The evening world. Newspaper, February 11, 1909, Page 1

TWO ESCAPING CONVICTS CAUGHT DON'T ASSIGN GAS CLAIM, SAYS COURT orld, fe Circulation Books Open to All," | “Circulation Books Open to All"! | | L RESULTS EDITION PRICE ONE CENT. NEW YoRK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1909, PRICE | ee) ONE CENT. GAS CONSUMERS WARNED. BY Tie FEDERAL COURT = Victim to Hand Over NE AS ES IS Bag of Money. ; | MAKE THEIR ESCAPE. IN ( UR GV ‘Scene of Crime One of Lone- JUDGE A GARE liest Stations on Brook- | y lyn System. a GIRL “L” AGENT D UP, RCBGED 4 THREE MEN hes Wares Dawah. NET UWE JON ATTACK ON OPERA “SALE Box Holders in Philadelphia Ask Hammerstein — to Cancel Performance. IMPRESARIO DECLINES. _— > ctivities of Gas Consumers’ Audit Company — Brings Quick Action by Lacombe. CITY CANVASS. “MAKES Petition Will Not Attend Production, Concern gents for S. aying They Represent Blames Its Miss Grace West, night tleket agent (Special to The Evening World.) bed Spectators. 7. { anie. ag for the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Com- PHILADELPHIA, Feb, 1 = Osear the U. S, Commissioner, | Spectators, Too, in Panic, as| for the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Com y : | J Ja, pany at the Fifth avenue and Twen- Hammerstetn was to-da confronted _— Doctor at First Thinks It eth street station, was held up by three with a protest from the city’s society | Complaints mode o The avening Small NOX armed men st ly after midnight this women agalnst the production of “Sa- World that nts f alled pant F tas morning and a bag of money containing Jome’ at the Philadelphia Opera- House The Gas Consumers’ Audit Company, of Rta fe a breaking open the to-night. In a last desperate effort No. Broadway, were vore than #txty money dra. f them pressed the canvasing the BABY 1§ THE VICTIM. West Side, were to-day submitted to so close aga prominent in exclusive jal clreles and Special Master John A, Shields th charge ; It ge ase Hae ou NM Shh well known as patrons of muste and the : nga in and she was warned that an outery | of the $12,000,000 gas fund. After an Brought Before Magistrate treant certain deati irtalKenerallvialanediarpelltionicalling: e The three men by Mother Seeking De- whieh Is one of Z 5 5 track serting Husband, Thratorawinevolvere! Miss West sold t 1 tickets, and \\ Veatigation made by men from the off \er representative of tl Wt Court, the Memorandum to the publ tered the station, sland” affairs I about midn for the suppression of the Wilde-Strauss opera and pledging themselves not to ittend the performance to-night Not only 1s the list of signatures tnm- numerically, but in it are the between the was Issue pressive, Byaludgo) H, Henry Gacombe ABIATTRTOULLEEIRDCCIAIETaRater TTT tae eceee Th VU CHCl names of women who have heretofore All persons entitled to reftind ||) 30 Ui in ine Heatord Avenue Court | werrutne te } lng, ‘ \ identified with those who have sup- from the moneys deposited by the | °°” mes weer SMORIM ES IB ATOE TAY in the iat ported Hammerstein's Opera House, @everal gas companies are again Brooklyn, was pretty much upset for Eta called ¢ the you an Among them are Mrs. Frederfck man » the notified that under the regulations | hour approved by the Court they will | to-day by the bellef that small- peek fhurston Mason, Mrs, Samuel F, Hous ton, Mrs. J 1 Ba latove an | pox was loose Jn the court room. But Socsive, thle rebates promptly end |e was not smallpox. It was only Ae ait a Seas al Spee a a will hold on to their receipts and | "sles eesti ea aishrpcies } roe en | }] The movement was started by Mra + motity of any change of address, | The Court was crowded, There was | 1808 ents Ady ln Hae : Chase Whelan, of No. 2133) Walnut} * WMOSE OF THEM WHO AssIGN [#7 Unusual number of young women | er and with @ jet § pcale street, Who was one of the prime, Ti) THEIR CLAIMS, OR WHO SIGN | }"eseit_ because of the Hlallenbach at- i erin movers for the Introduction of opera CONTRACTS WITH SOLICITING |tinpted bigamy case. Mrs, Hatlenbach | oNQM Ot eas in this elty AGENTS TO PROSECUTE THE | W!0 received an Invitation to her ume) ad Ca ictal Shortly before 4 o'clock thts afternoon | SAME, ARD PUTTING THEM. |{!vorced husband's second marriage, OT Ue : meat LROUIhEr the formal protest of the sixty leading | SELVES TO UNNECESSARY Ex. | Had at least six