The evening world. Newspaper, December 12, 1910, Page 2

aye priest to take his last confession and | for @ pollosman to hear a story. Didn't Heed the hein ed . Sergt. Kelly, who understand was brought to the dying aoe nd nd to him Tollizgano said: “Branda was the man who shot me. He knew I kept my savings and he and fome others plotted to take them from me. A month ago I got a letter signed with the Black Hand telling me to have 41,000 ready at a certain time and a cer- tain place as I made my rounds with the milk. I paid no attention. Then I got another letter, Still I went about | my business. “Barly one morning I went Into the house to teave some milk. A figure | came out of the darkness. It was my friend Branda. He had a pistol in his hand and he said to me, ‘Salvatore, are | you prepared to hand over the thousand | dollars that you were to have this morning for our societ “Then instantly 1 recalled that this was the date and here was the «pot named for the transfer of the blackmal money. 1 was not afraid of Branda, al- though I feared the Black Hand jumped at him, grabbed him around the neck And tried to pinion his hands to his side. He twisted his right arm fre and, throwing it over my shoulders shot me in the back unt!) I grew weak and fell. Then he ran awa Why He Kept Silent. | } “My brother came to me then and} Degged me not to tell the truth about it OF @lee the Black Hand would itll! doth of us. So I kept silent. Put now i know I am nearly gone—that they annot hatm me further—and 1 want | to see Branda and the others punished voice had been sinkin to & whisper and just as he reached the end of his confession it Kave out alto: gether. He managed to sign his ante wortem statement and then he sank | into @ coma. He died while the charge against Branda was being changed from | agsault to murder | STANDARDOIL LOSES AND MUST PAY $201,000 FINE Highest Court Against Trust in New York Case, Alleking | Violation of Elkins Act, | WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.—The Stand __ MRS, GLOVER SEEN “NEARSPOT WHERE. HUSBAND WAS SOT Woman Cock. Bi Employed by Judge Hearing Trial Gives Sensational Testimony. STANDS AS EVIDENCE. | Court Allows Testimony Link- ing Wife of Slain Man With the Crime. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Deo, 12.-When the third week of the trial of Hattle I | Blanc, who ts charged with the murder | of Clarence F. Glover of Waltham, opened in the Middlesex County Supe- rior Criminal Court at Rast Cambridge vday, it Was generally expected that efore the week ended the little Freneh- 1 girl would know whether she yuld again enjoy freed ible in some der ) or be held e for the death f the laundryma Lawyer Johnson, for Hattie Le Blanc, ing # sensation at the start of to- Jay's session by calling Ni Walsh of Waltham to the stand Miss Walsh testifed that at the present time she is emplo¥ed as cook in the family of Judge Bond, the Jus- tice who is presiding at the trial, t Sho lives in a house on Park L Waltham, ned by the Glovers, She Said that five years ago she was em. ployed in Glover's laundry and that she knew Mra. € rovery well. She wee tioned regarding her movements on the night of Nov. @ 100%, the night that Uover was shot. Describes the Woman. “Who did you see on Moody night asked Mr. Johnson, 1 saw Mrs. Glover,” replied Miss sh, Who then went on describing w Mra, Glove was dressed, Mrs. over, the witness said, wore a dark t and dark clothing, a long dark coat nd cared a muff. The witness said that she positively recognized Mrs, and street Glover as she passed her tn front of a | picture store where the brilliant I- lumination in the window lighted up the street. Mrs. Glover was walking away from the laundry, she sald. Cr examined by Mr. Higgins, Miss ard Ol Company of New York must pay | the $20,000 fine imposed upon it by the District Court for the Western district of New York for the acceptance of al- leged concessions in the transportation | of petroleum; as the result of the refu- sal to-day of the Supreme Court of the United States to review the case, The alleged concessions occurred in the transportation of oil from Olean, n.