The evening world. Newspaper, January 14, 1911, Page 1

SENATE FIGHT WARMER; THREAT BY CRAM CHILD SLAYER RUSHED TO SCENE OF CRIME WEATHER—Rain to. Sunday. WRATHER—Ratn to-night ané Sunday. a rFI EoOIrTion = SEVEN MENINRACE FORSENATE SSD, | SS EACHHASACHANEE SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, OENT. YORK, PRICE ONE CENT. a NEW MOTHER WHO KILLED BOY NOME SABE NCOLUPSEONTRAN ace WATCH THE DOME! The moment City Cham- berlain Charles H. Hyde returns to duty at his office The Evening World will notify the taxpayers of New 1911. 1000 ARMED THUGS | MOB A COURT AT -BLAEK HAND TRL —_—__ WATCH THE DOME! SAYS PRENDERGAST Comptroller Prendergast, while addressing a mass meeting last night in Com- monwealth Hall, No. 2005 i | York by raising the munici- ||| Amsterdam avenue, was pal flag on the dome of the ||| asked: ere F: |] Pulitzer Building. “When will Hyde return?” || a Mrs. Erwin and Her Daughter “Watch the dome,’’ replied cata acs, ‘Wounded in Desperate WATCH THE DOME! || t*¢ Comptrotier. Struggle. CAZZAZZAGRAMS FROM HYDE ON STRANDED HOUSEBOAT Edith Melber, Hysterical After Confessing She Murdered Only Child With Acid, Is Taken From Rochester. Hospital and Sent to Albany. | | ;PO) $e--—-—- THE ASSAILANT ESCAPES. LICE CLEAR BUILDING 'Governor Comes Here, Leaves the Case of Brooklyn Girl's Abduc-! Warring Factions in Albany, but. tors Adjourned Because of ‘| Again Refuses to Express a Personal Preference. Makes Off With Booty From Brooklyn House After Battle | new @pectal From « Staff Correspondent of The Evening Work.) (CBANY, Jan. 14.—Mrs. Edith Melber, the slayer of her only child, fs.on her way to Albany. Although ill and hysterical following her con- | Demonstration. ” in Hallway. fi. | When Felie Eaposito, of No. 2120 Dean | \ fession, she was taken from a hospital in Rochester and put on the 11.35 train for this city. After her confession last night she broke down completely and it was feared she to-day. The feeling against the woman here is very strong. The horror of the discovery of the body of five-year-old George Melber, frozen stiff in the swamp on the outskirts of the city with acid marks on the chubby face, is still strong in the community. The authorities may find it neces. sary to smuggie her into prison. ‘The detailed confession of Mrs. Me!- ber, taken in connection with the fact @hat she looked on the ohiki as en @bstacte te her desire to lead a life of Pleasure, adds to.-the horror of the crime, She says ehe did not force the boy to drink the carbolic acid that killed him. He complained of thirst and, trusting her when she told him the polson bottle contained water, he ewallowed the draught. Wanted to Wed Again. The police are convinced that the mo- tive for the crime was a desire to be rid of her child so she could marry | again. They are trying to discover whether any suitor of the woman jiad any knowledge of her act. It was learned to-day that one man who was an intimate friend of Mrs. Melber ieft Schenectady about the same time she did and that his destination was Sa Francisco. The police of Kansas City have been asked to intercept this man and hold him pending the result of the inquiry now belng conducte The police investigation discloses the fact that removal of the boy from the home of his relatives in Schenectady prior to the murder was the culmination of @ long drawn out family quarrel. It is declared that Mrs, Melber was about to marry a plumber, Howard Kirk, who lives at No. 803 Lincoln ave- nue, Schnectady, She told Kirk that the boy was the son of her brother ana that she had a0 children, Charles F. Smith, the woman's brother, to-day declared her desire to marry again was the cause of the crime, “You have heard the old song, ‘Al- waye in the Way.” he remarked. ‘Well, that seems to me to be the ouly rea- son for the crime. She wanted the voy out of the way and she lied to me and my family.” Smith would give no ex- planation of the last statement. Mrs. J. F. Bartlett of Greenwood Boulevard, Schenectaay, by whom the accused Woman was employed, :vld the police that Mrs, Melber had brought the boy to