sympathetle youn a naw revolvers poe REPS ¢ er tn soclety Women of Philadelphia against | PENEE AND ARE PROBABLY friends cath her, and there were m cH Ne ee ee cen production of ‘Salome was. pro | STPONING THE others who cate out of curiosity ‘iat Nee ay ; 5 ANI POLIS RAND ATED a lapatl - Ciey sented to Oscar Hammerstein. — Mr. pes REFUND CAW Bl! MADE: Mra, Clara Schwartz, x homeless | 7. eh thew Astor Wilks Is Fiance of Richest Woman's Only Girl, Hammerstein, glancitx at the Hst and A een "| woman, with her cighteen-months-old ey py i, ib ; | seeing the name of Mrs. Charles S$. Commissioner Shields added the f0l-) paby Morris in her arms, came before WO BD cl According to Notice Made Public by His Relative INOHEIRRSTRERS Atl elt orerTne RRC eave Ta? lowing card to the public: volvers at me, and I wa y | . $a Jart and thuste In this city, atte at Galt, Ontario, enteaala Looted Cash Drawer. i Into the ticket the Magistrate to ask that her hus- Zo the Gas Consumers of New band be found and compelled to sup- Yor! port her. Information having come to me {| A physician at the head “Is this lady one of my subseribers? I do not think so." that] “One of the men came ae a in court noticed h that agents representing various [the child was suffering from a bad | booth and forced open t m an GALT, Ont, Veb 11—Miss KL. '[fonishing things to the persons who sald] ‘Then, referring to his book, he con- alleged auditing companies are He told the Magistrate ho |(tawer, A man held me with | woes of this city, .is notifying her [tat she did not know how to spend | tinued, sie is not. Why should using my name in a collection of {t was smallpox. The Magia. |S revolver, and the third wer honey, |The engagement was dented by | she get up such a petition?” gas receipts, I wish to sorve notice several irenje andthe feat of the; atalrsy: with) his) irevoly Bln Galtiot: theetollowing als iit raaKc and her dental was core} ‘But, Mr. Hammerstein, there are on the public that such rep: nta- went white, But he had presence of easels He evidently was on the nouncement made this week to the roborated then by Mr. Wilks, who was | Some sixty other ladies whose names tions are entirely false and with- | mind to order the doors of the court |S20Uld any ove come up to n friend at No. 40 M ft 3 e subse nd to order the doors of the co! : ee wea tends ©. 40 Madison avenue, In| are on this petition, who are subscrib- | ott any foundation, Gas congum- |-losed and then liad h's probation of ae EI ERC SKS Mrs Green, New York, an-|thia’otty, Terartonthe: phiiadbipniatOneranivoune ers, who have been already warned | tlcer telephone to the Board of Health. nn ean who was ete hounces the cngngement of only | Matthew Astor Wilks Js the son of | protested the women's representative, by the Court, should look to it The squeals and howls of anger and, qrawor got held of A purse cont lar, Miss Sliviay to Mr. Mat | Matthew Wilks, who was well known In] Mr. Hammerstein said in reply: that they are not defrauded of — fright which rent the alr of the room mar Tieant : ae New York, eldest son New York society and dled at his home | “What are sixty as compared with four their rights. I have authorized no after the rumor t n to spread were pped It, He | nto the bag thew Wiks, Crulckst 1 Canada, June 1807, leaving a for- | thousand? | Agents to collect gas receipts marvellous, es ' ne of many millions of dotlars, Hila} He then abruptly declared the inet: | { The Gas Const s' Audit Company 1s | Dr. Bailey came down from the Board sie two men then from the mors of the engag on has lived in New York about hal¢ | ent was closed so far as he was con- mined the Sch t with fte mo Hospital. Magis a/of Health and. exz ne {baby and had it s.