The evening world. Newspaper, February 27, 1909, Page 1

IMOHAWK OFF THE ROCKS nn WOMEN HURT IN “LD PANI PRICE ONE OENT. MEN IN ai SONS BAR BLL a0 PER EEK TRIPLE ON | “NOTE ALE » WOM N ti i She Has Commission Named ) Test Young Moore’s Mental Condition, — Many Faint When Guard With Ablaze Is Clothing Ablaze Is Hurled NOT SOBER IN 4 YEARS.| Into Car. | pas ‘He Admits FLAMES ADD TO TERROR. | Drinking, Blames His Family—Wife in an Asylum, Explosion Follows Short Cir- . cuit Caused by Trainman | acioraing to / , Who Is Badly Burned, {827 Eighty-fifth street, her affidavits made by Mrs. Moore, of No, 349 West William J. who enjoys an income son, Moore, estate of his Cohoes Woollen for A brass rod fastened to the bottom of hastily by a father, who owned Mills, hi past four the been drunk , during which a guard on a Third avenue ade and pulled down but; Che { | iu Ciroalation Books Open to All.”’ y u Circulation Books Open to All. ee Weather—Cloudy To-Night; Sundny Fale und Colder PINAL wy YORK, SATURDAY, ‘FEBRUARY 27, 1908, MILLONARE | HOOTS Al BURGLAR —_eo Lawrence Mott Routs Gang in Midnight Battle at Coun- try Home. | Pursues Them Till Exhausted, but They Reach Auto and Escape. from the! Masked burglars made thelr third at- of J ott, grandson of Jordan L, ‘tempt to rob the hom. Lawrence Mott, on Tarrytown road, near White Plains, last |night. ‘They were driven off by young millionaire himself, of a sickbed, | his wife and chased the ir repeating rifle, wa night with shot after st He believes wounded ¢ of them, and marks on Ms lawn 4 the subsequent behavior of a myst s gang Ina auito- mobile early this morning who got out eluded his two nurses and ruders with a Westchester rang = time me of his drink bills at the noon to-day came Into contact with t ne | vipa Ware NEIiVede RESET motor-box, In which a powerful current | $300 a week. All this came of electricity was passing. There was a/ out to-day at a hearing before a com- vivid’ flash, a report as mission which, with a Sheriff's jury, pounder, and the guard was t was appointed by Justice Gerard on | sprawling Into a filled with pase| "8 Moure’s application to have her sengers, many of whom were | son's condition inquired into, The guard lay there, squirmir George Hood, proprietor of the King With his face and hands burn Edwa pl, in an affidavit sald tha tnd his clothes blazing. A panic was! Wi! he was stopping there yo ftarted by the excitable ones, women Moore was more or less continually fainted and half crazed men trampled |“"UNk. According to a statement sub- | mitted to the commission William J. Quinn jr., of the Hotel Empire, Moore's routine was to get out of bed at about 6 down everything in an effort to reach, the doors of the car. Passengers Hurled About o'clock in the morning, take several There was a small fire In the motor drinks, then eat a few mouthfuls, have f box stall which licked up the curtain more drinks, then go downtown In a | | and ecorched the varnished woodtork, taxicab, and home again at about 7 and, while all was in great confusion, PM. and then, after more drinks, to the train, obeying the emergency bed brakes, came to a suitden halt, hurlin Kept Bartender Busy. passengers against each other and over| John O'Day, the bartender at the Em- eats. | pire, said Moore’s requirements kept Strong and weak were in an Indiserim-| him busy mixing pouring all the inate mass. ‘time. He dran ling to O'D. The guards of the train, under Con- Guctor Charles Murphy, finally restored order, and the train, which had been approaching the One Hundred and For- ty-ninth street station, was brought} slowly to the platform, where the fright- ened passengers were allowed to leave F the car six or seven cocktatis With this. repast, he down about the ye Nighballs. When he ved home in the taxi in the morning he would have two or three