The evening world. Newspaper, January 30, 1911, Page 1

| | partment had been invoke i ot - ee ed M’CURDY FALLS TO SEA ON RECORD FLIGHT ARNOLD GIRL SOUGHT BY SECRET SERVICE Tuesday; colder. On Circulation Books Open to Al The “PRIOE ONE CENT. Coprriant, 1 ARNOLD GIRL'S APPEAL TO GOVERNMENT PARENTS TQ HELP FIND DAUGHTER cranes Lawyer for Family Enlists Se-| cret Service and Post-Office | Department in Hunt. | FLYNN IS CONSULTED. | | Father, Fearing Foul Play,| Asks Police to Drag Lakes in Central Park. | Admission was finally made this after- noon that the ald of the Post Office De- | In the search for Miss Dorothy II, C. Arnold, the so- ty girl who disappeared on Dee, 12. ‘Tile newest move in the world-wide hunt for the missing young woman came aa @ Girect result of the siory, first printed in this paper, that Miss Arnold was at the Post OMce on the day she vanished, ahd there received a letter from abroad which may have ingpired her sudden flight out of the city and possibly out of | the country. 1 To « reporter for The Evening World} Attorney John 8, Keith owned up late to-day that he had been to the Gov- ernment Secret Service Bureau. “1 first went there several weeks, ago,” he added, hastily, “But my pur- pose was to trace, if possible, certa outgoing mail that may have bei posted by Miss Arnold.” | ‘Hasn't the matter of incoming mail| addressed to Mise Arnold jately been the subject of inquiry also?" was asked, Mr. Keith hesitated a moment, Then he said | Information to Police. ! “If such were the case no repo: would be made to me personally by the secret service people, They would tu over their information to the police. Ponsibly I may hear something new along that line when I confer with Deputy Commissioner Flynn this after- noon, Mr. Keith would not say whether he had been in consultation with Inspector Kinkald of the secret service. He did say, however, that he had tried to see luspector Dixon, but found Dixon was out of the city. | Postmaster Morgan practically con-| firmed the admission that the latest turn tn the search had led the path of investigation Into Government channels, for when asked for detatis he suid “TE cannot discuss the matter. It ts in hands of the Secret Service Depart. | ment. To Drag Park Lake. | Despite the fact that ev stream | and every lake in Central Park was vov- ered with hard Ice on Dec, 12, the father of the missing gir! still seamed strongly of the belief to-day that the police should | of his drag the waters for the body daughter. | Lawyer Keith, the personal represen: | tative of the Arnold family in the search for the young socte' ramen | who vanished #0 mysteriously, left his office at No, 4 Wall street this afternoon | for Headquarters to confer with Com: | fitesioner Cropsey regarding the advisa- | pillty of exploring the meres and the res- | ervoite, He took this step at the ur-! font request of old Mr. Arnold in the face of the fact that the early part of December had been uninterruptedly | cgi and the temperature on the i3th | did not range above 2% and actually fell | as low ae 16 above zero, which is 16 de- | gree below the freezing point. But Mr. Arnold stuck to the theory | that Miss Dorothy might have been a tacked in a@lonely part of the park, | killed, and her body shoved through @ hole in the fee. On no other ground can the fatler account, he says, for a disappearance so sudden, 80 comple' and so unaccountabl Near the Park. | He felt strengthened in this position | by @ supposed development regerding the girl's movements on the doy of her veniehing. It hed been believed from | the start that Miss Arnold bought « half-pound box of-candy at Park & ‘Titord’s, Fifty-ninth street and Fifth avenue, early in the afternoon, But laa night there came forward a woman whose name is withheld, and this woman is powitive that Me a Mu saw Miss Arnold se- | — ELEVENTH BALLOT 4N ALBANY ON SENATORSHIP (Special to The Evening World.) ALBANY, Jan, 30,—The eleventh Joint ballot in the Legislature for United States Senator resulte follows Senate. Assembly. Total. Sheehan 1 Shepard .. Kernan Glynn .... Littleton . O'Brien ...... Van Sanvoord. Taylor ....... Parker Sulser ....... Depew (Rep.). 85 8 7 a a 2 1 1 1 1 83 BOCOMHHH OND JUSTICE DOWLING NOW LOOMS. UP IN. THE SENATE RACE | Eleventh Joint Ballot Is Inef- fective, Forty-three Mem- bers Being Absent. (Special from a Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) ALBANY, Jan. 30.