| to the Kings County located on the third floor front cerned, ) building at No. 25 Broadway j the time and hooth Just as a man ¢ opposite door from where Wilks was 4s well known at sugh the| M Greon to Mr, Ne lookout | ctrer at the time of Mrs : “HEARS COMPANY MUST. MUST. BY FINGER CIT Newport as here of the many mushroom gas bill ati rate rane amon et , stood, I called to this man: ‘I am being| famous d } tion agencies which are springing up all | tate Higginbotham reconvened court Oss athe man stood still moat the city, }with the glad RElonp Tats Mag ned |iesen uaesai nea theatre already resigned himself to knowing his | 24% Sees frightened than I. mily only by telephone for the next sl vad Ye Bene te NeXULimie twomeni then lect dat a desk at the Week. 3 ‘ By Consent of Court, He Said. Avyoung man Tear of the o |] as Barnett, in an Evening World concern, 8 “We are sea ng men came thré stood. [ enlled Don't let ‘i two you to an Inquiry from : reporter about his Rners) the dummy Goes them: ‘I have been ri those three men get away’ Those men weren't dummies n this business They | i pine Fal Hen ore Unies | 6 started for the three men before they | et i Pes ml eiweiiet WOUTICOPEnT IL 1a got to the street, and then I ran out o} ¢ eo ara } ear ey i he platti d tried to scream, bu {| prarjenkes, ie \ ) Se eto aie tram trian “| Corporation Is Capable of Entertaining Malice, Court Says, Rea Heme slaw yer wae the "A few minutes later @ train tne i eply. in Overruling Demurrer to Charge Based on Com- | Blood potsoning resulting from a slight “He {s associated with a number of | gentlemen. While our concern is not incorporated, we are un record at the County Clerk's office.” | “What are the names of the gentle- men with whom you are associated” “There {s a Mr. John Smith,’ replied the young man, “a Mr. Brown and some other gentlemen, but you will have to \ pee Mr. Rowe. He has charge of the whole matter.” cut on the finger during an operation caused the death yesterday of Dr. Adolph yon Duertng, @ noted Bronx The surgeon, plaint of J. D. Rockefeller Jr. |atong and I reported to a guard that 1 Sixteenth street and the police of the | Fitth avenue station were asked to} ze come to my assistance.’ Escaped from Pureucre, The two young men who chased the noon Juatice Dowling overruled the robbers did not give their names, The police learned that the men chased Tan, filed In Yonkers yesterday provides robbers to a tenement house In Fifth |for the payment of $1,000 to each em- avenue, between Ninetesnth and Twen- Sint } Lying on the desk in front of Mr,|Ployee of the Smith Carpet Company, tleth streets, There the robbers ran York American, with criminally Hheling eee ant iinee ‘ } Barnett was a huge stack of gas re- j who has been In the company's employ into a hallway and disappeared. They John D. Rockefeller tr. Under the de commit a felony; that ft can be capable rt ile ni r. esperearest ceipts, which in all probability had been | twenty years or more, are belleved to have reached the roof cis the Star Company will have to of having the intent, Knowledge or | hen aeRnaert tne ee obtained 49m gas consumers. As tbe number of such employees 1s and escaped to the street down the plead to the Indletment malice necessary to ¢ tt aerime, and | aet Us) ure co it He ae cel fe 4 ‘VYhe Evening World reporter next |! excess of 260, this means that the scuttle of some other ho Mr. Shearn, after seeking to have the| that, In particular, tt can commit the in cotault WKa BOS AMIEL AR Racers o Visited a number of dwellings along | total amount of this single bequest will! ‘When the police did arrive thay sent Indictment sot aside the) erlme of publishing a Ithel Scars’ wate eenovleilite I valan DE fos: Twenty-fourth street, and at No, |De more than $260,000, Mrs. Cochran |out reserves and wetectives in every ground that @ corporation, heing simply RTL RSEAL Clos esto Nay axnroeely Von ring realised (o the very last @@ found physical proof of the collec- | atno bequeaths property in Maine toj direction, but no trace of the robbersja plece of business machinery, cannot provides for he punishment to be Ine the Utter hopsleaaean GE1Ha ARLE ENAE tion of money by an agent representing | the House of the Good Shepherd, an| could be found entertain malice and: cannot, therefore | flicted upon a corporation when if ts) Ot ae tie, even better than Hehissipany, A-woman, whose |name la | orphanage, Miss West {s twenty year old, and |commit criminal bel, He submitted «| convicted of an offense for the com.) TiN ORE MMT withheld, surrendered her reeeipt from| Mrs, Gochran's husband, who died | ha sheen a ticket seller for the B, RT. |tengthy brief, IMatrict-Attorney Jerome, mission of wh a AMAR Utd) proach cf the end, with its inevitable Magent No. 12,” who claimed to be in| seven years ago, it 1s understood, was | for the past year, She has been at tho /submitted a brief in support of the tn-| wor M1 be “punished with tnprtsonment, | PEmeY the employ of the Gas Consumers’ Audit |one of the owners of the carpet con- | Twentleth streot sation for two weeks, | dictinent. Used | Hw was born in Hamburg, Germany. ihszany. Gaia taant toned! his 18 one of the :nost lonesome — One Woman's Experlence. a | ' | | surgeon and physician. "A careful examination,” sald Juaticn Dowling Jn his decision, “of the authori. While performing the operation in his tlea cited In the able brief of the de.