the house on two occasions, but d her he was the son of her Showed Dislike of Child. According to Mrs. Bartlett, Mrs. Mel- ber left the house last Friday after- noon saying she was going to take the bey to Albany, where she was to ar- range for bis adoption by another her. “tbe woman retusned to the Bartlett residence the following night and Kirk called about 8 o'clock and remained until 10, Some time later Mr, Bartlett was locking the doors and found Mrs. ‘Melber seated in cne of the front win- dows. He asked her why she was there and sho replied that she was waiting for Kirk to return, as he had gone out to buy her some medicine. Kirk re- tarned some time after 11 o'clock and remained until avout midnight. ‘Mrs. Bartlett declares that the woman always showed @ strong dislike for the child and that on two occasions, when) she brought him to the house, she haa whipped the boy in an unmerciful man- ner. In addition to her dislike for the child, the interfered with the life she craved, the police say. Mrs, Mover had admirers. On the morning after Kirk was al- feged to have been out after the medicine the telephone bell rang, and (Coptinued on Second Page.) would be unable to make the trip GRP THS SEASON S MORE VIOLENT THA EVER BEFORE Plays Havoc With Husky Men More Than With Women, Docttors Say. | Pneumonia and grip are epidemic in New York and have been for the last three weeks, Judging from the aitua- tion in Bellevue Hospital, which may be taken as a barometer of the general situation throughout the greater city, both diseases are more prevalent than they have been in three years and with no indications that the spread will s00n ceam “The hospital's capacity Is taxed 100 Patients beyond its ordinary accommo- dations."” said Dr. W, H. Smith, chief medical superintendent at Bellevue to an Evening W. for several weeks we have had to put in scores of extra beds and cots, There iy no way of telling when there will be @ let down—not as this kind of weather continues, I should say. “The type of grip cas ceiving 18 more violent as than we have encountered in some time. It seems to exhaust patients completely: and take all their strength—espectally in the cases of ordinarily husky work- ingmen and longshoremen. It simply ploys havoc with those big, strong fel- lowa—more so than with women and children. “The type of pneumonia is also vio- lent, but we have had comparatively few deaths. It is largely a question of the power of resistance of the patient We find that pneumonia goes much harder with elderly persons than |t does with the young.” Dr, G, O'Hanlon, assistant superintendent, who {8 in charge of the statistical department of the hos-| pital, 5: that the census to-day is} 1,188 patients, which is more than 100 over the average According to Dr. O'Hanlon, Believue for three weeks has been receiving on an average thirty to forty cases of grip @ day and five to ten of pneumonia, ‘The situation in the other city hos- pitals—Harlem, Gouverneur and Ford- tics shnilar to that of Bellevue, i | | medical | | ELIZABETH, N. J, Jan. 14—Blijah Lawrence Schanck, who observed his | ninetieth birthday anniversary yester- day, disagreed with superstitious per sons in thelr opinion that Friday, the 18th, j@ an unlucky day, “T was born on Friday, Jan, 18," sald he to-day, “I married on Friday, Jan. | 13, and I'm a happy married man. I've | been lucky all my life and I'm inolined to think that instead of being unlucky |the day is really lucky. See what 1 got from my friends to-day,” said he, —_—_ Ir HAPPY ON FRIDAY, THE 13TH.