pints of champagne as a biacer. One morning, says O'D: young Moore drank §1z of wine in half an hour as a bracer, Moore submited an before dinn managed to slip ne number of r The fainting women were carried out, and the unconscious guard, who all this time had lain neglected at the forward yyy behalf denying end of the car, was lifted into the arms) grunkard | of several policemen and carried into) «31y mother is very strict and de- the station. |stres me to make my home with her, The guard was Joseph McGovern, Mt- | hut she imposes restrictions on ms Watmonveataouliwnonll\eaiat SSI personal Hberty to which as T am no Unton avenue, in the Bronx, He was tony eee Tinaee gateman on the second car of the seven- affidavit: on his that he was a forms In the refused to! " bellet. Mr, Mott pursued the thi fell fainting with He crawled back up hia panie-stricken household yes until he his own road to who did t of bed, not even thougit know he and It was nearly o'clock this morning when, awakenin Mr Mott tiptoed downstairs without waking the two nurses or his wife and young son, who were sleeping in nearby rooms, ‘The servants were all away at a White Plains ball. The gs, of which Mr, Mott has s making a did not h teen In his Kennels, were at to-do, and the burglars Mr, Mott. Opened Fire on Men, The young groped his way into bi ud got a repeating rifle and Jamas, went out into the front hall, He was quite sure, he sald, th he the figure of a man cross a Hight in front of the hous and that) th were other shadow) bushes on the ealled to the man he thought he saw, and the fellow emerged into the ligh He was tall and thin and wore a bla mask. Mr, Mott spoke again, and the man ran in the direction of the road, lawn, Hi ear out his THINKS ONE WAS. HIT! the | Weakness In the road. | submit.” he declares and was joined by three others. As SED tele admit f have been in the habit of they disappeared Mr. Mott fired the Every Car Filled drinking. The opposition of my father | Hille at them i again. He yan Every car of the train was well filled, to my marriage, bis cutting me off in, down the roady t ytown Many women on thelr way to the sb his will, and t un pathetic way | rod, but they were not in it there ping district or early theatregoers oc- inv which my mother acts as trustee of} Mr Mott fainted in the road and cupled seata In McGowen's car, The my pittance and the almoner of the) When he revived was so Weak that he train had left the One Hundred and large income she rece fro mmy { COWld not even carry the gun back to | father's estate, have been enough embitter my life and make me some- times careless in my personal habit 1 deny that I am a physical wreck or that Iam Incapable of managing my- self or my affairs.” Victim of Red Acne. Fifty-sixth street station and was mo {ng rapidly when McGowan notlced that the shade hanging Inside the mo- tor sta!! was raised. ‘The rules require that this shade be kept down, and he opened the door of the stall to pull it down. Along the foot of the shade is a heavy brass “weight rod’ that keeps) py George 8. Youngling, of No. 453 the shade taut, and as McGowan drew | west Thirty-fourth street, sald Moore ft down with @ quick jerk the end of! snowed no signs of chronic alcoholism, the rod struck the box. but suffered from a disease known as Instantly there was a short clrcult. req acne, which caused a redness ex- Flames blazed up all around him, and tending over all his face and the skin of his eyelids Attorney Benne Lewisohn, Dr. Cyrus Edson and Philip F. Donohue are the members of the commission. Henry J Crawford, of Albany, Ix the committee of the estate of the young mans wife, Mrs. Anna C, Moore, whom he married years ago axainst his father's wishes. Young Mrs. Moore is now tn a lunatic aylum at Harrison, N. Y, Moore | declares that on account of his marriage | his father cut him off from an estate of (Continued on Second Page.) ——___ BABY WHO CAPTURED J, PIERPONT MORGAN. : read this: Virginia Marle Burbige: adam: I have the honor to in-| (0 # year. form you that at a meeting of the ——»>—_ Bound of Tranarshadon Zen. 4 402, REGIMENT OFFERS REWARD H FOR GIRL’S ASSAILANT. Metropolitan Museum of Art as . ‘e’ low. for life, “L beg to Inclose to you herewith a) warinTOWN, N. Y., Feb. 2.