{ office, No. 11% Washington avenue, in fendant’s attorney does not discloxe any | the Intter part of Jeauary, was chang- xround for questioning the correctness |!N& the operating knife from one hand of the proposition that under the sta. [to the other when tt allpped from his tutes of this State a corporation can | @tasp. Hoe caught tt as It was falling In a dectaton handed down this after- It developed to-day that one of the bequests {n the will of Mrs. Clarence 8 murrer filed Jan. 18 by ava Coch- Shearn to the indictment, charging tte Company, publisher of the New demurred H In 18h2 ) and out, firat; Mixe Padden, ¢ to 1,! ty-seven : n mere | came to this city when twen- o tluns In Brooklyn, ‘Three tmos it hus und removed to the Bronx { been robbed in the past ‘i t le 6 to 6 and ‘ a 6 to ‘ ; On the back of the receipt the woman SKATING AT VAN CORTLAND. asec ERENT Ae de se TAMPA RESULTS, re pu aah \ t 1885, He belonged to many organisa- T\ wrote ter experience of Wednesday | The lake In Van Cortland Park is ay who solla tickots in the station at] maytpa, Flay Feb. ih—The races to pr — a | ASK HUGHES TO NAME DEY, th street was and her Ywenty- ssaulted by a thrown open this. gong « for what promises to be the {0m her. FIR Ited wa folloy RACE—Four-year-olds and i 8: glasy ice, and was ruvbers money taker | day res morning with the agent, which is as|frozen with a good sheet of smooth, i? BATTERED SCHOONER IN | Feb The name agent said Commissioner Shields | Mornin: P 1 r iy al the bonding of this com. |best skating this year. The ice is nine Miss \Witrt, thom at Bho wiht be bg | wards: selling: Ave f Pane fp AYCIAER wk wel Dey, of Sackets Harbor, was \ » made up of twelve men, each | inches thick and in splendid condition, on the fob to-vight 104 (D, Murphy), $ to 1, & Ly Bate etal ante pet ‘ vad to Gov. Hughes to-day for uy i: pS. tt Sa [first; Charley Lask, 108 (Lor to. 3, | awey, the AA Gsacbh eke oak | consideration as minority representati Donded at $1,000. The bills are to be) 80 hurry up you skaters, Jeven and 1 to 2 aecond: H | Cressy, hound from Newport Nows for|- the rows h Ba! pts eollected by those men, who will turn Le CRG TIT Fine New Turkish Rathe 8 to 8,4 to i jon theinew State Highway Commission the New Hulltzer Building, Qnty | Time—1i6 2-4. “Dona He” Moyes, Re. | Portlar ho put tn here Man for repairs. | by a delegation from Jefferson County Onn eatadlisnment, Modern every. Odd ‘Trick, Aleara, fu schooner was exposed to unusually | he fetal Fixcirie and oe es _ © Fan, ‘ales barber shop open 3 L a dy Aged elie aperati me The World’s Travel Burea ery Purcell, 3 i Sag aay way eather all the way up the coaat | Dey has been much interested in good * a Foam) SECOND RACE—Artful Dodeer, 7 a Free Hampton Roads toads building in Jefferson County, ltl - i ‘ J eg! Notables Who Circulated! women, all of them Gardner Cassatt and Mrs. 1 DEFEND LIBEL INDICTMENT N OP PATION Se recognized the ap-| PAUL KELLY MICARTHY, ‘Motorman: Serving Policeman O TOO WORN Prison— Would Afler going -for three days and or sleep and travelling something lik Monday from the convict camp on |Mountain, on the west bank of the ‘noon in West New York, N. J. Under guard of the men who caught them the pair of exhausted refugees | were brought across the river this af- | |ternoon and taken to Pollce Headquar- ters. ‘They will be carried back to Sing | Sing to-night. Release Was Near. Kelly was the motorman of an "L" \train that plunged from the structure at Fifty-third street and Ninth avenue In) September, 1904, while running at exces- |sive speed around a curve. He escaped | ‘at the time and was captured later In| San Francisco, returned to New York, tried and convicted of manslaughter McCarthy 8 an ex-policeman serving a term for extortion, Both men would have beon released next summer. By their break for Mb- | erty they forfelt their good time. They | were employed with a gang of convicts