The evening world. Newspaper, April 27, 1911, Page 4

TRACES $1,750,000 NSE FRAD | VARELESS PROFITS | INGUSTOMS, ETS TO COL WLSON $75,000 REWARD Company Took in $3,000,000 | Treasury jee J. for 153,000 Shares, Says Prosecutor. SPENT ONLY $400,000. Many Company Present as Trial Gets Under Way. Women Investors inj;Some of Those in fn what ts the first big feht ever made by the United States Government | for the Government, and the epon @ big stock promoter company, G. | bation -of his auperiors i the HL. Dorr, Assistant United States Dis- | earned J.C, Cummings, triet-Attorney, to-day stated to Judge Martin and a jury tn the United States | District Court the facts upon which the Government relies to prove that © ‘Wiiaon and his six assistants sold stock to 28,000 persons in all parts of the country under false pretenses. Briefly, the Government charged to-| It is an int day that the company maintained its! increases mad plant for three years at @ loss of $175. 4. | goods of at least't during which time it sold thousands o! shares upon the pretense that it was) j_, @-money-making concern. Between 75,0 ant York office, for having ntpped bud & new method of Custome the matter, a fact that the value William Loeb and mings pataeiheaiiees | Before Goods Arrive. | | ALL ARE REAPPRAISED. | | Latest, Scheme Were Concerned in Sleeper Trunk Frauds. 110,000 {mn cash Treasury agent In charge of the New ©, | f2vented by American dresemakers. No | , aan. i Imip Gtate Hospital for the last four arrests were made in conneation with | yous the Appratsors’ Btores through @ care- ) ' | ful revaluation ofthe foreign goode. fo acore dresemak- rs, not an appeal has been taken, Surveyor of son H. Henry superine THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, APRIL 27 | Skipper Who Has Sailed 3,000,000 Miles in 43 Years, and His Wife NURSE LOSES FOOT | | SAVING CRAZY MAN WHO SEEKS DEATH ;Make Attendant of Central Islip Hospital Drags Patient From Railroad Tracks, | | | | | . Cum-; CAUGHT — HIMSELF. j Maniac Only Slightly Bruised | | Because of Kerrigan's Heroic | ‘ | Leap Before Train. | | appro- reward human monsters that the oscasion of epectal ane being @ hero is worth chronicling. DD CAPT HARRASOWITZ gsialeon | 1fis name x Patrick J, Kerrigan, a robust son of Prin of thtrty-five years, who has been ettached to the Central in the fraud, ward of the hospital building with a| crushed rigttt foot and the certain pros- pect @head of lowing at least a portion of the member. When the Long iwiand train New York City readied Central L, L, yesterday at 12.08 P. M,, four new ont of of the HE HAS SAILED 3,000,000 MILES, AS THE SUBRULER OF U. 8. SENATE from Talip, Col. Wizard of Figures The: tended the programme * y which the new patients from Bellevue Hospital were Betore the attorneys got under way @) method of cheating the Government unioaded in the care of Dr. Ohild and @mall young man dropped into a seat, was folled. om the iegal firing line. He will do to How the Fraud Wae Worked. | four nurses. One of the patients was a 1 dill oa staat ‘ muscular young man of about 145 » for he was John P, Fer ere isan Associated P: a ch . =: , 4 fy | 5 expert accountant for the Depar | trom W. ahaa with inte at the Skipper Celebrates Silver Wed- Senator Confined to His Home) "nit Jumped Before Train. of Justice, He delved into the mysteries | work of the New York Customs quthor-| ,. r : . ze | ao th ° of ‘Mores, the Hoinse bunke and. tho | itee ee" ding and 200th Passage With | in Washington and Friends |, After ‘pe train mutiet out of te ote: Chicago bank books of John K. Walsn.