—Col certificate of membership which ca-! pautding, commander of the Twenty- fourth Infantry, colored, stationed at Madison Barracks, Sackett’s Harbor, to- titles you to all the privileges of this grade of membership and your perma- | Respectfully day {sued an order forbidding the en- listed men frem entering that village nent admission ticket "4 0 witjout first having secured a pass. Bon ve De NOnEey A'Yeward. of $10) has. been’ ratsed by “Secretary.” (thie inembers of the regiment for the The little Miss to whom this letter capture of the assailant of Edith Gam- was sent was but six months old. The Dley, providing, he proves to be a mem- membership reterred to cost $5,000. The De! Of “He resinens } amount was pald by J. Plerpont Mor-! TAFT.IN WASHINGTON a fi IWa an Interesting story how Mr. Morgan met and was “captured py" this little girl, The whole affair, © om beginning to end, will be “featured” in| to-morrow's Sunday World. To avold a possibility of missing it oréer your copy of the Sunday World te efvasce, WASHINGTON, Feb, is pre-Ptesidential tra att re at 4.46 o'clock this afternoon, —Winding up els, William H. to | the house. He revived and crept back tc che house, wlive he found every- thing in an uproar. “Auto Gang" Is Busy. Elmsford, Briarcliff, Larchmont, Yonk- ers and the outskirts c? White Plains have been visited by burglars quently of late. The thieves are known to travel about the country in an au- tomobile quite as though they had been reading burglary maga ines. Just before Mr, gered Into the house the women are sure they heard an automobile begin chugging on the Tarrytown road and then puff away toward Elmsford. Mr. Mott was very sure he hit a burglar. An examination of the lawn this morning showed some heavy body had been dragged across the grass. An Itallan 4 msford reported to-day that an automobile passed him on the Tarry- town road at 2 o'cloc morning with four men In it, Two men in the tonneau were supporting a third, who seemed to be hurt * Mr, Mott is a grandson of Jordan 1, Mott, the founder Mott Tron Works. He has wr eral books, most of them dealing with life in the FOR HIS INAUGURATION. | thomas s ccompanied by Mrs. Taft, arrived pe Lny Parcel Parcel and Bag Cues mecha cals Canadian woods, and many — short stories. He is well known in the New York Yacht Club and always sails his own boat. It was said at his bome this morning that he was in bed to-day covering from the fatigue of last night's affair, but It was not thought that his iliness will be seriously aggravated by his experience, Detectives are at work in every town in Westchester County trying to get some trace of burglars. — PASSENGERS ON BALTIC, Among the passengers sailing on the White Star line teamship Baltic for via Queenstown, to-day were elson Page, the author; Lady Clifford and Rev. M Martin. ld's Travel Burean. de Booth, New Pul tnformation. Tickets, Fulles fre- | | t the | [were packing up their ki Wreckers as They Lifted the Cutler. Off Hog’s Back Reef in Hell Gate (Photographed Especially for The Evening World by a Staff Photographer.) | | 1 DEAD, 30VNG NV EXPLOSIN ——— NURSE POISONS MOTh STAKE AT BOYS BR ——++ Gladys Schmidt Dving From Carbolic Aci Which Mrs. Bailey Administered in Place of Soothing Drops. Worker's Pick Strikes Stick | Which Failed to Go Off in Blast. Because a trained nurse made the ye actedent was ex! ye explosion of a forgotten silck of| sear