The evening world. Newspaper, May 12, 1911, Page 1

STEAMSHIP WRECKED BY CRASH; ALL SA ee eaaal MYSTERY IN DEATH OF CITY RECORD ‘PRINT. — — WEATHER-Fair to SEE PAGE 2 RACE RESULTS AND ENTRIES jaturday. Che " Circulation Books Open to All.’ | PRICE ONE OENT. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, “MAY bain’ “4 im? by The Prose Publishiag The New Tork | wert Na). ‘12, 1911. 24 P FATAL WOUND | NOT LIKE A SUICIDE SHOT Kilfing of Dr. Latson in Riv- erside Drive Apartment Shrouded in Mystery. MURDER, MOTHER SAYS. Coroner’s Physician Body Shows No Trace of Powder Marks. | : | Says a : : Mystic teaching and the unysual de- | somes of Miss Alta Marherka for Dr . RC. Latson, whose dead body was | eal in the library of his home 600 Riverside Drive, with a dyllet hole through the head, came to de the chief feature of the investigations made by the police and Coroner Fetn- | berg intg what both firmly believed + have beep a clear case of suicida Dr. Lataon's body! was found late last night But among all of tho stories of In- diam mysticism, of theosophy and of strange loves, there cawe the state- ment # .m the mother of the dead doc- d tor, Birs. Gertrude Latson, of No. 1 Bradhurst avenue, that she bvelleved her gon had beep murdered. Neyond the bare statement of the mother, th ckme no fact to indicate ¢hat a crime had been committed. AM autopsy was perform body by Coroner's Physician who says that the fatal wound was at an etigle of the jaw outside the area usually found In les by shooting No Powder Marks on Fle. Another significant to Dr. O'Hanion, was the absence of powder marks at the mouth of the wound, which would be present if the revolver were held close to the flesh. There will be a further microscopic ex- marks there was con- the wound was Jones, the Police Department, tion of the wound to-day & feature, according amination for powder Dr. O'Hanlon satd ‘able doubt whet self-infl pistol expert of t will make an exam this afternoon. Miss Marherka, who lives with the family of John Washington, at No, W671 Broadway, to-day told her story to an Evening World reporter. She had told the Coroner that she loved the doctor—that he was her “Gourah,” or man-god, and that death did not exist. She came into the parlor of the Wash- ington home clad in a long, loose morn- ‘ ing gown of blue. A turquoise necklace hung about her neck. Her dark hair was parted in the middle and hung ‘loosely about her si She looked at interviewe na patr of brown ers, eyes that one xiven to the poetic might describe as soulful Glad to Make Statement. “Lam a Russian Jewess,” she began. ‘Lam glad to make @ statement to let everybody know all of the facts. I have been secretary to this doctor for six pears, My name is Alta Marherka. Yes- terday 1 was ac office at 1 o'clock, (Continued on Second Page.) ————————————— Es HHMMMAM MMMM MMMM MMMM RRR Many Prisoners Held The person who works at the wrong vocation, lives in the wrong apartment or conducts the wrong kind of enterprise is a PRISONER—a slave t6 conditions that can be reme- died, And there are thousands such captives. But why should there be? Freedom from such bonds was of- fered by the 4,043 World Ads, Printed Yesterday 974 more than the Herald, Times, Sun, Tribune and Press COMBINED: About 8,000 Such Bond-Breakers Will Be Published in Next SUNDAY’S WORLD. orld. 7 Circulation Books Open to Al: WEATHER—F air FINAL hla As AGES —===s PRICE (ONE CEN SCORES TO-DAY BANK PRESIDENT wrmewvo | FOUNDDEADAT CHICAGO— | = BOTTOM OF WELL Friends Think Robert a ver, Also Printer of the City Record, Accidentally Fell In. Steamships- Which Crashed in ‘Fog, Sending Ward Liner to the Bottom Batterles—Richie Ames and Wilson. and Kilng; AT BROOKLYN. ST. LOUIS— 40 cal BROOKLYN— | 106 Batteries—<Giolden and and Bergen. it ak 4! nt a Bel! ‘HAD SEEMED WORRIED. | A> BOSTON. CINCINNATI— 0000 Several of His Bills Had Been BOSTON— ; 0030 _— Held Up and Referred to Battertes—Suggs and McLean, and Graham. Prerter Corporation Counsel. AT PHILADELPHIA. | PITTSBURG— j 0002 p PHILADELPHIA— of 0051 Batteries—Steele and Moran. a AMERICAN LEAGUE. AT DETROIT. HIGHLANDERS—- | 4 | Levouver, he 4 of the Lecouver at No, bt Vesey street and | the City Record, was found ¢ morning at te bottom of a ‘country place at Westwood, J. Th body