| — “Secret agents of the custome aer- wah a t vf 33 ". the railroad crossing Leading officials regard him as the| vice have @iscovered © system of One Ship. Are Apprehensive. SHteacreeet iain caakudianwe tren Syerver ve mawere +. Maxey, Hood smuggling expensive mowna and | ja #iding. The muscular patient man- for @ quarter of a century as the F women's clothing from Paris witch cence leaehvinveelige out ot tie 1dna Ot the eral wizard of figures. Proménen to approach in magnitude | Capt Atert Harrasowitz af the North | WASHINGTON, Aprit 2.—On eccount | wagon and, hotly pursued by Kerrigan, Beveral hundred other interested per-| the famous sleeperstrunk frauda Vloyd liner Koran Louise, | of ill health Senator Frye of Maine to- | risied in tthe direction of the train. He wons, among them many girls and} Undervaluations and = fraudulent | who has sailed three million miles of |day tendered to the Vice-Presicont hig|trew himself directly across the rails women who had bought stock in t manifests are sad to be the means |oceun, arrived in port with his shtp| resignation an dent pro tempore} Within ten feet of the end of a freight] company, filled the court-room, Fol-| the suspected ones have tset to | to-day prepared for the busiest netween! or the Senate. ‘The se car moving toward | lowing the opening statement, in which | carry on thelr work. Evidence in the | sailings of his career, Simultaneously, | OF (h@ Senate. The Senator is confined | “p6 witnesses declare that Kerrigan it was charged that the public put] posession of the Government tends | he ix going to celebrate his silver wed-| 0 M# Apartment and his friends, be-| 414 not hesitate an instant. He ran out $2,000,009 into the company, of which} to indicate that some of the amug- |ding and his 20th passage as skipper |C2Use of his advanced age, are appze-| on the tracks, seized the prostrate man All except $40,000 was taken for the] glers convicted and fined in the [of the Koenigin Luise hensive, by the collar of this coat and then with Personal use of the defendants, the| trunk frauds are the leading epirits | Coming into port, the ship was dressed | It is Probable that Senator Gallinger | his right hand grasping a high rung of actual taking of testimony began, Henry A. Wise, United States Dis- trict-Attorney, was in court to start (he fight. G. H. Dr, Abol L Smith and Robert H. Stephenson were his marshals. John B. Stanchield, for t defense, began the proveediues by moving to quash the ind!ctment on six- in the new scheme.” “LT cannot discuss this matter informing you that I have no ledge of any raids being ma day,” said Mr, Cummings to an ing World reporter. “My work matter is all done, What new of the box off the the tron ladder at the managed to yank the maniac cessful in j with bunting in honor o beyond | and his frau, as war t will succeed him Mr. Fry: # President pro tem. Ehty-one years old, | Cat tracks the skipp e Kron Prinzes- | who is Know-/ain Cecolie, whlch carried into port | laat year suffered an accident to his foot But he was not su de to-| Frau Harrascwitz, There will be a big; Which resulted in an al n that res getting out of danger himaeit, Even-| banquet at the Hotel Astor Saturday | fused to yteld to medical treatment. ‘Phe | tight foot was ground under the in this! night and another banquet aboard the| injury has joned him much worr The mantac w&s held from rep device | Koonigin Luise on Monday. and interfered with bis getting around, | 18 attempt at suicide, while his brat of getting around the laws will be tn-| Capt. Hohemann of the Cecelie, on! While he is sald by his physicians to pe | were dressed by Dr. Child. The injuries teen grounds. vented by the dressmakers for next) which Frau Harrasowlte crossed, is recovering rapidly now, tt was deemed|to Kerrigan were more serious and he Judge Martjn overruled the motion to] year remains for us to find out." Skipper Harrasowitz's oldest friend, best by his friends that he