| ¥., to Rutland, Vt. It was alleged the ol! company paid less than the lawful freight rate. The action was brough: under the Elkins act. SS ed PRIEST DIES SUDDENLY, t Nutley, N. J, y Five on Francis A. Foy, Roman Cathol astor o! ureh J, died suddenly in night minutes he complained of al severe pain in the hea asked that | Dr. Whelan of ‘Nut! and Father | Smith of Belleville be summoned. He Was dead before elther arrive! Father Foy was prominent in charit- | being president of the | Children’s Ald Society of Yew Jersey. | Me had been president of the National) Children's Aid Society and secretar to the Prison Aid Society of New Jersey He was born in Mount Hoily, J Afty-two years ago, and was a practic is-| ing attorney before his ordination to the | priesthood twelve years ago | ia dil“ aida oad | , ALDERMAN IS INDICTED. Velkman and Cruise Jointly Ac- cused in Bribery Case, Akerman Michael J. Volkan and Edward Cruise, son of former Volice! Capt. Willlam Cruise, were indicted to- day on a charge of felon The indictment grows out of the arrest of young Cruise last week on a charge of taking a bribe of $20) from David Ba-| qishe, @ crippled news dealer who has a) news stand at Third avenue and Eighty-| fourth street. Barishe had beon having trouble renewing his license until it was | suggested to him that he “come across,” Both men are out on ball and after) ure their examination in the Harlem © to-morrow they will be arrested on be warrants and brought be Crain in General Sessions. under the indictment may be ° notmore than $,00 or !mprisonment for nat more than ten years. ———— | Swift & Company's sales of fresh beof in New York Oity' for the week ending Sajurtay, Des, 10 averaged B.44 cents per yound, *, XMAS Suggestions. No. 4. Is your house as cheerful as !t might be? If not, the best time in all the year to brighten it up is on Christmas bay ‘This you can do by presenting some member of the famt!y with ry 0, phonograph oF & Lowse Soka pet of one d or another, You will save money and a wh lot of tramping around it you musical instruments, cats, « &c., through MORNING OR SUNDAY WORLD ADVERTISEMENTS | the defense, that she had married } ing, Walsh said she had not seen Mrs, Glov- er for four years until the night of the murder, and she had never spoken to Mrs. Glover, although she had seen her @ number of times while the witness worked at the laundry, She sald that she did not connect Mrs, Glover with the murder further than to think of the fact when she read of the death of Glover that she had seen his widow | Just befor She had never spoken of the matter, she said, until she told a nurse at Judge Bond's house about three weeks ago, She never saw Mr. Johnson until this morning, She had read of Hattle's arrest, but did not understand the meaning of the hearing in the lower court, nor did she understand that Hat- tle had been indicted, ‘Mrs. Glover Denies. Mrs. Lillian M. Glover then resumed her direct testimony in rebuttal. Dis+ trict-Attorney Higgins asked her how uch money she had when Glover pouxht the laundry, but Mr. Johnson objected on the ground that it was not | material, and the jury was excused while the point was argued, ‘The Dis- trict-Attorney said that he desired to defend the assertions of counsel of the defense that Mrs. Glover had killed her husband in order to get back property belonging to herself which had passed into Glover's control. During the argument Mr. Higgins said that he had been placed in the difficult position of trying to defend Mrs, Glover, He called attention to the fact that witnesses for the defense had pstified that Mrs, Gloveer had told them that Glover control) her prop- erty and that she intended to get it back, “I want to show,” continued (he Disiriet-Attorney, “that Mrs, Glover did not KML her husband, that she did not need to and that she had the prop- erty already.” The court, however, sustained Mr. Johnson's objectt was excluded, W he jury brought back Mrs. Glover denied tell- | ing Mrs, Rice, one of the witness er in order to get the control of her own property, She also denied the statement of a similar character made ‘my Mr, Gardner, another witness of the defense. Testimony