The evening world. Newspaper, March 22, 1911, Page 4

SEE GANGSTERS SEE Chase Since Last August for Killing Girl. - OTHER CRIMES CHARGED Is Suspected of Shooting Young Woman and His Rival for Her Affections. Angst Spanish, tnsolently mulien and the angry glare of a cornered ra eyes. stood up in General Sessions vurder, Back of the rail a score of other young men with bad faces watched Johnny Spanish's first orderly confiict | with the law, Johnay Spanish, son of an Italian father and a, Spa: the personification af the informal po: Nice description of him: “A sneak and & coward, who never shot a man who Was armed or singly robbed a man un-| der @ years of age; who wouldn't dare show his face on Tenth avenue for fear somebody born in the United Stu would take his gun away and jam tt down his throat.” None the less, the police believe Johnny Spanish guilty of at least three murders and uncounted robberies. Captain of a Gang. The charge for which Johnny Spanian ‘as indicted and arrested ls the murde: of Sadie Rothen of No. 23 Forsyth street ‘ast August. He was a captain of ruf flans—the most notorious, reckless « wicked since the days of Monk East- man, Paul Kelly and Yake-Yaae lrady At the head of his particular band o thugs ne wns leading a revolver charge on the crew of Hyman Benjamin, a lexs- @r leader. One of the shots struck Sadie Kiothen ax she was fleeing into her thome, The police believe that be bul et was from the gun of Johnny Span. eh, At any rate he ran away and the de tectives hunted for him for many montis in many cities In vain. After he had gone some of his followers, who would not have dared talk were he in town, began to teil things: Beatrice Ka n was found dying on a Jonely road near Maspeth last summer. She had long been a friend of Johnny fpanish. She had gone to Maspeth with him to attend a frolic of a band of| Brown toughs. She lived long enough to murmur that Johnny ha nothing to do with the shooting and was not in sight at the time, The police at the t got hold of the name of "Kid Dropper,”’ a nickname he had earned for hig prowess in “dropping” his victims and foes with knife, gun and slungshot. Killed In Vengeance. But Kid Dropper was not to be found for a week, Then he was found dead. | He had been shot. ‘There was no trace of the man who had shot him. The po- lice assumed that he had been killed tn Vengeance for the death of Beatrice Kaplan From the gossip they picked up after Johnny Spanish went away they now | believe Johnny erently. Kid Dropper was sh's rival for the earnings pa (and incidentally the affections) of Bea- trice. Johnny Spanish suspected tham. And as former followers put it, “They both got theirs.” Four Central Office detectives were pm to work @ week ago on an under- world rumor that Johnny Spanish w deck from his Western hiding place ani was lving “under cover in Brooklyn They were Glidden, Bloom, Driver and Caputo, none of chem men known to him | Pre ht, though they had studied his {1 features until ¢ vy knew him weil. ‘hay found him. Didn't Fight | ong, And as he was stepping from a Graham avenue car a nues, Maspeth, they crowded around him, Just as he and his compantons had frequently crowded around @ man from whom they meant to steal a pocket- | book, and closed tn on him, He fought |‘ only for a minute. “Oh, well,” he said relaxing when he looked them over, “if there's four of you, It's no use. “Have you got @ gun, Johnny?” asked Glidden, Na Vd take @ pinch as easy as this if I had a gun? I'd croaked one or two of youse atid croak myself too." When he was arraigned in G ay and heard himself accused of er, looked | 93 by four m to the Tombs th was one of thi Consolidated Gas and » Reading and New York Central leading, scored fractional advances, 1 he first hour the e of trading simmered down per- y and @ qulet tone ruled in the After midday tradin| sif_led b yan almost t of note deve ed for the weakness « in which harmor fn Missourt Pacific had # list dragged to abou Losses were unimportant at the finish. eS Fi os - & eS “pee FF FETE rand and Columbia ave-| > * he gneered. “Do you think | LE a ec ra ent AOL LIEELLCE IE PLEO RL LLL I . b era! Sessions and Clerk Cowing read the tn- dictunent charging him with murder, the pale sear which runs up from the left wide of his mouth across his cheek and ends in @ erinkly hole turned purple for | || a minute owed, at Girl Will Get Lawyer, “Tm « 1 to a girl I know who will get the right swell mouth beat lawyer) for me,” he said. “Only it wou't be Abe Levy. He's the guy that wot Benjamin ne Killing Ne same gir © of this being put on mc sek 1 aMdav Johnny Spanieh's tnd stated th © was in ave- hb ts back ed w rect was raid r Saturday night The yurished revolvers and took $200 Vex ne tll and escaped, Sam Green- who was arrested with Johnny jah, is being investigated in re sect of this hold-up. ‘They have already the word of four _Acker,Merrall« Cond EST. Company 1820 Minimum Cost for High Quality Tapioca—A. M. & C, Pearl Ib. pkge... Asparagus~A: M. & C, Mammoth White C: fh No. 244 cans ‘ 5 M. & C, Callfornia Green, 2.50 22 No. | cans Stringless Beans—Noreca Extra—No, Asparagus Tips~A, Fancy Unpeeled Apricots or Peaches A.M. & C,, Home Made—t Ib. fars......... 2.85 .25 Fania cirisani AS Noreca, California— No, 