The evening world. Newspaper, February 20, 1911, Page 1

HYDE STORY SHUT OUT AT BRIBERY TRIAL Oe eee FI tlh ald __ PRICE _ONE CENT. HYDE BARRED NOT ALLOWED TO TESTIFY ABOUT RAGE BRIBE FUND Court Declares aoe Chamber- | lain’s Story Has No Bear- ing on Gardner’s Guilt. ELDER CONTRADICTED. Ge ge L. Tirrell Declares He| Never Discussed Case With Brooklyn Prosecutor, Charles H. Hyde, the Clty Chamber- Jain, was subpoenaed this afternoon a witness for the de of former State Senator Frank J. Gard- ner of Brooklyn. Henry J. Goldsmith, assistant counsel for Gardner, presum- ably served Mr. Hyde with a summons at Hyde's offices at 1.9 o'clock. — Rat after the defense had opened its ease Justice Seabury declined to allow the introduction of Mr. Hyde as a wi's Ness on the ground that Hyde could only tewtify to collateral issues not diregtly connected with the charge against the defendant at the bar. Mr. Hyde, after sitting in the cour - oom for more than an hour, went back to his department in the Stewart Build. ing. £0 Will Shut Out All of Them. ‘Ths ruling, If ed throughont the trial, means that none of the pron enfor | meals and church services. A few min- inent men named in Robert H. Elder's a hs x ujes after 9 o'clock the aeronaut's ins version of Gardner's pged confes- | . ; trepid wife boarded the car, She was sion as having figured in the raising of | Rapelionaa accorded a tremendous ovation as she a mill Mar : leap Mio the basket, Barta to meet the Ha ‘ i A bilis " c take ba the stand to-morro en (ie resumed. Two incidents ¢ at the morning s+ One was the flat contradiction by George 1. Tirrell, private secretary of Comptroller Prendergast, of part of the Story told on the witness stand Robert Elder, Assistant Prosecutor of Kings County, Mr. jer had sworn that Tirrell, o was an Alba ne out prominen on dy w cor- ondent in 1908, repeated an al. ten he was] leged conversation in which Gardn ony : ‘A en at ve Hobson on was quoted as having paid Poetk ef ate OF : i | 609 for his vote, Tirretl inv his testi-! HHevson, In a speech ear y j mony to-day declared he hed never had a defi rstructive poll a conversation with Eider on the sub- redivted war withla Jeet. eclared that Japan The other incident was connected wi My prepared for | the testin rge W. Hall op | that the United States would be forced Wilkes-Ba rmerly a sales;t it a long drawn out, exhausting | | strug ae nated Hail ee Bi | lobson said that he had not the leged conversation which he quoted Gardner any and that Foel- ceived $10,000 to vote with ¢ out In cross-examina ce} e emp npany t he is receiving 8 a week and expen from the District-Att Tirreil on ae Stand, When the trial was re morning session Mr, Nott led ould beg notion of Max the defen ing Tirrell. Before he testimony ihe Judg Steuer, chief nsel struck out ‘nas portion for of the evidenc 7. of Assistant Distnict-Attorney Robe: Elder of a County referring to the alleged payment ney to poo ined to story, em! sion of @ ardner to M Being thus clrour askel Tirrell if conversations he had had with touching on legisladive maaters. ell couldn't recall talking or at all, Elder had stated u oath that Mrrell told him he unde sivod Otto G Foelker, y Congress eribed, Mr, he remembered man from (he ‘chird District, but in | 108 a tate ‘Benator, had al $15,000 to vote against the a 5 acts Showing his disappointment at t answer of tho witness, Mr Not down, and Mr eross-examined Mr, Tirrell “Pid you,” asked Steuer, Elder in Albany during 1908 “Yea, I think so," said the “ever see witness (Continued on Second Page.) nage at the trial| N Copyright, 10 Co. (The FROM SiN WOMAN AERONAUT ASKS ZEROBLAST. by The Prose Publishing w York World). nan +. SR RRS ES nen ae enemane SENATORSHIP NEARLY LOST BY DEMOCRATS ___ NEW YORK, MONDAY, SAYS “TOM” ECKERT MADE ATTACK ON Brother Swears to Episode at ‘Glen Cove That Began Family Feud. CHOKED CHILD ALSO. /Said Father Was Incompetent IN NIGHT FLIGHT / Mme. Barlatier With Her Hus-. band Sails Away