LLL Si Aa instances the] namite resulted this afternoon in the | bottle, Mrs, Gl mid late this afternoon aie War : ious assault [killing of one man and the maiming of SA eee ANS See Melee six others in an excavation for a new apartment hoise which is being built at Hogta t One Hundred and Sixty-third street bolle acid poisoning, and Ogden avenue, the Bronx, The Att ne, N ae CNC concussion shattered all the windows | a : ae on the easterly side of the Altamonte | ") apartment house, at No, lu) Bast One | Hundred and Sixty-third t, and| | f sh up the whole neighborhood, he man who was killed is ony | man, with a fine sou this morning, The | hg woman was attended by the fam- snite, of One. Hundred and Forty: ily physician, Dr. Charles H, Dockstad- leg th street and Park avenue. Tony / ter, of No, 483 Manhattan avenue, and | | Bariette, Wh No. 1h ah t One Hunted f and Twelfth street, Thomas Marielii, Dr. J Ludin, a consulting stclan. | No. rris avenue, and Jolin Florelil, mewn were any Mts ildt's 127 Villa avenue. are dying In the | Bordnam Hospital with fractured skulis mother, Mrs, John H. Cronin, who also jand. Internal Injuries es. Minor injuries | Seti tn ena itr cy aetna Mt ULE Ink, Inletts3, Goff (Citiellie weet siny DIR Nas hel ae | B ithy 1 xplode. Fiorelli, with the others, was nurse, of No. Ann's avenue nati, Stricken With Apo- removing the rocks loosened by Uie first | hol last. He Was using his plek when the} Takes Wrong Bettle. arti Hs oy xplosion happened. — Dontto, imm ARES Meer a ee eo plexy in His Room. Sely above: the iace: where "Fiorelli strong and lusty, the two physicians | _ | The police’ decided that the explosion bags to leave |was solely the result of an accident house, and Dr, Ladin was already H ¢. manufacturer, of /an dno arrests were made Mra. Mar- : hen ‘ Walsh, the wife of a police ser- when Alves. Selim Race ‘street; Olnolnnatl wes Ha was passing at the time of the spell. Dr. Doe! Batley found dead | 1 accident. Before the arrival of the ound dead In his room In the Lafayette | te iince she helped the other work: Bath, No. 403 Lafayette street, to-!men care for the injured men told young motier a teaspoonful from a bot- tle of soothing drops that was on a aay fopleys ce a all | —_->-- | fe alongside the bed, The bottle was) Manager L. M. Cronk, alarmed’ by th | eaenie F : aie aayaatancs ith failure of Mr. House te apfpar today, | PASSENGERS BURIED IN | Mra to give the! WRECKAGE OF TROLLEYS. anoti containing a carbolic acid solution for antiseptic purposes that stood alongside of it In the dimly lighted room the nurse got the bottle of poison, The moment broke Into his room. | The Covoner granted permission for | | pmoval of boc , . Pe tet slau dseaeen oakU Cars Crashed Head-on Near Bridge and a Number of the Occu- BANKER SIMMONS BETTER, *™ * N e Occ | the flery fluid passed down throat tna Mrs. Schmict screamed and went into pants Injured. | ons, Realizing at once what) WH! Probably Be Able to Leave) COLUMBUS. 0., Feb. 27.—Five per-| she had done, Mrs. Batley gave the Home Tuestay, | sons were seriously Injured and a score AGG almost instan two doc [slightly to-day when a car of the Ohlo| At the home of J. Edward Simmons, re ete: BBSK tS President of the Fourth National Bank, Pectrie Railway Compaiy. at a culve working ve her life. Policeman ay'Ny. 3 Wost Fifty-necond #treee iy, mile east of West Jefferson, crashed Murphy, who had seen Mrs. Cronin Wag said to-day that he had nent {/into another from Springfteld filled with running to the door to recall Dr. Ludin, * Pent & oassengers. Misinformation through! the hospital on a ‘phone, and Dr, Very Comfortable night and that he| making reports over the telephone Is mital on : T was greatly improved said to have caused the collision with an ambulance and pie physicians that the banker) , fhe most seriously