—Justice Victor J, ling of New York began to loom up o-day as a Senatorial possibility when the Legislature met In joint session to resume the balloting. Congressman Frances Burton Harrison 1s also talked of by Tammany men as @ dark horse in the event that Murphy | finally decides to drop William F. Shee- Dov jhan. During the past few days I have heard considerable talk about Harrt- son," said Senator Christopher D, Sulll- van “Would he be acceptable to yout was asker ‘Yes; but you know I am a good sol- "yeplied the Tammany Senator. Assemblyman Minor MeDantels, one of the Insurgents who represents ‘Tompe | kins County, declared that he belleved Congressman Harrison woukl be satia- | factory to the insurgents. “Tam seriously epnaidering voting for him myself at to-mbrrow*s session,” said Dr, MoDantels At the joint session to-day there was no material change in the balloting. No breaks in either insurgent or regular ranks were recorded, One new candl- date—Congres#inan William Sulger--wae, added to che list, aud Gov, Dix, D-Cady Herrick and Justice James Gerard were eliminated Assemulyman Kennedy of Quee.s |County, who for several days has been voting for Gov. Dix, switched to Con- gressman Sulver, Senator Duhamel and Assemblyman O'Connor, Indepepdence League mem- bers who have been for Gerard, turned to former State Comptroller Martin H. Glynn, Justice Gerard's friends declared that |this loss did not affect his chances in | the least and that !t only eliminated him as the Independence League candidate and made his selection by the Tam- jeer organization more likely, — REPORT ON ROBIN’S SANITY. Allentsts Examine Accused Banker W111 Inform Court of Findings. Drs. Bailey, amine Charles A. Dana and Pearce the allenists appointed to ex- Joseph G. Robin, banker, a# to his mental condition, will make their report to Judge Swann tn General Sessions late this afternoon, The two alienists have held two ex- aminations of the accused financter and| will hold another one before making! their report to Judge Swann, Robin trial as to his sanity will be held to- marrow, His counsel, William Travers Jerome, said to-day that he belleved Robin would be adjudged insane end went to Metteawan, by The Press Publishing Co, (The "New York World). the Indicted | NEW YORK, MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 19 WHILE ALONE IN ROOM WITH GIRL Daniel A. Cassela Dies and Madelina Baccigalupo Is Held on Suspicion. SMOKE Boaty |GIRL REFUSES TO TALK, Married to Miss Hagelstein \Physician Was to Have Been} | | | To-Morrow Evening. MECUROY LEAVING Wer WEST ar 7:32 AM. ~ Dr, Daniet A. Cassela, a rich physl- |etan, was shot twice in the forehead and fatally wounded early this after- | Mnoon whil e@lone in the rear room | of Ms drug store, at No. 6 Cath- erine street, with Madelina Bacciguipo, @ pretty young woman. The girl, in a| | wildly hysterical condition, was taken | to Gouverneur Hospital as a prisoner | held on ausphvion, ‘The doctor died there | two houre later. owned anather drug store at, and Roosevelt streets, « few, blocks away, and he usually divided his} time between them when he was not! * - paying professional cats on patients on| Ane lower east side. He walked into the Catharine street store soon after | the lmch hour. Almost immediately | Baccigalupo girl entered. The physt- clan's clerks insisted that she was his Mlece, but according to the goseip of the neighborhood he had been paying her | attentions more ardent than those which even a middle-aged uncle might bestow upon a kinswoman as young and pretty 8 Madelina is, Soon to Be Married. Be that as it may, the girl had learned | only a few days ago that on to-morrow | night he expected to marry @ girl living | ‘UNDER EXPRESS I seis See: SUBWAY AT BRE excitement. Before she had time if °'L. R. Post of Brooklyn Has speak more than a word or two Pissionate Italian the doctor clapped hie hand over her mouth and pee Legs Cut Off and Is Dying her by the arm he thalé ted, halt dragged | her around behind the prescription c into a small inner room, ‘Two of three customers and the clerk, Salvatore Seliaro, who had witnessed the scene, Ilstened for what might fol- low. ‘They heard the two voices in| N° 242 Groove street earnest conversation for a minute or | tempted suicide at the Br two, then a scream from the girl, and | station