Stands. Mrs, Glover denied that she wont to the laundry on the night of the shoot- whe dented that she came ont of the alleyway leading from the laundry, nd she denied unqualifiedly so far as ° was concerned the testimony given by witnesses for the defense about a woman who came from ‘the alley: boarded a car, got off at ‘al street, met a man on Waltham common, hid a fen afterward received man at the home. Do you know Miss Walsh?” asked District-A ttorney who added to n: “Who is now working for ot," Mrs, Glover replied District-Attorney Higgins asked that | the Court order exclude all testimony relet > the threats allesed to rave made by Mra st ner nd because, alleged i not inerlen er \ «y Jajnson was upon fis feet " and declared that if the ‘ 4 exclude the threats from the ¢ ation of the Jury he w amis to have the evidence «gainst Ha ex d, saying that {ft dence against Mrs threats there was not e unst Hattle Lae Blane, f. Dumas, a bdollermaker, Ath ho {9 at present employed tr Orange, Mass, testified that at the ume f the 1 he was working in Wa an. On the night of the m was a awre al lound {a Dumas 19 ¢ At AN ONE DAY rane PERE SiG RA ON oe, “s vefund money if it fails to cure, GROVE'S egnature ty cu cach bos. 838, THE EVENING WURKLD, CN Mr. mu NUDAY v Patrick Hogan Went fo the Ball And There Were Doings All the Time HOGAN GETS wee | | \ | KIDNAPPED BOY TELL GRAND JU HOW BAND WOR Young Rizzo and Longo Give Testimony That May Lead to Indictments. The Grand Jury of Kings County, took up to-day consideration of the cases of the elght men and two women who are held under $10,000 ball each on the charge of kidnapping Michael Rizao and Giuseppe Longo and holding them for ransom in @ Manhattan tenement. The Longo boy, the Rizzo boy, their parents and other witnesses were heard, and it {8 eWpected that indictments will be handed down without delay, The Grand Jury proceedings fonowed the arraignment of the prisoners in the Fifth Avenue Police Court, This court 1s on the easterly border of a district in Brooklyn that 1s populated almost exclusively by Italians, and hordes of them flocked to the courthouse and vi- cinity an hour before the case was called. The court room was packed, the halls and stairways were jammed and the crowd overflowed into Fifth avenue and side streets, Groups of Itallans shivered and stamped their feet in doorways and other sheltered spots for blocks around Five lawyers represented the prison- ers, who ar@ held in $10,000 bail each. Assistant District-Attorney Michael May appeared for the prosecution and asked for an adjournment. Fight Over Delay. He explained to the Court that the Kidnapping industry, which the prison- ers are suspected of managing, had many ramifications, few of which the detectives have been able to follow any distance. New developments were cropping out hourly, Mr. May sald, and he asked for a Mttle more time tn which to arrange the evidence, The five lawyers for the defense ob- Jected in chorus, One of them with a louder voice than the others the attention of Magistrate Tighe to the fact that the case had been adjourned on Saturday, ‘The Magistrate sald that Saturday's adjournment was to enadde the prisoners to retain counsel and he did not think the request for further delay unreasonable. Ho granted an ad- Journment until Wednesday morning at 9 o'clock. Mob Blocks Traffic, When the adjournment was announced the crowd in the courtroom and corr!- dors surged out into the street and con- grogated in front of the Courthouse. Hundreds who had peen standing at @ distance swarmed up and in a few minutes traMec in Fifth avenue was blocked, The crowd completely surrounded the “Black Maria which watted to take the prisoners to Pollce Headquarters. While there were no hostile demon- strations the detectives in change of the prisoners decided to take no chances and called for help. ‘The reserves trom the Fifth avenue station were ordered out. They dispersed the swarming crut osity seekers and opened a way for the wagon, alongside which detectives | walked until ft was out of the gone of excitement Complains of “Third Degree.” After the court proceedings Charles W. Gould of No. 6 Beekman street, a