seemingly had been in the wel! | for several hours, ‘The dead man was wealthy. He | president of the First National Ban! Westwood and former president of the Lecouver Trust Company, at No. 31 Broad street. Members of the family contended that death had been the result of an acc! Jcent and that ‘t was nota sufclde. Ne rtheless the Coroner at once started an vestigation ‘The directors of the Westwood Bank stated. that the affairs of the institution were in excellent shape. rinter a tal well on his and Beebe Simon; CHINATOWN SPOILS "CON MEN SAME | WITH ANEAR RIOT DETROIT— | Wong Fook Lets Out a Yell That p rings 1,000 to Chase ward d was drowned. He was sixty. ad such excites ait had ol BATTING ORDER. vy the fall he could not have struggled avenue and East Ninth street, upo: 3S, ADMIRAL FARRAOYT ders, yng in the confined space at the bottom ‘There was only a few inches of wate n the well and the body was wedged 1 it, head downward. It ts sald to have been Mr, Lecouver's nabit to rise early every morning and the Dante Hemphill, » Hartze! No, 43 Mott street. Ho waa at work in Binhieace go out to the well and take a drink of ide: cinta Leesa chad NE SECTS Covington. p fresh, cold water, (tye - af f re ter seebae him with a paper sack upon which was and Oennelly | Complaints Had Been Made. British Craft Armed With) Appellate Division Reverses a) written in chinese racters: “Have Mr, Lecouver was the successful bid- der for this year's contract for print- ing the City Record. To get the Job he underbid the Martin Brown Company, mn Word. DETROIT, May ¢ the Yankees got morning with a high tempera- you a registrati Goff in |} Another Ukewise tn Can- he Chinamen have no ttme Guns a Stirring Sight for Decision by Justice Many Notables. 12, up this Suit Against Owner. ture and . sore thr ball He kept fitting which had had @ practical monopoly of — pipet sat him?" asked the as- worse and is now confined to his room tonished nk, oyiny 1 at the Hotel Cadillac threatened with (the “ty Printing for years past His) 1 oxnon, May 12.-The moat Mre. Rello BR, Wile's dog had tay | child-like GS id ahccdes iy a complaint which 1s not yet diagnosed, |SSUres were so low that many practical |v canie exhibition of aviation seen t tte Division of the Su- Two men outside tell me tovhand it| In his absence the team {s tn charge [Printers insisted he would lose money. |e igiang was given to-day under to-day. ‘The learned jus-| to yo boy. of Coach Farrell, Wolter was assigned ‘The “Lecouver staff had not had the auspices the Parllamen red that the dog was no! Outs when ‘ook poked to first base and Charley Hemphill went {experience in handling the city’® pubd- | Herence Committee, Four 1en,| a nuisance, Justice Goff to the con-| Mt to what was coming to right feld lications which the Brown company en- |i, c1uding Claude Grahame-\W) Toute | rare notwith wiaing stood Willams and another The Tigers and the Yankees played |joyed. It was also said that the plant | iiioe the Wrench aviator, fanaa |e hes tment house} tee man had a bade and a dilly the fourth and final game of thelr |was not well adapted for the work At] tn0h 10 tent | | eh Beenae Mra. Wile 1a Ath OPA MOH GY Have you got @ registration certlt series here to-day in the presence of a|any rate heads of vartous city depart- | 'oraine the actor, an badd it No, 1788 Madison nue, in add.jton | 4, ‘aaied man with the badge. crowd of fatr-stzed dimenstons and un-|ments from the Mayor down have re- | Performed i Jous feats designed to) to the dog. Mra. Helen MoCluskey was Me no savvy," said Fook clear sky. Ray Caldwell went to |Peatedly complained of serious errora| show the utility of aeroplanes for war, | a tenant in use. She started up: The law says you must have one ve alab. Jennings’ selection was "Tex" | which crept tnto the Record, Tias state | Four styles of biplanes were used sam eee Wg and fell! weit nave to pinch you," sald the in Covington, a graduate of the Evansyivile | of affairs 1s supposed to have given Mr, |The to jas witnessed by! down the alisaitor z raduaie Orne. EYADS Lecouver considerable worry. His |Premler Asquith, A. J. Balfour, War! wile ¢ s ML ihis laathec ui weenie 6uk-k en Neen Wollee, Bingled friends of tate had remarked hla depres- Beccstary HpWAne, Home. Secretary! the