of the subway to-day by jump- then in close succession the sound of |/ng in front of an express train, His | two shot |legs were cut off. According to Motor- ‘The reports brought Tony Nunziato, aj nan William Holt of the express train, butcher, from hts shop next door, ‘The| Post was crouching on the platform butcher and the clerk ran back into the| about two car lengths from the end. inner room. The proprietor lay on his| As the train approached he deliberately }back upon the floor wit!) two holes in| slid forward and fell across the track |the front of his skull just amove As he dropped Holt threw on the yeorows. He was already unconscious, | ¢mergency brake and blew his whistle, Just under one of his outstretched hands |The pacsengers tn the train wero t.rown | wan a revolver with two of Its chambera| from their seats by the suddenness of newly fred, The sirl was huddied in a te stop. ‘The man's legs had been corner with her face in her hands, moan- | Caught by the forward wheels, but the! ing and sobbing. Either she could not or {4in Was halted with such promptrass | would not make any fntelligibie state-|that the wheels remained fixed on the in Hospital. L. R, Post, sixty-two years old, of Brooklyn, at- okiyn Bridge the ae bod, . 4 Post was removed to the Hudson, Taken Away Together. Street Hospital, where he recovered con-| Policeman Frets of the Madison| sciousness and told his name. Dr, Wess street atation rang for an ambulance, | son gaid that Post was saved from in- and the dying man and the frantic} stant death by the prompt action of an girl were taken away together v [unknown navy man who made tours Dr. Caanela, who wasa native of Genoa: | ntquets trom string and several hand- | where he waeborn forty-elght years ago, | kerchiefs, which he fastened about the OF TORPEDO Fe iz SHOWING ay THE WAY To_ ERVANA 347 ‘AED MANLEAPS CROWD ON BRIDGE has been prominent among his people on injured limbs. The hospital authorities the cast side for many years. He made | do not think Post will live the day out. lot of money out of his practice and his | ani [Serre ents eel NORADANRO STRIKE, | SAYS MAYOR WITTPEN. | | unsuccessful race for alderman from his | ward on the Fusion ticket. Last year = hhe tried again for the nomination but| Agent of C didn't see it, He was a widower of a rand had ome young son | He boarded with the family of Phillip Hagelstein at No, 811 East One Hundred and Seventy-sixth street, and it was) | Hagelstein's twenty-year-old daughter| Katharine that he meant to marry to- morrow evening, His flancee was no- tifled of what had happened downtown by telephone and she at once started company in Jersey City and Labor Leaders Hold Same View Mayor Wittpen of sow whom a comintttee of th ployees of the Adams Exp presented a list of grievances against the| | company, deciared to-day that no atrike | was threatened, and that he did not be- cir fontzed em- ores Company | \for Gouverneur Hospitai accompanied vere there waa 8 Wbility of al by her widowed sister, but arrived at. | "Pike in the im ‘ter he dled. The Jersey City said that the In the meanwhile Madelina Bacct-| ##Teved employees complained that 160 | had been ped for no other ow onal un galupo had grown rational under the! reston than that they were members of | m Ae we #he! the unton, Mayor Wittpen had asked | | wae calm Detectives Murphy and Sul-! tor @ alstory of each case, promising to livan took her to the Madison street cake the matter up with Agemt McKay station, and there with Capt. sSchlott-|of the company. Up to to-day the Mayor man they questioned her. The young|had received the history of only ten woman, who Ia handsome, aithougn cates Of alleged digcriminction againat : union me only about & feet in height, said sho! “gone McKay said to-day that he had Was twenty-four years old and that ahe/ not the slightest Inkling of any three ved with her mother, Mrs, Marie! ened strike. An officer of the anton sald Baccigalupo, at No, 2% William street.