lighten his| Was taken to the hospital, quash upon All of the grounds stated) One of Mr, Cummings's superiors! They galled before the maat in 1872 on responsibilities as much as possible. No Reward for Hero. after a legal fight into which Bourke] explained the methods used during the the wind-Jammer Marco Polo, whish For practically seven years Mr, Frye| “Kerrigan is @ real hero," said Dr Cockran Injected the remark: present apring sea “These drexsmakers planned clever scheme, In Parts they #o to the merchants and make “Lf a man gives you $100 change for $0 he i# not defrauding you.” Mr, Dorr then stated the case for the nas follows was in the passenger carrying service. Capt. Harrasowits is fifty-seven years old and has been a sallor since he was fourteen. He has been thirty years an Hyman, Superintendent of to an Evening World re “There no reward tn sight ruled over the Senate, taking the gavel|M. B on the death of Vice-President Hobart | hospital, and again wielding it when Col, Roose- a very would Government to the jury. 8 cash | oftcer in the service Ne North Ger-{Velt left the office to become President | for him in saving the if vy “The cardinal point in this case,” aid |D&YMent of one-third or one-fourth of man Lioyd Line, six tp-/on the death of Mr. McKinley, ite has He 7 at x ern ta that the ndants | elr value, Then when they took the! per, Ho has travelle been # member of the Senate since 188i his own 4 ptated that the only stock that was be- |€00ds they would get bills which on tance equal to twenty-seven voyages and occupied a seat in the House for rescue. J am sorry that s “ mM | their face showed only the remaining to the moon. several terms before Laat date, way I can reward Kerrigan beyo: ing sold was stock issued by the c payment. These bills would be taken 9 There is no more popular skipper sall- enator Frye ommunication was) telling you the facts of e, and pany, and that the muney paid for i]t. United states Consul and he would !"8 Ships to-day than Capt. Harraso- laid bfore the Senate to-day but no| asking that your praise of his brave act was to be used for the purposes of the witt, and the banquet that will be ten, certify them action was taken. nted. company." Th | dered to him and his bride of a quar- : © Goods Divided Up. licen Gentury Naa’ bean arranged: be ————— ————-.—_— ne face of this, he added, they century has been arranged by the Ce ee ed at the money in| “Knowing that tt in a rule to accom: | passengers who mailed with him on ROBIN CRASH CRAZES. O’DONOHUE- TAYLOR. has : ee tga oat Kea thEE thee ote |modate the travelling public in New) many voyages. He will return the ee pocket je churged tha of: | v0 6 eral - wy urtesy aboard his own ship. ero ficers increased the price of steak whil ¥ rk to appraise incoming goods up t ‘As an acknowledgment of the high Sister and Drother of Young Cou a value of $500 upon operating at a loss to suggest the idea | of earnings. * $ he lost in the| The maria 1 ely at the undervaluation divided up| will be ed to take pack | 4 i) y “We are not proecuting a eorpora- | 000" ony, aranibd On yare Het | Farah Ketcham, “ftty- ‘one years of age, | Taylor, to Mr. Joseph J. O'Donohu: tion,” he remark MOE UE QUATTOL'IA'| "0 inet cach BueAe wih ane pid EA a ja widow liv on the top floor of an| son of Mr. and Mrs. Jose Sith officers Of a corporation who be- | su ey re a i [apartment house at No. 2 West One! hue, both of thin city, will Hegipiny tr |Apae “ rears : a segs the N |BRAVEST MAN MOBBED Hundred and Twenty-fifth street, went|in the Church of the Ii he oMicers of the company formed, | VOT amen had aviose of ehelr procedure insane to-day. She was tal : to-day, Miss Taylor's on Agency, which got a contract to r- ‘ve|#medn early in Maroh on the St. Paul, Bellevue