hallway was no the elevated station, whence they 1 ast Delahanty. Daniels sacrificed, | #0". xs Tinaved Naina ‘i Sasltaty he ene - vialieoen we Go : passage north At Fourteenth str as memes Gene | Pave Trevcch, ne eeeees Pune uu) Bane ie he nal Ren hem 4 that the dag | they Kot off the train and held a war Wolter scoring linge Hig aeaatant, ginery, Mae The tests included scouting, des- i |. McCluskey threo yearn to| (Mat 1t would bo a shame to arrest him Hartzell wingled to centre, Hemphill caiieg on the Mayor as soon as he hi patch carrying and bom) throwing by and Mrs, Wile | Md ofered to let Him go for Se, scoring, Hartaell tate. Repeha antl? Mr. Lecouver’s death and stated that | @rahame-White, who dropped a one tat nitations in bar] “Come ‘long to atore and 1 got him Kee on te Mace throw. Cree doubled [in the emergency which had developed | hundered pound missile and olf ballu, Justice Gort decided that a] “it Wonk Pook, a to left, Hartzell scoring. some plans should at once be devised were taken to Aldershot and toh conditions wae «. nul When ¢ wo men ana Chinaman Covington. deflected Gardner's drive | for having the City Record properly and | replies brought back. A that the statute did not run | tt the store something happened to Delehanty, who threw him out at | regularly printed | pla " armed With machis guns at- ave ppeliate Lavis.| unre, Chinam from | Newark wore first, Cree taking third. Johnson sin- | ac! an army dirigible balloon. Ne heya || visiting Chinatown. a lay sae nee the ae < scoring: Thouahy Mis. Astions Guver, In addition to the biplanes od ie ae ie 6, an’ | jams and his companton coming and Delehanty got. Johnson s.| Mr, McMillan satd he had been told| oe monoplanes W © keeping a dow around! with Fook they let out a Chinese | FOUR t Mr. Uecouver had arranged to! manoeuvres were held of an apartment was not @ eam that Fook understood and which |transfer 67 per cent. of the stock in bis] outside this city. J. Ar % perfectly intelligible to all the THEATRE ‘E MANAGERS FIND company to other hands on next Mon-|\no participated, had a urt said that ft was not quite! other Chinamen. | day, However, Supt. O'Connell, of the! vnich he was considerably ether Mrs. MeCluske: med | Apparently the men understood. They BUILDING CODE FAULTY. |ticouver Printing iHouse, at No, Gi{%MIC® Be Was consideradly Ties OL SHE Gime OF ee BOO LARS in oe ee oe Vesey streets said the death of ar Le-| starting for @ fight when f ight wich she have} Willlama headed toward the Crimina ae einer cic for Steal] |couver would not In any way erhbarr from a height of a tow fe used her fall | Courts Bullding by @ devious route Protest Against Prov ina ns for Steel he concern in getting out the ct from the wreckage and was a wali Permittty Jog to lle in the ha 1,000 pe eae ie and wit : Curtain and Offices Over work, He sald that for some time Mr. {from the fleld. | ; Jaa bh an abRseroRntchol arian tha ia te nin wad A . a wcouver’ had been is in such a Mr Salfour flew for s . ates | ¢ rt Joes not amount to more an 1 sounde lke hare ny ng Committee of the Hoard i; he nt Of ake | ended, bans celebs s| tective Pico to the bln 7 n this afternoon friends to hatter when | or) these ad ra Ve the amended @ heard of the death. He added that|; "his colleagues in the Lous 18 INDICTED FOR LYNCHING \'"" ‘ section of the building code for two days Mr, Lecouver had not|mons In ny dent MeAneny, The been at the office, which was very un ie oo OF NEGRO IN. IN THEATRE. nal Courts Bullding ‘ po ma managers were esented by H. % |ugual. Mr, O'Couneil lett this after-| POPE PIUS CANCELS OWENSBOR tripped Willlams and then sat down on Hertz, Alf Hayman, Charles Frohman noon for the Lecouver home to discu Z n to rest after the exertion and Mare Klaw y objected to the |with members of the family the future | HIS PUBLIC AUDIENCES, At Headquarters Wii provision of a steel curtain and that conduct of the business. | — t an ‘who was w the spac the auditorium may The Brown Company lost the contract] ROME, May 12.