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" \ UNCLE SAM IS AFTER OCEAN LINER TRUST — _PRIOE ONE CENT. ROBIN IN THE TOMBS; ALLIS MONEY GONE, | SAYS JEROME IN COURT oo Bank Wrecker’s Bail Fixed at $40,- 000 After Counsel Declares That Even His Strong Box Had Been Emptied of Securities. RIDES IN PATROL WAGON THOUGH AUTO WAITED Manet te 1911, |CONSPIRACY CHARGED. Case of Russian Line, Which Later Joined Pool, Is | Cit After Entering Plea of Not Guilty He Is Sent to a Cell and Later Taken to the District- Attorn2y’s Office for an Examina- tion by Alienists. ‘ Circulation Books Open to All.’ . (The New Toru World). ihe Press Publishing NEW YORK, “WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, “\Indicted Bank Wrecker as He Looked Facing Theft Charge in Court To-Day ~ MOULD BAR PORTS | IN SUIT TO BUST ~ STEAMSHIP TRUST Action Begun in United States Court Against Eleven Trans- | atlantic Lines. ed. As the sult of an inquiry which he has been icting for a year o nore, Henry A. Wise. Un ates Distr Attor y. filed what is known In United | States Court practice as a ‘libel! against all the big transatlant) |ship lines in the “Atiantic Conference’ for combining In a monopoly of steer- age or Immigrant tramMc, ‘The petition asks the United States ireuit Court for an Injunction forbid- ding the steamship iines involved from entering or clearing {rom any American pert while the pool continues, on the fround that ft is a combination in re- straint of trade in violation of the Sherman Antl-Trust law, The petition charges that the agree OBIN Cov Rr KI HIS FIRST WESSEE Joseph G, Robin pleaded not guilty to-day in the Court. of General Sessions to an indictment charging him with stealing $80,000 from the ‘ashington Savings Bank. Tombs and bail was fixed at $40,000, which he will doubtless be able to furnish unless a | report from experts in the employ of the District-Attorney pr m insane should result in his incarceration in an asylum. Robin was examined at length this afternoon in the District-Attoney’s office by the District-Attorney’s experts, Dr. Alan McLane Hamilton and Dr. Smith Ely Jelliffe. They did not report at once, and Robin was returned to his cell in the Tom's. In the meantime his arranging to furnish bail. The activity of t h bail was considered remarkab| ight of Mr. mat He was committed to the e) friends had been MEN MISSING, mares iWwll the Jerome's assert corporation to another corporation. of this afternoon K jn's aged confidential secre Before Kk. Mor: was | M Mr ris went into the Grand Jury room 3 Jerome said to him ‘Remember now, you saw with your own eyes and just one of the witnesses Excelsior F; ‘actory, and They Probably Escaped. you tell just un what you heard with your own ears and nothing mor Although Mr. Jerome, acting for Dr. ise Robinovitch, began proceedings ¢ Supreme Court yesterday directed ; Morris Dickey and another man whose toward having Rovin deciared insane,the |"4me has not n learned were miss- indicted banker was siniling and chipper | !* after a fire this afternon in Harris to-day. He showed no signs of the Sussman's upholstery factory at No, poison he sald he took on his way to ‘econd avenue Forty other em- the Criminal Courts Bullding last Fri- | Ployees flod to t day. When the fire was brought under con- Robin was notifled early to-day by ‘Fol @ tho search of the gutted Dr. Bishop, in charge of the Bellevue! 9 !ding was ma, it no trace of the prison ward, that he was to be ar- nlasing fe i be found, raigned to-day, He expressed pleasure | Worked on 1 Noor and tt at getting out of the hospital and ap- | lieved ‘es ely eseapo across he roofs. peared to be eager to face the court. When the time came for him to leave the hospital he put on @ long automo- bile coat and a fur cap, which had been The fire gained such headway goon as Chief Lawler arrived ho a secon al. ahd Inspe: Huse: ef h b his sister, who took comima: nes with left for ae nee hie Wkeaea Capt. Walsh and th Sof the v . One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Detectives Fogarty, ‘Mhomas, Flood station, sent a #4 t and Rayens had arrived and had sum- moned a patrol wagon from the Hast Phirty-ffth street station, They were | the tene and rou rund ed hood women and ech several viking preparations to take charge) Mr, Sussman ran through the bulld- ut Robin when Dr. Robinoviten ar-| ims wa his employees, who are tived in her brother's