injured are: FR. G ed the other two. mi foubtedly be abl Sliger, motorman, Columbus; Martin will undoubtedly be able to go to the Murray, “broom. "maniitacturer, West The Nurse Collapses. Nr. Simmons was stacked, REX Jeffebson, and Mrs, James Akinen, West Anhouahertulls eeallaing he veonne ivhile ona Subway train Wit defferson. ‘The collision occurred near a quences of her erro: Bailey re- and taken to the Hudson >ridwe & ach | mained calm, performir Titles Street Ho but later removed to ——>—— | his home, al Fernin ae a : TAMPA RESULTS. \ wife, who had never yet se cry 4 TAMPA, Fla., Feb. 27.—The results to in the ambulance. Then she collapsed eee under the strain of grief and remorse,! While at work on the third floor of grRsT RACE—Three-year-olds and going into violent hysterics and falling the bullding at No. 17 West Thirtieth upward; se f Katle upon the floor, It was more than an street to-day Joseph Winter, thirty- 1 | before then phvalela . five years old, a sign painter, of No. 224 Nour beers. be f yalclana got her reat ‘Twenty-fourth street,” lost his nerves under contro balance and fell to the street It was stated at the hospltal that there — His skull was fractured and he died was practically no hope for ‘Mrs, (shortly afterward in the New York Although both Dr. Dockstadter Hospital. bi SECOND RACE Three ve otim's thro’ ol * elling; six and a victim's hearthroken mother, DEFICIENCY BILL PASSE ee utumn. sald, SHINGTON, Feb 77 a leven and 1 to 2 won Fine New Turkish Bathe UO BUINO TON! Ae Within famiehy, #0 1,39 Land s to 6, ae ing. Only |thres hours after it had been reported Kurtactan, 1M (Pendergast. 2 ‘ he Malern the House {6 wey, spension of to 5 and 2 to 10, third. Tir 23 1-4 c bathe ithe rules General Defi: | Nias ran—Claiborne, Prince Alert, Or “tina varver aap oven day 4 | clency RSprdpriation ‘un. \mamoon, &t. Abe MONK 5 LOM ishoal, U RESULTS EDITION & PRICE’ ONE CENT. Ort HELL GATE REE TER MANY EFFORTS oHe Wrecking Tugs and Sister Revenue Cutter Powhatan Tow Battered Vessel, Full of Water, Into a Dry Dock. CUTTER ON ROCKS CAUSED SINKING OF BARGE NEAR HER ‘Captain and Young Wife, Trapped in Cabin, Asleep, Narrowly Escap2 With Their Lives . From Craft Foundering After Col- li:ion at Fatal Spot. The expedient of lightening the revenue cutter Mohawk’s bunkers of the extra coal which had so weighted her down that it was blamed |by Long Island Sound pilots for causing her to ground on the Hog ‘Back Reet yesterday, proved successful at high tide at 3 o'clock this atternoon, The Mohawk rose with the tide until she jagged point of rock on which she was stuck and then slid: backward genily, urged by cables on which the wrecking company’s tugs were pulling, aided by the revenue cutter Powhatan. Pontoons were lashed to both sides of the cutter as she left the She was filling fast with water and the pontoons were necessary tor buoying her up. The Mohawk, thus supported by floating crutches, was towed down the river to Shewan’s dry dock at the foot of East Houston street, Man- hattan, ‘The effort to get the Mohawk off the; ing the accident. “A dredge en- shoal at high tide this morning at 3.30) $t6ed In blasting on Flood Rock was O'clock Wan a failure, because the ship |Huvad and It wus necessary to make a wide turn to go down Into Hell Gate, was so firmly fixed on a jagged pinnacte A strony ebb tide Was running and of the shoal that to pull her away would While we were trying to make the turn, ‘have torn her all to pieces, Other ef- It took us out of the course. The Mo- hawk struck ona submerged rock and forts were unavailing, ‘The un-, Was held fast, T ordered the pimps to loading of her bunker coal began at 10 o'clock in the morning. work immediately,” Has Rendered Good Service. Caused Another It is belleved the barge came into The Mohawk was laune ched at tichs collision