—-Pope Pi and supposed that he was al t be used for office: after the removal by Mayor Gaynor of! feeling the effects of his rec wok Bul Superintendent Miller sald | Patrick Tracy, Mr. Ferguson's prede-,of gout, and the p: Tisustaing wane st cessor, in the office of Supervisor of the | pi. ‘ this) morni WASHINGTON, Ma r Noise: ainst fire in t Record b i h who had re tl allied ° ste Mr. Lecouver had tr with the! \ Rane a ened. BAe} ana ft ity over his bills for the ation of ar ragePiarr ste Ban berg aa the City Record, Seve aN Ne Ht ais been done up and referred by ay ligt the a Alaska ‘ ae the Corporation Counsel tet for to-day. At Mose the | Worla Charges t slaughtered Whenot chore fou Ue LARGEST euartment justment and recourse to the courts | Ponti had a long ersation with | giseys gies in a merciie ast summer are sea Vure Cort 242 Fulton Sts Nes ooh Fen eo” mecessary. Bishop Bianocon! of Ferentine, specifically mentioned. f / a | | | Passengers in Wild Panic. | the M —=== CRASH SINKS ONE LINER, BADLY DAMAGES OTHER ~ALLABOARD ARE SAFE ccteinisomaesiiniinisipipiogis Merida of Ward Line Goes Down in Collision With Admiral Far- ragut Fifty-five Miles East of Cape Charles, Virginia. BATTLESHIP IOWA AIDING FRUIT CARRIER TO SHORE. |Passengers and Crew, Many in Night , Clothes, Are Tranferred Twice | in the Open Sea. Gliding out of the fog without warning the little American Mail Steamship Company’s fruit steamer Admiral Farragut rammed and almost cut in two the big new Ward line steamship Merida fifty-five miles off Cape Charles, Virgir at 12.55 o'clock this morning. The Merida was due in this city from Havana and Mexican ports this afternoon. The Ad- miral Farragut was bound from Philadelphia to Port Antonio. A wireless message from the Admiral Farragut at 3.30 o'clock this afternoon say “We cre heading for shoal water, being convoyed the United States Battleship Iowa. The condition of the sieam that we | are forced to keep her stern to the running seas. \We have forced the collision bulkhead and shall make an attempt to get into Chesapeake Bay. Our position at noon was 183 miles south of Sandy Hook.” Less than tive hours after the collision the Ward liner sank in thirty fathoms ot water, but not before her 207 passengers and crew of 130 men had been transferred to the disabled fruit carrier The transfer was made in the fog and was still in progress when the great battleship lowa, summoned by w 5 messages of distress, steamed up to the succor of the two shattered vessels. The Hamilton of the Old Dominion line also responded to the wireless appeals and shortly after her arrival an inspection of the little Farragut ihat it would be advis- able to retransfer the Merida’s passenge; to the Old Dominion boat. TRANSFERRED SECOND TIME. The retransfer began just as the Merida ters of the Jowa assisted in the work, which was not concluded until almost 10 y'clock, When the Hamilton set out for Norf torpedo-boat des- troyers Bailey and Stringham were on hand t 15, un escort for the Farragut, which ed back to Philadelphia fo: and c sank, The passengers are due at Norfolk at 7 lock this evening. 1 in the dead of night when ail of the Merida’s passengers er leep, There was only one passenger aboard the Admiral Parragut, \ vessel about one-fifth the size of the Merida, but, like the Ward Mner, built entirely of a The moon was obscured by heavy clouds, and a thick mis: steamed up trom the almost unrlppled surface of the ocean. F ldge of the Merida @ad from th the Admiral Farr »kout, @ perch in the t, impse was roach until she glided noiselessly out ef a bank of fog and rushed for the Ward liner’s side of the Farragut, but almost before his | signals reached the engine room the sharp prow of his ship had struck and burst through the metal plates of The prow of the smaller boat aved into the Merida as if her hull had been made of ch Merida was had of agus a Captain Mader was on the brids the Merida Capt. Robertson of the © bridge houting f his off-ers lesa 2D. A extreme Wa, cruising Island als» and relayed vey had the posi- their berths by the impa ind Farragut, lowa Three Hours Away, Phe tc 4 three hor Alision, and sits cutting gre fox, she rushed to ne Merida and ler @ full of the 4 Latins, and that the offi r shrteking a ¢ Naoded Adi The maforit excitable wa was le so rapidly that mene able to eave or valuables ana tain any clothes to r pajamas and night med put over dresses. While the stern of the rammed liner Mean tine the wireless operators on both steamships had been pounding the re ae ’ till 4