automobile. She @!! men, they uoramibled dow n the 4 n | fire escapes to the sir The smoke was accompanied by @ busy young Dre enelll brie smoke who #aid his name was Lewis. ‘ou don't need that patrol wagon,” | Lewis to the polioemnen in re . Robin js going down to the © amine Courts Bullding in his car, I am from the Dis- inict-Attorney's office.” top floor, and he shouted a warning 4 he made for the varest fre escape, tends back fifty feet avenue and is separated from East One Hundred and Twenty A narrow alley, which at the top floor, wiere 14S an annex, Detective Flood, who is attached to the , ot the building District-Attorney's office, promptly 8414 greg and ‘wen nd that Mr. Lewis had no connection wits | pied by t the District-Attorney's office. The por ‘The sinok {nto the str the nar the inach horses No. licemen insisted that Robin should ride iu the patrol wagon, and they had their) way. Mr. Lewis, it was ascertained | later, 19 one of Mr. Jerome's assistants, to Hook and 40 slipped as they turned Ladder When Robin climbed into the patro! wagon in the hospital yard his sister , —————— 4. (Comuaued on Mecond Page.) ty-fifth street and broke the bi Ws way on f00% nouncing Grand Jury Again at Work. | The Grand Jury took up conside Jor additional cha against Robin | | No Trace of Bodies in Burned} into Second avenue at One Hundred and | ‘The firemen went the rest of the ment entered into by the companies ti URGES GREAT ECONOMY TU AVOID DIRECT TAKES e+e the pool is to stifle competition and raise prices by unfair methods e an Volunteer fleet started a ‘ lilve Ine in March, 1908, piyin etween Libau and New York, advertis « for business, giving rates of paxsaxe | 11 advantages, throu It is charged that t A committee designate immediately put what wo “a flghting steamship” on in| » advertising in the same 1 to by the in s much lower rates and | and AdvocateS Abolishment of Unnecessary Com- Ae iycemenss ta otter ine ao! missions and Speaks Out for Direct Primaries, Pieet had to give up and abandon the! Income Tax, Popular Election of Senators. sidp Company lasted until s Sern go a 1908, and then It went | the pool, it (Special to the ening World.) is alleged Yv ; + Sf AD an. 4.—Gov. D ent a s business-like s A similar experiences: ALBANY, aan 6 30V. t ix ool simple, bu: lngslke message The Uranlum sSteamsiip Company,| 0 the Legislature to- It was a document ef not much more than known as the Northw ransport line, | 5,000 words, of which the keynote was economy, The message had all ed n New York and Rotter-| the direct, concentrated force of a telegraphic night letter. dam, bad a similar experience, but] nanaged to Weather the storm and ts] tll running The sult is againnt the Atlan®@o companios nnd its :uemors, includ - ing the Cunard, White Star, Red Star, Anchor, Hamburg-American, Worth German Lloyd, Molla: foan, Russi Dominion and Allan lines; In his recommendations for legislation the Governor adhered closely to the principles of the Democratic platform and of his speech. of ac- ceptance. He repeated the figures he quoted in his inaugural address of Monday, showing that the State laces a deticit of $1 turn to direct taxation. The Governor also advocated: A Constitutional amendment providing for direct primaries and to compel personal registration throughout the State. of a resolution in favor of the proposed Constitutional imposition of an income tax, jolution calling upom Congress for the general post system. ‘The passage of a resolution calling upon Congre: various 8 Constitutional amendment providing for the election of United States Senators directly by the people, ‘The abolition of the State Water Supply Commission, the Advisory the Canadian Pacific Railway and the British North Atlantic Steamship Company. A number of officials of these com- to submit to the |pantes are also named as defendants, | including Emi! L. Boas, Gustay H. Schwab and Bryce J, Allan and Philip A. 8, Franklin and John Lee, who Ns Board of Consulting Engineers on Canal Improvement, the State Fair are described as the Vice-presidents of Commission, the State Highways Commission and the State ard rat nal Mercantile Marine of; pegole, the Internat ny for npansy ning the pr A Among the polnts In the agree the Atlantle Companies is mentioned the ing by each company of a note for| ‘The Governor declared that his rece £1,000 to meet penalties for fatlure to| ommendations