clearing the ground for the new prison ‘near Highland Falls, and slipped away lin the dusk, losir@ themselves in the Junderbrush, Of nine prisoners who have | eacaped from the camp all have been re- ‘aptured but one. Story of Recapture. | Word reached Chief of Police Glelte- jman, of West New York, that two | peculiarly acting men had been seen) lurking on a wooded hill near the town, which is between Hoboken and Wee- | With Roundsman Wallace he hawken, They found McCarthy first, He was! hanging about an outbullding of a farm- ‘houne waiting to get @ chance to steal | la bite to eat. He was ready to drop. | {too weak to make any show of resist- | | ance or to try to flee further. His gray prison wniform hung on him in rags His feet were on the groand, for his brogans had fallen to plece His oyas were wide staring and, he| m trom reemed on the verge of deliriu exhaustion i give up," two officers something to eat After pol he said at aight of the “For God's sake, give me I'm all tn handeuffing MeCarthy to the started to flid Kelly thelr search led nek River, ‘8 under a pile of canvas 6 upon the ex-motdrman, He endered almost gindly, saying an ns preferable to what he hi eran they tded by son undergone. Were Nearly Starved. Although famished for food and weary vas in to the point of exhaustion, he far better plight than hie o His custome was a wierd of rage of prise dy and rag car e had picked up. He was bare f headed At the police station the man ate like #t6 dog When they reach York ned together and ha arrted Inspector MeCafferty's ate again—ate enough to fer |half dozen men, wolfing the fe s animals. they McCarthy became hysterical, beggin hatwaan aohe to he allowed to cee Ns wife beforethe went back to hls cell “Rut I'd do it all over again.*he keot and Charles J, McCarthy, the two Si |ornat —s ND ESUAPED CONVICTS, CAUGHT (es Term for Causing Fatal “L” Wreck and Former verhauled in | West New York. STARVED THREE DAYS AND OUT TO FIGHT. 'Had Been at Work on Clearing for Site o: New Have Been Set Free This Summer but for ‘‘Break.”’ nights practically without food, rest ea hundred miles afoot, Paul Kelly ing Sing prisoners who escaped late the sits of the new prison at Bear Hudson, were captured this after. declaring, “We were starved tn that camp and treated worse than beasts by |the most inhuman set of guards that ever lived. Ill get the dungeon and ['m | near dead, but I'd do It again.” Escape Was Easy. Kelly was almost cheerful, After he had gorged himself until he could not force another mouthful down his throat. he talked willingly enough. “We just walked away,” he sald, Was all, It was eosy enough, ‘There were seven guards to forty-eight men, and in the fog, that was thick along the river Monday, we slipped away and beat It Into the wood! We figured that the Erie tracks were twenty miles west and made for «hem, We walked nearly all night, going west as well as we could Judge by the stars, But the fog was so thick we couldn't see anything much and got twisted around, “We had one match, With It we Kindled a fire and laid down by It to \sleep. When we woke up It was ratning and the fire had gone out and we were {wet to the skin Back In Sight of Prison, “Next morning we decided that we were on the wivng track and we tried to make our way back to the West Shore tracks. We were wet through, half frozen and hungry, We finally hit the river again only a few miles from where we sturted. I would say we had travelled about forty miles then and | Sing Sing was still in sight “A woman at Stony Point—God bless her—gave us a crust of bread, That was every bite we had to sat “We started down the abhor toward New York. We figured !f we could get {nto town our friends would ald us “Tt was terrible, We dared not try to tackle trains because the erews would spot us. We walked all night and moat K sometimes In the n't sleep, we were too nd hungry pers from the {so far as we e still am of the day, hidin woods, We cold and scare Ww. uve » looked Uke us would be spotted anywhere, We hadn't dared to y ure near any houres, but At last we got desperate, and McCarthy om weakness n't go any further venty millet ft the West all raw, He 1 hid tn the Ket food or else know the reat.” sleeping the gat man sleep of exhaust on thelr way back up the rive prigon aioe Ss TWO DEAD FROM FIRE RUINS. CHICAGE odlea were ! |