| that an offort was being made tv uso ee Hthe union in the tess of parcel-post | (Continued on Second Page.) esitation ’ ’ | fore it or the | awept away by the tide | tlon 11. SFES MAN DROWN FROM FERRYBOAT, Swift Tide Sweeps Suicide! From Life Preservers and Boat Is Launched Too Late. The ferryboat Somerset had just cleared her slip at Catherine street at 11 o'clock this morning when @ well dressed, red hatred young man, about twenty-two years old, who was stand- ing in the stern of the boat, vaulted over the side rail into the river, The fdw passengers who were in that end of the boat saw the young man's act and ran toward him, but were not quick enough to restrain him, ‘They set up @ cry of “Man over- bo * and Capt, Trevail signalled the engineer to slaw down, ‘The wind was blowing a gale at the time and there was @ strong tide and Capt. Trevail's efforts to bring his boat close to th man struggling in the water were uni vailing. The wind and tide carried th boat further from the man and the lines and ringbuoys thrown from the deok fell short. A number of tugs hastened tv help in the attempt to rescue A boat was lowered from the som erset and rowed toward the spot where the man was seen struggling, but be- tugs could reach him he had gone down and bis body was Several tugs tried to locate the body, but no trace of it could be found, No one on the ferryboat knew who {i young man was ‘A crowd on the bridge witnessed entire spectacular tragedy cape eS TO OBEY NO- “STANDEE RULE. | re Ma ra Tell Waldo They Will Seek New Law. A conference was held to-day at Fire Headquarters by Fire Commissioner Waldo, Assistant Corporation Counsel Herman Steifel and representatives an the Th managers of the theatrioal houses ret ative to the standee ordinance which Commissioner Waldo has ordered en- forced ‘The managers naid they were willing to abide by the Fire Commissioner's de- ciston and told him they would not sell standing room tickets. They sald, how- ever, that they would ask for legisla- n the subject. It Was explained that there w many theatre-Kor HAVANA _|THEN JUMPS FOR LIFE Rl McCurdy in Flight From Florida to Cuba; oH DOCTOR SHOT Diagram View of Course He Followed rr) MILES PROM Navan “METURDY DROPPED ‘aire OsTANcE Between ~2 KEY Wesy 4IND NavaANA AUTO GETS AFIRE AND BLOWS UP IN CROWDED STH AVE. 16 >Aese WEATHER—Falre To-ntaht and ‘1 | ‘PRICE ONE CENT. 1,000-FT. DROP TO SEA. -ENDS MCURDY FLGHT ~ TO MILES OFF HAVANA Flyer Makes Over-Ocean Record From Key West, When Lack of Oil Compels Descent at 35-Mile Speed. PONTOONS FLOAT CRAFT : EASILY UPON THE OCEAN “How Warm It’s Getting,”|Torpedo Destroyer Paulding Picks’ Up Aviator J ys Chauffeur of Big Delivery Machine. | Funeral Cortege Just Falling Debris. ‘ape “Funny how warm It's getting,” 4 marked A. Pell, chauffeur and owner of @ bik delivery automobile, to his helper, H. G, Johnaon, tly before noon to- day, The car was running south tn Fifth avenue and was appre aching Sev. onty-ffth street. There were crowds on the sidewalks awaiting the passage of | , the funeral of the tate Inspector Mc- Cafferty “It's just ike summer," agreed Jobn-| son, “I feel ike taking off my com! A puff of smoke shot out from under | tne seat, followed by a burst of flame. Tae two men stood up juet in une to avold a flery wave that enveloped the neat, Pell shut off the power and Jumped for safety. Johnson leaped too. The automoniie turned, ran to the cunb in front of the residenc Harkness, the St stopped Gasoline Tank Explode of Edward | ndary Ol man, and By that time the machine, which was fied with packages for delivery from the clothing store of Brokaw Br was entirely ablage. Pell and Johnson knew the gasoline tank was fol! and ean to shout Warnings of w possivle explosion. The crowd scattered in all direction y jumping the park wall Within a minute after the car stopped | the gasoline tank let xu with # roar that wae heard half a milo away of the machine were hurled Afty in the air, Fortunately the w ing of the chauffour had been heeded nd no one was struck by the ng hail of intastiew Policeman Kavanagh, on post at Se enty-fourth atreet, le e explosion, aw the fire and turned in an alr When the firemen arcived they had little to do, The machine had | utterly destroyed. Biist and Scorched Clothes Policemen and firemen dragged vie wreck Into Seventy-fifth street, and) the debris was all out of the way when the McCafferty funeral cortege, headed by the police band, came along Pell, who liven at No, 461 West One Hundred and Pifty-tirat street, and Johnson, whose home im at No. 666 Caldwell avenue, the Bronx, got off with bilsters and scorened clothing Peli rented his car to the Brokaw firm. He cannot account for the fire HAINS, SLAYER OF ANNIS, RESIGNS FROM THE ARMY. Presidemt Taft Accepts Tender From Captain Now Serving Prison Term for Shooting. WASIDINGDON Jan Presiden Tart has accepted the reslguation from the a y of Capt Hatus Coast Artillery Corpse, effective Jan espectaily in (ie Vaudeville houses, who came In late and Liked to stand dus ‘ © teow acts and then leave. Capt. Haina is serving a pentte itenoe for the marder of Willtam E. Annis at Bayside, L, 1, in 1909, Awaiting McCafferty distance from Key West, | and Aeroplane, but Machine Is Too Badly Crippled to Resume and Finish Flight | to the Cuban Capital. 