w onwid: stand by any of the provisions of the| ered as a chart of which {* the holding com-| the’ International Navigation sald to be managing or runs ‘uhe consolidation of the Fish, Forest and G: State Water Bupply Comm Commission and the jon to the end that the werk of couser tion of the State forests may proc.ed Land in hand with the develop of the enormous water supply for manufacturing purpo: The evtablishment of @ bureau fo- the purchase of supplies in all Stato departments. rt nt of not to truct ns to be FIVE MEET DEATH, EIGHT any Independent agent, and the like, | tions, to be delibera vyana, MISSING IN TRAIN WRECK, The p n asks adopted or rejected by the slature —— Asks Injunction. “on its own responsibi 1 CO- That the aforesaid unlawful con. | OFdina e and independent departimer ¢ spiracy aad combination and contract the Sta entered into and cont nued by the de- On the su fendants declare’ iegal, and that Governor an injunction issue restraining and ad inereas: biting defendifite and eact the nd all thelr off empl attorne gents from doing any act in pursuance reof by tht manner herein desoribed, o desist and withdraw and securities lished to pay State ns th and be required from all connection with the same, and, ‘Y the. Gove that they and each of them be required | From 183 to 18 and compelled to cancel and abate said annual expend: act: tha dant ture increase at s he onjoined, restrained the rate § , c and forbldden rither to enter or clear Bru ‘ . = any of thelr ships or vessels at the port Ff 4 of New York, Mt any other port ¢ ty within nited States ee apite A or any port ts ponKession: an it shall coptinie to operat y a : OSBORNE ACCEPTS OFFICE suant to of Coroperate with any of AAUA): ex rer the other defendants under the afore- € Iner OF FOREST BOARD CHIEF, aid unlawful combination and con the ra « pace ih es , It will be notice A a ALBANY, Jau. —Thomas M. Os | LETT AGERE: nual expenditures in borne of Auburn informed Gey, Dix World Bullding ‘urkish Baths the years 106 and 1907 o-day that he would ‘accept the ap. | polntment as Btato Pores, Fish 3 Game Commissioner, gas anon (Continued oa Yourta {HERE WAS A GOOD JOB. ‘not 1911. BLACK EYES DUE MAN FOR CALL ON ANOTHER’S WIFE 18 | ' Court Finds It Is Husband's Right to Decorate Visitor He Obje c ts To. ‘Bri ges Doesn't Live | With His Spouse, but He Does Cen- | sor Her Compan; on not call even thous! ried man must man's wit ald wife ix not Hving with her husband. If he does and the woman's husband | hands him a brace of “shiners” he need to Magistrate 0" for ‘onnor vengeance, So Everett M. Clark, a clerk tn the ‘arlem Branct: of the Mutual Alliance Weather—Fatr, colder to: ght; Thareday ensettied, E palace PAGES PRICE ON GALLAGHER GUILTY: QUICKLY SENTENCED FOR A 12-YEAR TERM — ne Attorneys for the Assailant of Mayor Gaynor Put in No Evi- dence and Trial Ends in Re- markably Short Time. JURY IS ONLY 40 MINUTES, IN REACHING A VERDICT Prisoner Was8 Tried for Shooting Street-Cleaning Trust Company, learned to-day in the Hariam police court where he appearet| Commissioner Edwards, the Assault on Gaynor and presented in evidence as “Exhibit ri A", againet Athro B, Briggs, « waten- Being-Held in Abeyance— Twelve Years maker of No. 109 Weat Sixty-first street, M * s a pair of black eyes which the clerks ximum Sentence. and policemen in the | dipingys aareed Is the a ju were the most gorgeous they had éeen : in years. oT . i FF e; The term “black eyes” 9 used in thin The celerity and certainty of Jersey justice were illustrated again: to- ase only for purposes of classification. - is Etats rey fd F Clark's eyes peered, halt clovad, out of | May in the case of Jame J. Gallagher, the assailant of Mayor Gaynor, ] a feld of purple, with ® penumbra of | who was sentenced this afternoon to serve twelve years in prison by: Jus- | blue and red. A big scar over the right} EE wm, i Y 3 ' eye, with surgeon's thread drawn! tice Swayze in the Court of Qyer and Terminer in Jersey City, | ough oro Ign, heightened PT ' (hesuga ah. 6) Repel gach ee He was convicted in jig time, as it were, of an assault upon’ Street Even the Court Admired. Cleaning Commissioner Edwards. The Gaynor assault charge Briggs did not deny that his 9 the 5 master hand which iad patnted the|OVver him, held in abeyance to be changed to murder should the Mayor color acheme on Clark's face. In fact, | die within a year and a day of the