O'Donohue will act as his brother's best psehaglagy and in the sane week another lot came| Traffic Police Mock at Plight Until) "y man. ) per cent. f. « sola, the profits ; A ‘ Neighbors heard strange noises in her| pny ushers will be Mesers, Alfred ¢owhich we: * In ae agi 4 bey t tol — Fugitive Hides Straw Hat in apartment early today, and oatied in| yackay, M O'Dononue, J, wimer | We uN ker, as agent of th eit carpe tiscl oh shisha Sree Fr Rapid evator. Policeman Smith of the One Hundrede | O’ponohue and John J. O'Donohue ane arene ation fused to appraise the goods, notwith- | ‘A slevator, and Twenty-titth street station, who| The wedding will be followed by a The Government will show the course |St#nding the invotces certified by the} he pravest man tn New York to-day ;stmmoned en ambulance. Mrs. Ketcham | breakfast at the home of the bride's of 82,000 out of 151,000 shares of preferrea | eT! Consul in Paris, All the! found his courage oozing when he| was formerly in business on One Hun-| mother, No. 359° East Elghty-Arth stock and of 7 shares of treasury |{¥Aks Were sent to the Appraisers’ | qaphed inte the New York Life Butld- | dred and Twenty-fifth street with her | street. A tou & stock. 4 or it, said Mr, Dorr, the o1ce Stores, Sinee then the value of the | ing, No. M6 Broadway, At his heels was | husband. She gave it up when he dled | directly afte Tat tan the p $8,000,000. Of ..ty | BOOMS Has been marked up from % to 49 q pooting mob. Girls vied with men to | last December, She t# understood to | Seam they put $49,000. In the business ang |Per cent, and in not @ single Instance | pehold the bravest man, Boys whistle | have had a considerable sum tn the awananakoa of Honolulu is the rest In thelr pocketa, : as the n @ mrokaet snade {an alr tit was popular years ago, en- | Northern Bank A at the Hotel Belmont, she is a relative The attorney related the Individuat || Upon payment of the duty upon the | tied, “Wiere Did You Get That Hat?” aaa wee « of former Queen Liluokalani, and is the, company, was chiefly re goods have in each Instance bee. re- | rormation of the bullding on the ground as ets een 8 John | purope on the George Washington next forthe stock sales and was the chist [owed by the Government, | Some cl floor reading until he became aware |De Keven Bowen, Gaughier of Mre, Led- | @huraday. ne pales and was the chief! the goods taken to the Appraisers’) that he wae th ity ep bee + Mra eh Mreeao ot the proceeda, Huld Moe coder: | Stores was found to have been proper: | that some warew wore Mince Mn [Robert H. Means appeared in police Muatoal Not The lawyer said that from time to Valued, but these instances were | \. Td his paper and put it |Court here yesterday against Armoda (From the Washington Star.) time Wilson returned to the company |fe¥ and far between. Five boats had | (;, ily ty cake it mat awa, |Albine, whom they charged with “The professor says that music owes tion of his profits for which he} $t In when the number of incoming f on his jen. Then ig {costing and insulting them on Lake} a great deal to Rosst said the young k at half its market price, re. |@ressmakers with goods valued around jooked at his watch, and as the grinning | Shore Drive. Mrs. Bowen testified that) woman, “What's Rossini?’ turning only 80 much 8 Would keep] *b0Ut $00 suddenly ceased. The Gov= | faces inorensed about him hee walked {the man had taken hold of her arm.| ‘“That,” replied Mr. Cumrox, ‘1s prob- he goose t laid the golden | ernment officials declare that there must | into Rreadwas. ‘ e'\ He was fined $75 on two charg y Italian for ‘rosin.’ have been some cabling n the inte 1 He walked back amd forta for a couple ur ©. Pyke, of Jersey City, was | V4 js they wet the full duty | of blocky and the crowd i) ie s the opening witness of tho| they are sutisfled, these Government of- | Then trafle policemen crushed through | a jaa a _ =e Ho was transfer clerk for the| !clals | the mou | Ww Company during the > Wot's tt all about ey growled s pvered by the indictment -; U | The man was pointed out and the on 1 Elghteen Elusive Books. BANK WRECKER ROBIN’S | policomen Kuffawedd and seturned to the | 9 ; Mr, Pyke identified the various books SENTENCE PO POSTPONED. roadways Che TAN, SieKes., Sel ples | of the company which contained records butiding and at t for an elevator of all stock Issues and transfers made { EAttomne y Tells Court He} “qu haan Nee en a, | luring the period covered ty the G : Bie a en es eae hee EST. om an 1820 } nment's chars Me sn a he had Has for Prisoner as whisked the fugitive skyward ack books P - qh nimotion Was occasioned by the has oedsa th’ Saseey OL he wen the Sup! urt for sentence on | Bun raes., 9.00 /51n sts, #00) Moon wlage,, 4.81 | eee | sked by Robert W. Stephenson, As. the charge of «rand larceny, to which | THE TIDE: stant Distriet orney pleaded guilty some time ago, Dis | Dozen Each Yes; I had them there up to a week trict-Attorney Whitman told efore t Q. Wher ‘and Jury met did you find th Seabury that a witness Rovin was being aka? A mene beens ne Sx ihe Orie his motion sentence was postponed | Island station, se until June 1, Robin's sister, Dr, Robin- ’ tch, Was present Resins eter AL Neat for)“ Bamuel J. Goldsmith, Robin's counsel, Ho testifi eiad ih court all| MAde no objection to the postpone ent, of the van sessed, showing | DUt sald ren © whould not be delayed longer than June 1, the stock issues and transfers of the De Forest Comp There we: 1 au enty of them. f the stock tssued | by him for f orn Agent| had dlea 4 when Mrs, Parker; he suid, was @ent in blank to| Was avi Lucien L, Wallace at the New York} @—Did you se office, Dok In the The witness did not recall having | en June issued ANY Luited soon in excaunge tor | Lie Fei De Forest stock, buts he thourht AYos such exchanges een made in Q.—And after that New York office they disappear? There was an intimation that the| A.~ letter preas books which feld the copies! F of letters written by Pypident Wilson | was taken uetil to-morrow do not remember, the piers, | would sail for Amerioa with their mod- before the Grand Jury the president's letter r course of business (That was the day of = lowing this testimony adjourment they ding. Wildr ndunts at We of Miss Rose regard in which the Will Be At this able navigator company holds | and commander he} Broofing over money 20 | .27 10 12 12 ||| Exes Selected Fresh. . Butter-—rines: Creamery—per Ib. , Corn—Noreca—Chotee—No, 2 Cans... Peas—Extra quality—Early June No. 2 Cans Tomatoes—Noreca—Extra Jersey--No. 3 Can Olive Oil—Rising Sun—French—Qe. Cant 90c Large bot., 65¢3; Small bot., 35¢ Olives—Manzanilla Stuffed—Small bortle...... 1,10 Peaches or Apricots—Extra Calif. No. 234 Cans...2,25 Pineapple-—Hewelian Siiced—No. 214 Cane. . 2.78 Coffee—Plantation—smooth, fine flavor—per Ib... 188 hers used On 1.10 1.40 1.35 Hale’s i] “ Honey ot fra and Tar | Gaynor | 10 -20 25 +25 vpsttnar £ JAAS: t., Corner Hoyt, Coug hs ana a eolds octet ' date aid i | chambers Bt. et tad St, BiOOKLYN srores nay ton | very 1911 SON OF OIL MAN SANE, SAYS WIFE W ANNULMENT Mrs. Chapman-Pierce Seeks .o Prevent Trial Outside New York County. The auit for the annulment of marriage of Roy BE. Plerce, Henry Clay Pierce, one of the biggest the |men in the Standard Ol! combination, to Betsy Faulkner Chapman in Novem- ber, last year, was called before Justice Morschauser in the Supreme Court in White Plains to-day, James MR. Hickey, of counsel for Mrs, Pyerca, moved for a change of venue. Arcument on the motion was deferred until a week from