| A boarding house thief etatihed Mra. Mary Erwin, eixty-fve years old, and Dorothy, her daughter, repeatedly in the arms, thie afternoon in escaping from Mrs, Erwin’s house at No. 162 Ber- gen street, Brooktyn, He got away without his heat and overcoat and covered with marks of his encounter with the women. The man appeared at the house early to-day, took @ room under the name of Desembie and paid for it for a week. He went out at noon. A Mitle later Miss Erwin found thet her diamond ring, a gold watch and $60 In money was missing from he: bureau, ‘There had been no one in the house except the new lodger. ‘The man came back at 2 o'clock and pottered around hie room, closely | watched by the two women until half past four, when he started out. Dorothy Erwin met him in the hall, tm front of the door and charged him with taking her jewelry and money. He growled a denial and tried to push by her. Her mother went to her ald and effectively kept him from reaching the door. i ‘The robber broke away from them and } started down the basement stairs on the run. Miss Erwin caught him, She tripped and the two fell down the stal and Mrs. Erwin fell on top of them, Both women were screaming for help at the top of their lungs. The thief whipped | out a knife and began stabbing them in! the arms, meanwhile biting at thelr faces, Ho at last broke thelr hold and ran out into the street, Dr. Hurwitta of the Long Island Col- lege Hospital, was called to attend the women, (He found that the wounds in their arms were not serious, but that there was danger of blood poisoning in the torn wounds left by the man’s teeth | on their cheeks. Mrs. Erwin and her daughter described the thief as about twenty-two years old, clean shaven and slender. He left be-| hind a gray overcoat brown derby | hat. » police have sent out a general | alarm for him. ———- MAY CALL OUT TROOPS FOR STATE LEGISLATURE. and West Virginia Democrats and Re- -publicans in a Bitter Dead- lock War. CHARLESTON, W. Va., Jan. 4.— With threats of martial law being de-| clared and the calling out of the state | militia, trouble Is threatening serious re- sults in West Virginia's state legislature | in session here. With the Republicans | and Democrats deadlocked in the Senate | Iaght for organization, Republicans re- | fused to go into joint session after hold- Ing @ caucus and they spent the greater | part of Jast night locked ‘behind doors of the assemblyroom of the capitol | Qullding. Democra’ to-day threatened to have! all the Republicans arrested and forced from the Senate. An effort js being made to unseat Senator J. G, Hearne of | Wheeling, Ohio county, and give the rats a majority Glasacock sald would protect the Republicans and call out the militia if arrests were | not made. ———~. | $253,000,000 POSTAL BILL | READY FOR CONGRESS. WASHINGTON, Jan, 14.—The Post-! Office Appropriation bill carrying $263,- 00,000 was com@pleted by the House, Committee on Post-Offices to-day may be reported to the House The amount. « by increase of $10, propriation, and $2,000,000 of St 1 Gov. 0: showing a fancy pipe, which he pro- ceeded to smoke. Then he did a little deficiencies. There is nothing ‘vill . 4 # “Discovered but Not Found,” City Chamberlain | plasse | deciphered: # to second class mat! reform or fancy step just to show how epry be Js, | parc a} post. Doesn’t Tell Why He’s Stopping a While on the Stop-a-W hile or for How Longa While. (Bpectat 2 t0 The Erening World. HOTEL ORMOND, Florida, Jan. 14.— Your correspondent, after several un- successful attempts to get on board Charles Hiram Hyde's houseboat Stop- a-While while it was etopping a while om a mudbank in the Bt. Johns River, near here, succeeded in establishing cassassagraphic communication with the fugacious City Chamberain to-day. Cassassagraphic communication having Deen established, the hidden Mr. Hyd was helpless. The method of establishing communt- cation was simple. Your correspondent seated himself in @ shady spot on the of the hotel and placed his Pocket caszazzagraph on the table be- tween the siphon and the glass. The bottle and your correspondent sur- rounded the caszazzagraph on the other two sides. Then your correspondent concentrated his thoughts upon Mayor Gaynor. “Discovered, but Not Found.” In a few minutes the cazzazzagraph began to whirr and groan and spit fire. ‘The following cazzazzagram was soon “Although discovered, I am not found. What do you want? It was Hyde! He was cazzazzagraph- ing his thoughts through intervening | miles of ether, writhing Impotently tn the grasp of science. Summoning a waiter and handing him @ $10 bili—$4 for @ highball and $6 for