wyer representing the interests | of ebastiano Glambrone, who was are | rested in the room with the Longo boy in the Hast Sixty-third street tenemea: veadquarters of the kidnappers, votcad mplaint against the police, He de red that Giambrons was beaten and pdlackjacked $n Brooktys Headquarters in an effort to make him conte band of Ma pa, t had charge of the Long was a captive and has | fed by young Tlzz0 as his custodian The detectives in charge of the |leged kidnappers grimly admitted that that h READY FOR TE, att at wm COURT. they had been a Uttle rough with Giam- drone. They say he offers physical re- sistance to every move he is requested to make and it is necessary to drag him around by main force. The Italian Civic League will hold a meeting next Wednesday afternoon at the Civic Club to discuss means to put an end to the Black Hand extortion in this city and vicinity. Immigration Commissioner Williams, United States District-Attorney — Wi District-At- torney Whitman and Deputy Police| |Commisstoner Flynn have been invited to attend. WIGWAM'S RECORDS SAVED IN FIRE AT TAMMANY HALL (Continued from First Pi telephone message was sent to Charles F. Murphy, leader of Tamany. He said: I'll be around as soon I can get my breakfast. Get Secretary Tom Smith and Philip Donohue, treasurer of the society. Get them at once, Fifteen minutes later Smith and Don- ohue came to the police lines. Neither had a fire badge, and they were being turned back by the police when Fire Commissioner Rhinelander Waldo came up. He ushered them into the lines and they at once took charge of the records. When the fire was under control Smith expressed the opinion that the damage was not as heavy as estimated by Chief Croker. “Of course I can't tell,” sald the Sec- retary, “but my candid opinion is that it will not be more than $15,000 or $20, 000, All my records are safe. Of that Yam sure. I have seen the police who are watching them. May Movo Hall Uptown, “The last fire we had here was eleven years ago. Of late there has been a good deal of talk about moving Tam- many Hall further uptown, This fire may bring the matter to a head. Of course I am only speculating. That will remain with the men who manage the affairs of the soclety. “While I have not seen Mr. Murphy or other members of the executive committee, I think I can say safely that the hall will be repaired without delay and that it will be in shape In the next two months. ‘Phe temporary headquarters of Tai many pending repairs to the building will be at No. 1 West Thirty-fourth treet, the present headquarters of the Democratic State Committee. Tammany Hall is not impressive archi- tecturally. It had been sald of it that it resembled nothing else yet discovered. It is of red pressed brick with window trimmings of Mght stone and a cornice apparently modelled for some other structure, The brick work was pencilled in black, there are three rows gf win dows and the cornice was mounted with @ curiously shaped galvanized tron hut that shelters an Indian brave tn full feather. Above the Indian Were the letters Tamman Society,” a foot high and as shiny as gold leaf could make the: On either land were figures of the same character, ‘1798 and ‘1887. The old Tony Pastor Theatre was tn the me building. Half a dozen granite | steps led to the entrance of the bulld- ng, flanked by two single burner lamps. | Two storm doors were of green, lined out with narrow streaks of gold. Features of the Building. In many respects the reception room was the most interesting in the Tam- many building. It ts large, with a very high ceiling, and was separated by alid- ing walnut doors from the private office of the Grand Sachem, or Boss.” There is a tablet in the wall readin Tammany Society or Columbian Order led by William Mooney tn 11 a constitution and laws in 1739 SOMETHING meetings of the order and for balis aud ther public entertainments, is on the third floor and occupies the full depth | and width, less the stairways, Most of | the damage was in this room. | The first Wigwam of Tammany was In Harden's City Hotel on Broadway, second in a Broad street drinking place, and the third, which was used until