date of the assault. as ho gauged upon it thin adorning he allagher was tried as to ts, enity was rather proud of his workinanship. | ny. before # duty and eed Brigge does not live with his wife, but jt ” eels koa i ae he pays her bills, and therefore claims | on trial on the assault change to-day the right to censor her companions, He and the Jury was eecured’tn ‘avekaal 4 particularly objected to Clark, because, | a half minutes, including tn tke and ts he tofd the Court, Clark ts the rea her i ng member- ' f Je | ship some of the men who sat in jude son why he and his wife do not live to- | lonene fi : pas | ment on the mental condition, 46 tie Hie met them once last summer as BOS HOR: LORSeE AY vf Were stroiling through an unfre- | y Quick Work in Trial, 4 q ented path in Central Park, Then he| The Presecuting Attorney spent four merely spoke to Clark and told hi | | minutes in outlining hls case. The “4 liaust ker y from Mrs. Briggs, prosecution had all its testimon im be- Clark mumbled something that sounded | fore t Paap adjournment. The de- Uke an acquiescence, and Briggs bot ‘en: had no witnesses and rested on ered no more about the matter until A Nicers Find (8%, Dresecution’s case ater recess, Now Year's State and Poilce Officers Find rel for the defense maintained in Then some kind friend volunteered “PIR . short speech that the shooting of Rd- the information that Clar’ was visiting} Barrels of “Ill-Go-Out-and- | waras was an accident. ‘The jury waa Mrs. Brigg# at her boarding house, No. ? out y minutes, returned a tet 108 West Ono Hundred and Eleventh| Buy” in Restaurants. of fyesee and Gallagher was et ence street, It was way after one o'clock ¥ sentenced. when Briggs went around to the —-— In striking contrast to the method emt- to investigate and, if neve | evahe ceault ae an axle yed on the eastern bank of the Mud- monstrate xome more. ; ae ray : a c son River, the sifting out of the jury js woe tod n Spr at the opening of the morning session They Were Saying Good Night, ven restaucants Ww took less time ‘than tt take te ame He found his wife and Clark tn the!) ay os BAe Mners they dor cop Ww | 4 court sometimes in New York. hallway taking a fond and lngering wil There was no tedious examination of Farewell from O56 ghobher Aire. Bilas on ky 1 7 ; 7 t the taxpayers Whose names were drawn BER(DRGH DEG TAOS RAT HTL AP EER a ee one of red and white: Wines in turn from the jury wheel. * got busy with the artintic creation of | €#llo Alexandér Slmpaon,: chiad ait rts Clark's Exhibit Ao Mere. Eldridge, with | found and selned siahee.. is arene whom Mes: Briggs tves, averred that Ss Beetichi ae Gc as he ee he couple had a the even.ng pla Attorney Stoll uf Es m ferdhy's \uhane | . ' 7 vat di yesterday's lunacy proceedings, Pre- | Shapaal i ae any a : t- siding Justice Swayze After a brief con- eee OB Pit . sultation with his assoclates—Judge | AG VOUURBeTeD) (tie | Oe ie rai ita n, Blair and Carey-overruled this motlop, | fnturmation as a man of a| with hh ge A c'olook, gehen ban Sine ne am) a - ; one ; | ‘ Ma " M 1 was two its occupants were - Ww id y 4 +o pen mE . ih cs : 1 longed to yest yo 4 : 1 ; It had taken exactly eleven ond wha 4 os wot ana. ene e a ho ands the 4 f minutes to secure twelve accept- more. ‘ ner | ft veral Is of Prosecutor Opens Case. ! 1 sta n Me. Vickars’s opening was in line with fe fol K arre © burry-up keynote of the whole pro- >. B " ; sn sling. He rehearsed briefly the events 4 ae! . ‘ere “Mr. Vickars took up exactly four mine | room 7 M ry utes aking this statement. Then | ysecutor Gaven began offertng his M" GRATH OUT ON BAIL. M : nowy. ‘The average time for . 1) Monroe Uness at the outset was less than a 4 | i tra h da f The Arst man, Her- ce Athlete Who Shot Walker nt | k . a North German, Llerd lime In Kelensed, py ' hman, testified that he told Judge Dike was furnished Ist Beventeenth 4 wards of No, 382 Douglas street, Mi W awaiting the action of the Grath Grand Jury. rin anewer to @ question that Mayor en came Auguet EB. Dedgner and Bohne, two other dock ems had heard Gallagher tn- Mayor Gaynor night be r had noticed anytiting ut the man 1. Barrett, : ed by Gallagher to point out i the Mayor, did not answer when his the = 1 {name was called, So Mr, Garven ine is afternoon by Sena- | troduced Willian H, Edwards, Street Cleaning C)mmissioner of New York stitution giving wan introduced th tor Negvcom, | x