nimself~your cor- respondent proceeded to interview the $1,000-a-month clty of New York official. Q. Why did you leave our fair cit Mr. Hyde? offer of The World to use ite columns for any explanation you may wish to make of matters requiring explanation? A. I have never written anything for publication, Q. What seems to be the matter with you? A. My propelior sturt is bent and we will have to haul the boat out, put her in ary dock and have it straightened. Q. Comptroller Prendergast saye— At this moment the cassassagraph ex- ploded. Paesing by the Btop-a-While thie aft- | @rnoon, in his launch, your correspond- ent saw @ shadow on a@ curtain of the house boat and heard a low, mocking laugh. Meanwille, WATCH THE DOME! Bibhee nd eiticbaaty HYDE 1S STRANDED FOR THIRD TIME ON FLORIDA RIVER MUD. (From a Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) HOTEL ORMONDE, Florida, Jan. 14. —After being pulled, at midnight, from the mudbank on which she had stuck for thirty-six hours, the Stop. with Charles Hyde, | Chamber) aboard @ little way then ran aground agatn| about daybreak. She buried her snub nose deep !n the bar as if Cetermined to go no further. ‘This is the third time in three days! whe has done sa If Mr. Hyde was vexed by the delay, he kept his vexe- tion below decks with him, Beta are being made by the natives, | who are following the © with much interest, as to when Hyde will ‘come! went ahead for | A. It was my custom last year to take & houseboat trip to Florida about the | lst of December, stopping on the way ! down to pot a few ducks. | @. When do you intend to return? A. It 4s too early to state what my custom is this year. Q. Did the fact that the Legislative Graft Investigation Committee desired | to question you about the racetrack bills | have anything to do with your hike| Southward? A. Of course it did. Q. Mr. Hyde, it ts reported that you handled a large sum of money raised by by the racetrack interests, Did you} or did you not? | A. Certainly, Could He Trust Str. sere? Q Why did you deposit $1,000,000 of the city’s money in the Carnegie Trust Company without exacting a protective bond? | A. You wouldn't have me entrust the| precious funds of the clty to strangers, | would you? Q. Are you aware that the Carnegie Trust Company has failed? | A. I have been told that somebody tried to in and found the door | get locked, or something Like that. Q. What do you think about Joseph G. | Robin, reputed to have been your friend, tet in New York for stealing money who has been Ind since your departure from @ savings bank? | A. I think the ‘Tombs Is no place to be! in for comfort | Q. What do you know about the Astor | Mortgage Company? A. Why, I used to pass the Aator| House every day on my way between! Wall Street and the City Chamberlain's office. Q. Would you prefer to loan your own money or the city's money on short | term mortgages in amounts up to the) assessed valuati ) of the property cov- | ered by the mortgages? A.A business man should b. ‘with his own money Has a Retiring Dis Q. What was your ob yourself in seclusion for eriod of time? A. Lam of a retiring disposition, Q Would you avall yourself of the , tion, in keeping such a long here of Jeffries Turns It up for alr.” $60,000 OFFER FOR JOHNSON AND | Ib JEFFRIES AGAIN | Down, Saying Boilermaker | Will Never Fight Again, e jw Street, and Vincenso Nicoza, of No. 2386 Atlantic avenue, Brooklyn, were af-| jralgned before Magistrate Dodd in the New Jersey Avenue Court to-day there were @ thousand ugly looking men of their own race crowding the sMewalk outside the court room. They were friends of Esposito and Nicosa. ‘They could not get in because Magie- trate Dodd, warned by his last expert- ‘ence In attempting to try the same men, had sent for the reserves of the Miller avenue police station and had prevented any of the lowering, growling crew trom entering the court, Even this precaution did not prevent an attack on Detective Santoso in court of such violence that the cawe was adjourned. At the last hearing the crowd got into the court room. The witnesses In the cane were