the first mmary Hall was erected, in “Martiing’s Long Room." Tammany put up a hall of its own in| ISI1, a three-story brick building, on the southeast corner of Nassau and Prank- fort streets. It had the biggest ball- room in the city. The building was en- larged and improved and served the or- ganization until 1868, when the present building in Fourteenth street’ was oc- cupled. The cornerstone was laid on July 4, 1867, The old building is now used by the eee el WALL STREET Stocks were susceptible to selling pressure that was in progress during the first hour this morning, and the list Was brought down about 1 point be- low last week's closing range, All issues ytelded alike to liquidation with- out pronounced weaknesg in any one stock. Selling of stocks followed a discov- ery that an expected Monday morning buying movement didn’t materialize, and the market's course was decidedly downward until after the first hour, when prices made a feeble rally. The Closing Price: ‘The highest, lowest and last prices of stocks and of net changes as compared with Saturday's final figures are as follows Amal. Am. Am, Mining: | 5 F « Ohio, PEEPS TIL ++ SP Sa Pal {I Ray 10t° = 1% South: Ry pe | ion Bac 1 Tah | Copper S CaO % Wabasl « i ’ 1 1 hs *FeDividend. 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He declined to go with Brown until Brown assured him that his ancestry was pure Celtic. On hearing this pleas- ing information Mr. Hogan linked arms with him and accompanied him to the HOGAN OF CAVAN WAS AT THE BALL, house with the green lights on West Forty-seventh street, only in- terrupting his flow of song once to to ’ remark that it was a stormy night to His Dress Suit Obfuscated and] be at sea, because even on iand. the sidewalks heaved and tossed, and once His Biled Shirt Loses Its Pale, Snowy Gloss. HE WINDS UP IN COURT. again to ask whether the red orb in the east was the aun coming up or the moon going down. "a be knowin’ for myself,” “only I'm a stranger here. While awaiting his turn In the West Side Court Mr. Hogan amused his fe low inmates of the pen with the popu- lar selection entitled “Ireland Was Nation When England was a 1 Which is to say, he amused all of them except an Englishman named Dunstan. Mr, Dunstan found fault with Mr. Ho- gan's choice of a song. And shortly thereafterward Mr, Dunstan also found he added, There He Sin; Draws a Ditty That Englishman’s Fury, and Hogan Wins, an himself standing on the back of his own neck. Patrick fowan, thirty yeare old, red It ./as a Great Time. ined And ubatahdlie, catia Over 'thies| Oe, erteze, Bret My eens oft ; side le °°! of Mr. Dunstan and took Mr, Hogan jonths ago from Bailieborough, Coun- — Matthew ty Cavan, to go into the liquor Susiness | before Magistrat a Magistrate Breen Mr. Hogan told all town Ste Thetet wboraclly at the u-Tenat ne gecalled of the events transpir- Ballebo: " ce “€ ling since Saturday evening. alleboroughe had their annual ball) «1 take it you tad a fine time?” said | Mr. Hogan decided to do the easel must've, judgin’ from the way I honor, Ha put on hie dregs dultmces | Oe Now: sald Mr Cogan | : ‘ —cer | stagistrate Breen discharged Mr. Ho- Gir (eRe ee gan. He also discharged Mr. Dunstan. | with the conventional open-face vest, the marble-topped shirt, the splie-fence collar and the high hat. He also shoved into his hip pockets two large bottles of prime old vatted Irish whis- gan out of court by different exits. ——-_—_—. Old Telegrapher Dead. HARTFORD, Dec, 12.—Sidney Brook key he'd brought along with him when! curtis, for forty years cashier of the | he came over. Hartford office of the Western Union a Fine Ball, It was a fine ball. So It Was! Mr. Hogan re- Telegraph Company, and, by reason of his fifty-odd years of continuous service membered that all right. He also re-|for the company, the oldest telegraph | membered that he extended an invita-}employee in New England, died of | tion to every good Irishman in New. pleuro-pneumonia at his home or York to come up and have a drink| day. He was In his seventy-first year. | with him? But after that Mr. Hogan A son, Dr. Robert W. 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