Imulianeous rush for the| interrogations or heaped thi noel eavareal the nlehavscourter diet fea re 10 frame of mind Tee rete eee inlts of the Onwent. | D&y the $15.99) ball bond, and apparently xo. ie z One man complained that he] ousations. They could not dist 181 rection t the Dill of the New 8 Miter may but Calm not yt Gib ab Lake his buoyant malta ae i ue Bs u beh LM banal ae out without trouble, but Mrs, Poreello! ang show the falsity of the statement i eer Povamiencted) ant, te rae ol ia ad) State for atx: months) wesce and uplifting paper | Phe and children in thetr t and] or ana Sa it the eitliwliovmaveche AAT Laie . i that ex! witness for the People would ; csvortds ; cenfuston delayed too tong. Thelr es-!gaw iim leaving the Wilhelm home Be Me have its cara and he could return Atiaml isenm—one of the | cape wax cut off by the stairs, and in-| Sfonday eae rérarcloekocabal BrORReH rf es ; sian Here with impunity tow yi the Howery—is on the | trepld tife sa AVENE TABI ARTHeG aT oecWeitete ee Regen” spwiloh tas, a een enmity nat While X was consideriay whav & ground floor Aas tte g UNE ned from the windows New Woman in Case. viet despite his suny nature, sub. | Mow do, Mr Brokaw telephoned ma 1st below md All through the fire, while the fire. man Withel { d fits of depr lat, tana that, not content with what he had of- floor Is ¢ smashed with thelr axes and) of a fat y ix one of | fred to do for this prisoner. *« had « Poreello, a barber, bla ¥ rivers of waters from their! <0.) coat ay This 0 ted in the these that Mr aBilari: determined. to'l sade @. ateike against bim for more cht dd. Rosenverg € mechanteal piano in front of | ee inte Maas Sih (apron aie Pe the Gn eulehtone jend his Ife money.. In fact that he was relying om vinta thind floor ithe: takdaaren tyatandeca Gang | one: thirtean and ore iwslle years cat’ [accumulated (irouRh the peym ca| it was 1 to-cay at Long Island ena SRT. his arrest and exposure to demand @ The some tienty curious boobs every way they knew to stop ft, but It) An Evening World reporter, learned [the lave went Into effect of ( Ape SLE Ae fats ole Ua Be Fine New Te anion | raise to prevent disgrace boing brougn® the Museum when an attendant no- &F¢ na igus aegee melody until the! ¢rom her this afternoon that ine was | PE thours feet Ir ntent | aftern vf hls acquittal, Thorn. poe class Mownton yeiabitencatt: ne, Ge Gale upon an honorable family and shame Vead a rink Bre age to. the waren | RCGMUDUSRL an dow. 1 ls no eel ene fund comin Per Gt (to ana, ad nt, ben invert Rgrae ey Ska | WOR a tanooeat tle oni presentment of Garacea, He quickly | opened. 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