trembling in terror and even the detectives of the Italian Bureau were nervous, Magistrate Dodd sent for the reserves and had the room cleared. Sev- eral knives and a revolver were found on the court-room floor when the Inst of the crew had been pushed out to the street. Made Prisoner in Hut. The men are charged with at tolnetta Sgambetta, eighteen years old, from her home, No, 58 Snedeker street. in August, and keeping her prisoner for eevereal days in a hut in Queer She was found by a motorman, wanderin, and out of ‘her senses, When she re-| covered ele suid that the two men, who are about twenty y old, taken her fro: the hut, t her to a after lashing her with/ had left her, She worked | loose and found the road, half dead, | Detectives hunted all the Black Hand resorts of the five boroughs until Deo, | #1, when they found the men in Brook- lyn, i Detective Santoao took the stand to- day and began giving evidenc cenzo Nicoza leaped from the prison- er's chair at the detective's throat, He was tripped ant! pushed back to his ple Vengeance Threat In Court. | With tightly clenched fists he teaned forward, and, baring his teeth like @ cornered wolf, ‘cre he detective “You lle! You lle! And I will get you. And if I do not get you WE will!” ils struggles to reach the detective eoame so frenzied that the uproar In court was echoed by the surly crowd | outside, Magistrate Dodd hastily ad- Journed the case until Monday, ordered the men hurried back to prison and had the street cloared. The Magistrate said he thought it probable that the Brooklyn Magistrates would unite in asking the Commissioner of Police to take drastic action to stra! the terrorism which the Black Hand thugs have tried to surround the! ourts in Brooklyn within the past few | ee by appearing in hundreds to} reaten everybody who has to do with | ed in Italian SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Jan, 14—Tex | k mitted this afternoon that he! tage another battle between Jef. | 4 Johnson soon i R would fries a ef ndeavo: He wii! leave Los Angeles to-morrow in an to wet Joffries's signature tu «| | tract Rickard said ne would offer a purse |” |cades—may be interested to learn of an of $00,000, bonuses: but that there would be no, He will try to stage the battle; in Utah, and failing in that will go to Nevada. He declined to state his fur- ther plans at this tune, Jack Kipper, Jeftries’ business mai ager, dashed cold water on Ricard’s hops in Los Angeles to-day, however, according to 4 despatch from there. “There will be nothing doing on Ric! ard's effo: to arrange A seco) match,” he ts quoted as seying. fries says lie is through, and he mea it. Take it from m figit Jefiries ta ns there will be no feclined lo see reporters to Sunday World Wants Work Monday Morning Wonders, | against one of their comrades. ibe! Sake BIG HOTEL FOR NEWPORT. Special to The Evening World NEWPORT, Jan, 14.—Those who have jong known of the going down of New- port as the “Queen of Summer Resorts"’ @ title she has held undisputed for de. { important meeting held this afternoon | At the Newport Trust Company to de- Jae means for the erection of a btg| atiraction for visitors, All the prominent men of the alty were present Reference was made to former at- tempts to build a hotel in Newport and it was determined that ao far aa lay in) the power of those present and those) who would undoubtedly be associated | with them the new enterprise should | be pushed to success and {f possible | the waning pre of Newport re vived ine — okme ea tor “GRAM IS BITTER | and serving aa chairman of the County | been | County Committee and, naturally, there | Oréanisation candidate, CRAM BITTERLY SAYS. MURPHY SIDETRACKED HIM. Dix in an Interview Declares the Tammany Leader Has Not Mentioned the Name of Sheehan or Any Other Candi- date During Their Talks. “The Senatorial contest is still an open one,” declared Gov. Dix on | his arrival here today from Albany. “I do not think | should interfere | for or against any candidate.” The Governor was accompanied from Albany by Thomas Mott Os- | borne, who has charge of