with a dredge or one of the She cost 1g to the wrecking boats surrounding the revenue cutter, was clear of the also Sinking. ith the © erulsing Bedford, Mass,, ater. One «her from Ne i Breaky ervices Was The Merritt-Chapman Wrecking Com- ervices ay ¥ after = tea reitingce iG a yy unt and t's plowing up of a pany and the officers of the Mohawk oft Barnexat had pd to get her off the rocks at high ships ¢ long time, tide at 2.99 o'clock this morning, But Similarly. she iestroved off | Montaulk ; vag the. Buenaventura—a Spanish tramp they didn't, It was found that she was the, | Buena nit es rantured te piked hard and fast, and that to draw| Americans in the war with Spaln. ‘The her off forcibly would rip a great rent) Mohawk ran aground oF Palmer's Is|- in her hull. and, In New Bedford Harbor, on Jan. : %3, while going to the assistance of th A large Hghter was brought along: ee ee eet ee patie but wae side the Mohawk at 10.30 o'clock and the unloading of the extra supply of coal In her bunkers was begun. It was hoped that, thus Hgltened, the cutter can be floated off the Hog Bag at high tide this afternoon. The Mohawk carries seventy officers and men, who are still on board of her, Dense fog interfered with the progress of the work of the tugs, and as the tide began to fall it was announced tnat the vessel could not be floated unt! high tlde again late this afvernoon, Captain and Crew Stick to Her. A searchlight from the fireboat George | denly began to | B, McClellan played on the wreck | Before Capt pulled inte deep water withcur damage, So CAPTAIN AND WIFE TRAPPED IN CABIN AS BARGE IS SUNK Frank Nelson, captain of the big barge Susan Clark, and his young wite were asleep in their cabin this morn- Ing at 6 o'clock when the “lark, In tow of the tug Norwalk, of ‘he Red Star Line, swept through Hel) Gate and sud- Kk. Nelson and his wife intervals throughout the night, could scramble from their cabin the The New Haven tugs and floats| Water had risen over them. They man- aged to get to the door 1 Nelson which had gone to the Mohawk's as- sistance as struck and which alded In the effort to pull her off this morning, a8 well as a light- house tender which came to the scene to the de Clark fill that {t was Jrag down three other 3 fast. Capt helped to dragged his wife So fast did th feared she would barges to which she w Nelson and Mrs. Nelson vy soon as she during the night, are all about her ns Bek a Had not Capt Landrey, of the Mo- {he PA heole vad A pe sent wireless messages to Wash- | hawsers fore an’ al wer Ms hawk, sent wire ge sn sit was then lashed to the tug and ington and to the Navy Yard, refusing more aid, there would be a score of his disposal dragged ashore. Just what caused the sinking of the vessels at | : Susan Clark is a mystery, The The Mohawk left New London yester- a et ick Me ee Arg pie day after fliling her bunkers with coas | Walk ane her 4 Aids This load caused her to draw ne Point, Conn., yesterday bound for New fourteen feet of water, She Is a stee. | York. All the barges were light boat of 0 tons’ ong, and the pride acement, 26 feet)” 7 Norwalk had en- e captain of the f the cutter ser- ; h €F tered Hell Gate and was passing t MOP rea OE Ligne sible eal | euaken 1 U revenue cutter Mohaw en days searching for de- | When the Susan Clark, wilch was In ved to ona the centre of the tow, s¥ ide. ts and Was bound for her home r It Is believed that the Clark smashed n, off Tompkinaville, 8. nere 1s usually about fourteen feet | simatic, overmihe Submerged. reet [against a United States dredger, and known as Little Hog Back at low water, had her s! de caved in She began sink+ We had slowed down to about ten|ing within fifty feet of the Mohawks and a half knots aprroaching Hell and settled to the bottom twenty J! {wet Gate,” Caps. Landrey said in deserib- furtuer on,