244 Can8......00 2.25 .20 Pineapple A.M. &¢ GTth At, & Oth Ay, 2d St. & Ammterd | Daughter of Ambassador Reid |\And Son-in-Law Who Sailed To-Da IHNNY SPANISH HELD AS SLAYER Thug Leader Caught After { 4 MRS AND HON. Jorn HOWARD I) n of the subway FOR CORONATION “OFF IN LUSITANIA WALL STREET. ee Ambassador Reid and Party Return to England—Klaw Off to See Frohman, cabin of the Lusitania, ed to-day, Was crowded with seagoers who plan to attend the cor- tion of King George V. Ambassador vitelaw Reid, Mra Rela and their son-in-law and daughter, Mr, and Mre. John Ward, were among the voyagers. Ambassador Reld said he had come home for the express purpose of at- tending the wedding of his son, Ogden Mills Reid. Other passengers were Lady Sarah Wilson and her friend, Mrs. William B, Leeds, witow of the tin plate king, Mare Klaw and Dr, Yamei Kin, the famous Chinese woman doctor, Dr, Kin said that the women of China were tn no danger of adopting the hobble or the harem skirt, Mr. Klaw said that he was hurrying | across the water for a forty-eight-hour talk with Charles Frohman. He will return on the Lusitania, Concerning | ticket speculators, he said it was the fault of the Magistrates that they were not suppressed under the new law. He said his organization did not encourage them, The managers, he said, were further hampered tn dealing with them for the reason that Commissioner Cropsey had taken away thetr special policemen. “The Magistrates,” said Mr. Klaw, “will not punish them for insulting our patrons, and without policemen we are help} PEKING, March 2.—The rumors eu | rent in St. Petersburg and elsewhere to the effect that Korostovets, the Russian Minister to China, had been murdered 4m this city are unfounded. M. Korosto. vets 1s enjoying good helath. Pg it Dozen Each 10 3.50 .30 1.25.11 2.75 Broadway @ 1024 St, Ay. 125th Mt. @ 7th Ay, 445 Fulton St., Cor, Hoyt, ae MOTHER'S LETTER y) sommes REVEALS DIVORCE PLOT IN COURT She Appeals to Judge to Save Son From Marriage W Complainant. h CASE IS THROWN OUT. Young Architect Admits He In- tended to Make Mrs. Fish His Wife. The wo-called “bargain day” divorce court was thrown into a turmotl to- day during the trial of a sult brought u by Mra. Sarah Mish, a stoutly bullt young woman with blonde hatr, against her husband, Woolf Fish Justice Glegerich, presiding, had re- ceived a letter from the mother of Mrs. Fish’s chief witness, in which {complaint was made teat there was | collusion in the case. As soon an the letter was shown, H. ©. Patterson, counsel for Mra. Fish, asked to with- draw, and there was the liveliest com- motion among all the persons inter- exted, Justice Glegerich would not permit the lawyer to withdraw, but entertained a motion to dismiss the complaint Here is the letter that caused ali the rumpus Says Her Boy Is the Dupe. Honorable Judge Glegerich—I un- derstand the divorce case coms menced by Sarah Fish against her husband will be before you, Honor- able Judge, to-day. I am the mother of Louis A. Shetnart, who is the witness for her, and she only wants to get the divorce to marry my boy, which was all fixed up between her and her husband. My boy Is very young and these people have done this, and are drivin m crazy to marry her, who has already got lots of things from him when she was yet living with her husband. Do not break a mother’s heart by allowing ha trick, I could write @ whole lot more how they tricked my boy, and my heart bleeds when 1 think of it. But I don’t think they Will be able to trick you, Honor- able Judge. I have spoken to my boy about this and argued with him, but ft was all no good, as he said he could not help it, and was going to marry her. And he has even left me his home and goes with this woman. Please do what you can for a broken-hearted mother. ay God biess you. His dé Mrs, F. SHEINART, Son Confronted With Letter. It waw not until Sheinart was called to the stand that the letter was brought out. Justice Glegerich permitted the young man, who said he was an archi- tect and lved at No. 14% Bryant ave- COPYRE SSeS SS ee THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 1911. _ GANG LEADER CAUGHT AFTER { | nue, the Bronx, to tell how he had traced Mrs. Fish's husband to @ hotel in Third avenue, and then saw bim seantily clad in a room with ® woman, Mrs. Fish relied on Shelnart's testi- “With my alster,” reptied Sheinart. “Will you examine this letter and tell me whether it # in your mothers hand- writing?” Sheinart, dark and well dressed, seemed much surprised when the Ju tice gav ‘That {s not my mother’s writing,” he anawered finally. “Is it true that you Intend to marry Mrs. Fish, provided she secures @ di- vorce?” “ele think-I don't know," stammered rt Bhi excited and was on his feet in an In- stant, “I withdraw, Your Honor; I don't want to be mixed up in any case like this," he fairly shouted. “I knew not ing of this affair.” “twill w you to Move for continuance,” s Justice Gle then move dls. h. to discontinue the * gaid Patterson promptly That {9 granted,” returned Justice TOTTI] BARGAINS NOW | yur CREGIT® Ie oon WEME Our “Totally Different” Way Insures “Rest Values Now In Faster Styles at Easter Prices. ‘Sul In enn SALGD.98 tf BA IN-T.SPARE.. 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