in Big Bal- loon for Montreal. latier are braving zero weather and cutting southwest wind in the first win- ter balloon flight ever made In this part of the country. The French aeronaut and his wife sailed away from Ogdens- burg at 9.15 last night, hoping to reacn Montreal. Thousands saw them swing low over the ¢lty and disappear in the ~ Montreal, ideal and t the slightest mi and with a light ‘alling The news in the ug that the bal- was preparing sail spread through the city like wildfire and caused ; the wholesale abandonment of evening | | toon to HOBSON PREDICTS WAR \ WITH JAPAN IN 10 MONTHS. Congressman Declares Mikado Is} Prepared for Long Struggle With United States, WASHIN( ‘, Feb. 2.—War, t pxhaustin ong continued, w Ananese ten months h within slightest doubt that the Japanese now| jon the Pacifle Coast w prepar vit | with their ome Government for war against the United States | “But isn't rue that in Japan’ yresint flianeial state ud Lord a war?” asked Represent urd up now ‘ tho re she already financed the war us over 1 the financial re- jources for a war before ft occurred DIX DENIES “JOKERS.” Admits Responsibility and Vouches | | | for Ratlroad BL | ALBANY, Feb. 20-day Dix to-day | frankly assumed a ronsibiity fo th ntroduced Emer to Highvay bill, put in for © of building a $1,200,900 road system through Oneida and Her- kimer Countles to Mo Moe Keever, where the ( as large | interests, State Cha Wintleld A | Huppuch also has interests which it is ned would be benefitted by the building of this road, When the Govel jernor was asked about these supposed | Joxers" to-day he declared that he had sugae the measure to | ors ai a from that at Tha be al! “sp have Interest In the road, and no persona onstruction, 1 believe o It and entral portion advantage believe State ought to be considered.” that | Gen. and Threatened to Have Sanity Commission, James Clendenin Eekert, contesting the will of his father, the tate Gen. | Thomas T. Eckert, which cut him off with only $150,000, and left his younger i] (ee Ae ert jr, the buik of 4 $2,(00,000 estate, testified before Sur- ae ite rae rogate Cohalan to-day to the alleged | OGDENSE , N. Y.. Feb, 20.—Muf-| causes that led to the present bitter- fled in furs, Mr. and Mrs, mil Bar-| ness tween himself and brother. He charged that T. T. Eckert jr. at- tacked his wife at Glen Cove, L. I, during the summer of 1859, and left black and blue marks on her throat. “My brother then went to his room and remained there the rest of the day,” sald the witness, rat happened next?” father came.” 1 your b vr remain tong after at with you and your fam! t long.” ed Clendenin Eekert tively, Croked Child, He Says. Later, when he and his family were ving In a house near the General's at Elberon, N. J., Clendenin Eckert de- clare’, T. T, Eckert jr. ‘made life so unbearable" for them they were forced to recurn to New York “He caused many "sald the} elder brother, “Ho swore my wife and children, hurled s the house choked the ehild. er I against © any conversation ar bro} with y ther about your father's mental condition?” was the next ques- tion. “Yes,” said Mr. Eckert. “My brother told me he mission Was going to have a com- appointed to take care of father's affairs, He said father was In- competent, I sald ‘Never.’ He sald: ‘LE will do it anyway.’ 1 answered: ‘You never will if I} about it. “Did you have a conversation with your brother ahout money "You 1 say 19097" told him I wanted some owed me money for four. were on friendly term: with ye ther at that time “Why, yea; we “Do you rer r occas 18 than the ones you have mentioned t Glen © and Elberon you y trouble with your brother?" rs death tn la lying to mother ind father Yes, in 189. My brother ordered me it of my father's home. He said tt wa Owned Tiny § ut _ to t rom 1907 to the suimine ify that the General w ally when he left the ( He would tell pver and over and was eastly Clentenin ¢ red his test! De Lancey on) Nt xaint ng, asked about ‘ scxer 1 