the Edward M. Shepard campaign, i mE. rn | ‘Have you anything to say Senatorial situation? was the first ques- | Paper men awaiting him. tlon put to the Governor by the news- The Governor smiled and answere@ in jthe negative. | “Have you an appointment with | Mayor Gaynor to discuss the situation?” No.” “WHI you meet | "I don't think so. day? m to-day?” Yes Intimates That William Sheehan Is the Choice of “The Interests.” Tam going now to tke lunchs eon with Dr. Stryker Hamilton Col- lowe; after that | will meet two delega- tions of G. A. R. men, and T expect to take dinner at the Club to-night.” Can't Even Make a Guess. “WHT you make @ prediction on the | Senacortal situation?” There are «o many candidates in the © F. wing to an interview printed in| Ac |the Evening Pos: to-day and said Oe ese asl i. canner make even a guess have been had last night at the Cram ee ide oa this question wae” home, No. $ East Thirty-olghth street. | changed J. Sergeant Cram admitted that he! “\psolutely would himself have been a candidate! “Then you will not interfere as seve for Untted States Senator had not his| eral newspapers have reported that you wishes been vetoed by Charles F. Mur- | would’ The Governor hesitated for a moment. Carefully choosing his words, he ge- led slowly: 1 don't think I will interfere ene | way or the other—I don’t think I should. | 'The Senatorial contest is still an open jf There are seven candidates, and “the every one of them Is going to have a Interets’’ were behind the Sheehan can- | fair chance so far as | am concerned.” didacy. The man who has for years| “It is reported that a delegation frem been prominent in Tammany Hall posing | Brooklyn will see you this afterneeu as the social mentor of Boss Murphy | to try to induce you to intercede ta Mr. Shepard's behalf, Is that #0, Gev- Committee showed great bitterness when | enor?” “I haven't heard of it.” “WAL you ses them? Ready to See Any One. phy. He t# quoted as declaring that it Willlam F. Sheehan were chosen by the Assembly at Albany {t would seriously | Pt destroy the future chances of the now | triumphant Democratic party in this State Mr, Cram further intimated that he spoke of the situation that has been | brought about at Albany by Murphy Talks of “The Interests. Quoting Mr. Cram the Post say “IL will see anybody who advocates { think ‘the Intere: have one Sen- any candidate.” ator already. Why should they have| “After you see the Brooklyn peaple two Why should not the other 9,000 people of New York be represented ‘Who was your original cholce for Senator ‘Many of my friends came to me and | asked me to be @ candidate, but Mr. Murphy woukl not hear of it. T might have been a candidate tf it had not been Gre you likely to make any statement?” “I don't think so. I’m not going to ay anything in favor of or agalnet aby candidate.” “Is there any posisbility, Governer, of your attitude upon this subject bee ing changed in the future?" ‘The Governor hesitated again, thar ha Ai BOL cOGARA IE With fazar® “I don't think there is," he answered, Did he tell you #0?” “I don’t think 1 should interfere.’* “He did, 1 think the people wanted |... Has Charles F. Murphy, leader of In sympathy with thee in. Tammany ital, discussed the sites. Hon with you t true that Thomas F. Ryan and| "1 &™ absolutely frank with you im this matter Was the reply, “Mr, Murphy has not suggested the name of any candidate to me.” Expressed No Preference, “Did Mr, Murphy express a prefer- ence for Mr, Sheehan or anybedy are Mr. Murphy had not expressed eueh the Governor said, nor Anthony Brady dictated the nomination of Sheehan?’ "I cannot anawer that question, You and Mr. Murphy have been very » friends for some time, ave you now” Mr. Murphy and [ were associated in politics,” he maid after a brief pause “For the past six or seven years I have chairman of the | | & preference, Democratic {Had he mentioned the name of amy ‘The candidates have been many things to confer about, | for the Senitorship are understood to be Edward M. Shepard, William F, Shee- eee e =» Ban, D-Cady ghee, Senyour Vea ; 4 RRR cracratd