to-morrow. Mrs. Plerce's answer to the suit, ber skle the allegation that Pierce was per- fectly sane. and competent when ho married her, in that he is a resident of | New York County and always tias been, and that the case should be tried there, The suit is brought by County Judge A, P. Seager, acting as his guardian and next friend, . Coupsel for Judge Seager said that young Plerce was insane and is still in- sane, He ts twenty-eight years old, his counsel said, but is not now competent to manage the millions of dollars whtch he will inherit or to manage his per- sonal affairs. Mra. Plerce was in court with Mr, Hickey, looking her prettiest, Wh the statement of her husband's insan- {ty was made she shook her head in violent disagreement. “This young couple were married Nov, 14 last,” said Mr. Hickey. ‘Mr. jerce Was not insane then, He made sane and careful plans for his maintenance and for the tem- wife's porary concealment of the marriage “When he owned up to his fa he was practicaliy’pat tn confinement 1 know that an a Was made t min the ¢ B, MeDonal tarium at Central Valley in Orange County, but he was not accepted as a pat Dr. McDonald 4 not a 1 have tried to see ers, but they have not the State Lunacy © “We do not Ino ° Mr. Plerce is now. He may la; may be anywhe remains that this couple were residents of Westchester or Orange niles, but have both of them always resided in New York County Mrs, Pier from first hu ton, several years ago der Bet beauty pro t men rope. Young P: of the Rot her around Pa and y he e met her when o: Was tagging after Se Oppose Visit of Amertoann, AN, April 2.—A group of manus Saxony has started a presa the com! representat! ho plan to laim that use oF detri make to the -|CUT THIS our| A %e Gold C Chain FREE. FRIDAY AND SATURDAY DR, JOHN HOGAN, Fornierly of furion 5.0 Gold ‘eglass on Spestucte, including chain fore «00 without coupon, one 15 West 23rd Street. You will be surprised and delighted with the beauciful plumes ovelty effects We cas sanky trey jour OLD feathers, and. at a te oF TEAL new Teathon Your old vines an ca ean be built into OR FRENCH PLU WwiLLows FEATHER REPAIRING, ARROE STOLE, PRONE rote, 260 W. 125th St. “i! Pate on of Do | April “Classified” Clearance Sales Friday and Saturday | One Opportunity That Occurs Only the Last Two Days of Each Month. 116 Misses’ Tailored Suits 14, 16, 18 YEARS | MIXED TWEEDS AND LIGHT | WEIGHT WORSTEDS-NAVY AND » BLACK SERGES | Regular Prices Were | $22.50, 24.50, 25.00. } Atthe 107 Women’s Tailored Suits At the HIGH CLASS WORSTEDS AND LOD: | 4.4), 0P° a DON TWEEDS-FRENCH SERGES.. | baat Regular Prices Were | . $28.00, 35.00, 39.50 | $22.50 52 Original Model At the and Sample Suits | “Cinssitiea® Regular Prices Were $58.00 to 78.00 Dress “Classified” Clearance Extraordinary 185 French Foulard $37.50 Atthe Ine House and Street Dresses | ¢).2o\{0a" ALL STYLES AND SIZES, Price, Regularly Sold from | $25.00 to $35.00. Ie 195 Hand Made and Hand _ | Embroidered Waists_ | TRIMMED WITH R HIGH AND LOW NE fe. | Regular Prices $15.00, 18.00, 25.00. John Forsythe wes oi» i | FRIDAY, APRIL 28th 22-24-26 Blankets and Summer Betting «| | HIGH GRADE SUMMER BLANKETS. pair 6.59, 8.00, 8.75 | Values $9.00, $10.50; $12.00 LIGHT WEIGHT DIMITY SPREADS, each 1,75, 2.25, 2.95 SATIN FINISHED SPREADS, each 2.85, 3.73 SATIN FINISHED SCALLOPED SPREADS,with cut corners,each 3,75, 2.25 COMPORTABLES, Figured koline, cotton filled, each 2.00, COMFORTABLES, Plain Bilk, wool dlled. 7.85 HemmedCottonSheets&PillowCases AT GREATLY REDUCED PRICES. Sst. Value $r0.00, each 63x99 72x09 Br x99 90x99 SHEETS : $ 75C each SOC each BOC each 1.00 each PILLOW CASES = 45x38!) 216 each 59x 38's 236 each These measurements are beford hemming. 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