30.—Although he failed to cover the entire , to this city in an aeroplane flight to-day, J. A.D, McCurdy, the Canadian aviator, had broken all records for an | airship oversea flight when he was compelled to drop from the sky to the ice of the ocean ten miles off Havana harbor, The flight was inter- _| rupted because MeCurdy's machine had used up all the lubricating oil HAVANA, Cuba, Jan, sur in his supply. Almost within sight of his goal, McCurdy swooped down. to the water and landed on the waves like a seagull. His descent was witnessed from the torpedoboat Paulding, one of the flotilla posted along the line of flight, and the vessel was alongside his aircraft inside of ten minutes. McCurdy was calmly seated in his perch between the planes, He was |not even wet. The pontoons with which the aeroplane was equipped kept jit afloat and upr ight. ADELE RAFTER DIES IN HOSPITAL AFTER OPERATION _— | A lifeboat was sent to MéCurdy ¢rom the Paulding, He dropped into the beat, and then superintended the work of wal | veging the aeroplane. In anticipation of the very contin- Mey that arose, the Paulding had " ftted out with @ platform over-deck viola It was thought chat MoCurdy might be able to make a new etart from this platform and complete ¢he Havana. But the motor of the aeroplane wae found to be damaged, and MeCurdy and his machine were brought to this port on the Paulding. | Great Ovation In Havana, | As the aviator landed on the water front he was given an evation that could trip t | Beautiful Actress and Singer Expires of Appendicitis Fol- | scarcely have been more tumuttous hat ; ips ; he accomplished a complete auocess anv! lowing Brief Illness. | won the $8,000 prise for the trip. It i} | Das not been decided whether the lucky its — aviator will make another attempt to fy Adele Rafter, a tress and ainger | Petree Cuba and the United States, .| Habnemann Hospital after an operation | \g i ard the Paulding wae unde [He alt HveLLaL AES ANL SORTED ne uban revenue cutter Hatuey r reached the scene, bringing this mes: wore with her, took lier body with them | sage from President Gomes, eho ne to their home at Dunkirk, N. Y., for| been apr d of the failure of the a burial. Miss Rafter had been I for{ tempt b ens only a few days Tell Mev McCurdy that the Presi Adele ltufter founder Shrigita in of congratulates him ou Paris, When she urned New York = off aching Havana in an she sang he Brick Pre an} Sereplane, and that we will do wie. Churen during Dr. Henry Van Dyke's syer We CAR t0-Aeie ain ae ee dates Lie etek My the time MeCurdy and bis ae ; } a, , 5 plane had been safely stowed away } pomedy b. othe produ an f De Ko Paulding the other boats of ¢ ven ald M aria n Philade!piia}attending flotilla had arrived. = 7 and at once achieved s Paudding wae escorted imto Hare ress as Well asa wer. Afte 4 r DY & BeOre of craft, toot) appeared in leading parts w es and displaying flags and bun beard,” “Little Jon Jo ins. MoCundy gave this account of ais Lam and e Lady Fr 1 e hap Mins Rafter was very popular with her| Aviators's Own Story, 5 ‘ eke I neared the TY at a speed of ; veseven miles, and at an altitud Bs vnetat ace Qf 1000 feet, Suddenly I notice) « faire with groat auevess until the ran or | TONS sound coming Crom the engine win areas v1 but being in sight of Havana, I hoped the play was ¢ 1 {to complete the trip by slowing down th f » had Jed in} a pit waving any mone } “Ll sunk lower und 1 was forced ta > Jescend, which I did voluntarily, wit ¥ Mack Cats on Dix, | ine machine und perfect control. _f eakwe Jans Mca Frank »,| truck the waa while going about an alien ae Dix to-day to pay| thirty-five mi m hour, 1 did not Reg ¥ | nthe | exhausted, and only 4 er | the failure 9 engine prevented the 4 Building Turkish Betis j # the: Aight Phe: Gps an a eae a hayy Was superb, ue Although yw Allied In bis ettege? tp © i) ‘ vs