his famit " conned an: r boat near ames navy mn moa Gen De Mr. Eckert said he now owned one | boat—the Thistle Had Made Prior Will. * William TH Be 2d and onl Thomas T. stand and er Nicoll, Counse fore contested) tn , the beautiful to the will now which Miss Joanna daughter of Clendenin Eckert, was be- queathed Carlton Terrace, one of Gen. okert’s valuable coun ey. SISTERAN-LAW ave anything to} ry places in New | SAYS MILLIBNAIRE SOCIALIST WALLING MADE LOVE A TOY, Beautiful Russian Girl De- mands $100,000 for Wreck of Affections. WOOED IN MANY LANDS. Talented Young Woman Pro- duces Bundles of Letters to Support Claim. Wittiam English Walling, millionaire Socialist and settlement worker and nephew of Wiliam H. English, date for Vice-President of the United in 1890, is the defendant in « $100,000 suit for alleged breach of promise to marry begun before Justice Gleger- fxch and a jury in the Supreme Court to-day. The plaintiff 1s Annette B. Grunspan, a strikingly beautiful teacher of Rus ian, who met the author of “Russi Message" in Paris in 190, Mies Gruns- pan fs twenty-three years old, dark haired and tall. A l:ood and gown in black velvet threw tntw strung contract her oval face ard complexion as puri “ Her mothe: and brother 1 her behalf, He Weds Another. Walling is tall and blond, with blue dreamy eyes. Although reputed to be a millionaire, he was shabbily dressed He married Anna Strunksy, a Russian authoress, In her complaint Miss Grunspan candi am, were ses noted that Walling promised to mar prin France, Germany, Engiand, Rusela and | swit where she trave | him prial for a « this man had not actal a & woman’g heart and her affection were I was only seventeen whe } me to marry him,” said Mivs n. lawyer, toys for ht | amuse: ent Gruns Her Arthur W. Wickiwire, |she said, has bundles of letters writ |ten by the rich socialist. Walling de- nied that he ever promised to mar.y the girl and said he took friendly interest in her w ies , paid for her tutoring in i] sympathies, he says, for t | Russians at the thie of (he mo oy n Russia caused him to be interest in this young woman, Met in Paris Street. | Miss Grunspan first met Walling, testified, while returning hom her place of employment one | May, 195, Walling, with a friend. | costed her and sald | “Pardon m mademoiselle, m | thinks he knows you. She repulsed him, but he p to her home. ext day » his invitetion to ride Fet HT lot, where She reproached hi ' v laviehiy, 9» ) that she was nw | and that it did not look we | plied that he “had plen t Continued | nice, refined and \* even tec nd rece | tor Mr. Wal considera him made me quite me Once fine presents, pair of ve mother if 1 agreed, if the in his gift.’ It was at the Porte vuld gentl Ma r wn told me 1 was woman he ever met. that he all over t me most of He had been an and placed r | finger and s would be ‘ he would rimtnal ermittesd his fancee to work, He t me my salary sia w but I stopped w m «wore took place Misa G an state that Walling suggeste! a trip to Wa saw to bring to Parts he © brot ers. | | He told me that as 1 was engaged to iim that I must obey uls wishes, (Continued on Second F “FEBRUARY 20, 1911, 16 ‘COULD HAVE ELECTED DEPEW, — REPUBLICANS Girl and Miilionaire Socialist She Is Suing tor $100,000, ANNA B GRUNSPAN WALLING wnt ee LACE IMPORTERS EX-SENATOR'S WIFE ~) ARERELDFOR PASSES ORDEAL OF CUSTOMS FRAUE SURGEON'S KNIFE PGES eer ~~ — 312,000 Bail for Duflot, $7,500 |Mrs. W. A. Clark Rallies After h for Mills and | Successful Operation for Mourraille. | Appendicitis. vurr a ny j for n ul nt ip t i * lace MW at 1 r rv s i eit. , a fala I . vat ea fo a ' ‘ rra al wk : a ’ ed © eerate A cy 2 aused Itt 1 teat. : oe ' A A mT PHAY rink tit At Committee ' 4 We ATA nator f Nha Martel ive sige World W: Wants Work Dis pedlue soe alii atin) nt Monday Morning Wonders orl | Circulation Books Open to All.”’ | » PAGES ni BOA WEATHER-snow 1 ht, Teceday mae ola INAL ac PRICE ONE ORNT. HAD THE VOTES, sae Democratic Leader Smith Has a Beg Minority Not to Press Advant- age and Re-elect Depew When Tammany Men Fail to Appear. ; MISTAKE AS TO PAIRING : CAUSE OF THE TROUBLE. |Warning Is Sounded, However, That if Such a Condition Arises Next Monday the Re-> publicans May Not Be So Generous to Their Opponents. on (Special Prom a Staff Cormapondent,) ALBANY, Feb. 20.—Had the Republican leaders of. the Legislature pressed an advantage that unexpectedly came to their aid to-day ‘hey. might have elected Chauncey M. Depew United States Senator on'the. joint ballot. The Democrats were caught napping, with but a fractional part of their representation on hand, while the Republicans in both branches were present in almost full force. With Bows Murphy remaining in New the Democrats thought their pairs wetw York and the Sheehan man, apa-|to stand for to-day's session, On the thetic the caucus-bound De contrary the Republicans were informed taltng little Interest in the Senatorship | that the pairing made for Saturday @ad contest. In consequence the Tammany been abrogated, Jegation came up from New York in Republicans in Majority. @ sadly depleted array this morning. When the legislators ,assembl Tt appears that on account of a mis-| joint session at noon it was found understanding as to an agreement be-| practically all the Republican tween Majority Leader Smith and Mi-|blymen and nearty all the Repu! | nortty Leader Merritt of the Assembly | Senators were in their seats, Of | c side there were not more an bal do: BRITISH OFICIAL AND 26 WITH HIM The Sheehan strength on joint ‘dellot was only #4 votes. The Insurgents wero Staniforth Smith, Administras) ers cannot be descrited | There were two courses open on hand with 27 votes, a total Demo. tor in New Guinea, Slain Democrats, One was to try tom crate vote of 71. The Republicans were In shape te de- liver 64 or 65 votes to Depew and this number would hi been sufficient for 4 mafority of all the votes cast. The feelings of Assemblyman pest vote by filibustering tacties untit ’ | =} tiny Del ibers could reach Al A on Exploring Trip. ,ppeal to tha Son —_—- course was followed la ee rit was | ZANE, Australia, Feb, 20 nocrats ware ane J was received to iy pression that q Jdivision of the Now G were stil patred. With this under |the massacre standing he permitted a compre Br administrator of Papua, two 1 scurried around und got a | white nd a party of natives t nuober of Republicans to refrain }invabitan nterior for - ve nith, accompanied by the officers, a native poles ail 1g on cat \ he vote had been announced ra, le Mo| t apital ! n Leader Merritt said: Papua, 8 last t f , a nvert Of the mie ' 1 to ente irin, j Jiast 1 from on | ‘1 ue ' . vind themselves: tn | searchers were sent gut, and ches e|wa Many of th led to return r ne long distam | ‘Ten natives accompanied Smit to be on Maal. uw ari ow lin y n why the Demos were killed by natives A ieee = 1 ‘ y clove to-day, ena A - M if we have a repetition sal AEROPLANE CIRCLES LINER. ”\: right nore «Ohne 4 Senator elected," \tenn ax Piles Around the Cleve. haa res Tas Vassengers Watch ) 4. ee from Merrit } whe K-Ameriea 1 " nade to foree anotty 7 1} e ¢ & fa ed combiia- ie . neing rriva nts and Republicans, | ¢ t sly t nan Sw who was the jt ? rr " a ‘ ator the scheme sprung three @ the vessel wa ering ty ‘ for such a coalition, @gs) # ; gagneux ina Bleriot| manded ail on the motion to f the 1 three i! to-morrow, : an and low however, refuse@™ta (4 MK n board flocked , t riicans even on*thte | a e decks @ watehed t 1 with the regulars in) @ ea Hjournment . | , iced Martin | Fire tn exent Neotel | re evelt's Congressional ‘ise! | his ond for the United” vat > fatled change (a A nator Burd 1 Hollman and Hoyt. 1 ; ort him, ‘ «| . aul : 4 n at a meeting today | } s errr, jtiscused Mr Littieron's candiiaey, aie le wha sy Ideckled that It would not be poltey gil dese Tate og, Mena Ww etiead this time to rally to bis supper. 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