The evening world. Newspaper, May 12, 1911, Page 3

ters: FINGER PRINTS ARE SOLE GLUE IN MURDER MYSTERY Assassin Who, Beat John Whiteford in Lodge Room Left Telltale Marks. FOUGHT HARD FOR LIFE. Old Saloon-Keeper Murde red | for Jewels and Money, Prob- ably by Gang. Prints left by four finger tips and the ‘ball of a thumb of a left hand comprise the sole, tangible clue to the murder of John Whiteford, proprietor of the sa: loon and meeting room at Willoughh and Jay streets, Brooklyn, enrly to-day ‘The marks were left by the murderer on the frame of a door lea mer Mm on the second tloor w Wiiteford's body was found at 5 o'clock this morning. A section of the woodwork, six by eighteen inches, containing the possible identification of Whiteford’s slayer, wa: sued out from the frame, and Expert Morris Eckler, at Brookiyn Pollce Hieadquarters, searched the Bertiti records to-day for duplicates of the te tile marks, The thumb print ts quit Gistinct and gave promise of identifica- | tion, Second Dep Commissioner liougherty personally took up the sien- « tratl, as well as Inspector Russell the Detective Bureau; Capts. C. and Kuhne and Detective Lieute Roddy and Murray Assassins Hid In Dark. Every known fact in connection w the mystery indicates that Whiteford Was the Victim of an assassin or assas tine who, fully pogted regarding lis hibits and hidden inthe meet: which visited afte sale ng room, osing H ), had been armed with black- 3 sandbage and had from @ dark nook and attacked t Whiteford's nose was crush e ulways «8 oF step his skull and jaw we fractur powerful blows, In the fight bailants torn down a@ door Which he sought safets Coroner's. Physik artung 4! ered, through an autopsy, that, des Whiteferd’s terrible wounds, death was teed by choking, potive, undoubtedly, was robbery Whiteford habitually wore a $500 ond stud and a ring of c ie, and carried @ rol! of to $500, “None of these was upon body when John Kerr! n, & barte found his slain empioyer as he ope the place, Whiteford was seen sh < this. morning, in his sal by Charies 18 Lawrence a beforo 1 K room hand he Columbia Theat The was alone and was was’ F wa. 18 ry Je- h time a unger-on in the place, who has not 1 identified, went up and closed the dows, A side entrance to paride however, gave a econd room without the need of passing pugh the sa The Iway was rarely looked until Whi vund of his esta ld have easy nave snl for vked it w arsassin or a gang t stairs unobserved. Fought Hard for Life. 1d John Whiteford had for thirty- five years been a popular figure tn Jife of Brookiyn that centres about t Borough He section, He became pro- prietor of the saloon (ven after fifteen rs! service tender, iabitually genial, he never- theless liad a well-earned reputation as a rou and-tumble fighter, when occasion der d, who could “lek his weight in wildcats.” He must have got hard for his life, as the condi- of the place showed, and it tuevefore probable that more than one person attacked him, Ie yoene of the murder ts about 400 feet from where Charles 1 n, son of a wealthy Park Slope resident, was a robbed and thrown unde 5 walle on his way from a jueeting two months ago. § died of his injuries in the Adams street olice station, where he was locked up a drun murder of Whiteford 1s almost Identical with that of Saloonkeeper McNally, who was killed seven yea favo in his place at North Oxford street aad Park avenue. Whiteford’s saloon n the border of a cheap Tenderloin section and near the “Black Belt,” which has been denounced by Judges Fawcett and Dike, It 4s two short blocks from the Adams street police p ~~ WOODRUFF’S DIRE WARNING. + Bustness Continues as Bad as Now Republicans Will Suffer, WASHINGTON, May 12.—Former Re- publican State Chairman Timothy L. Woodruff of New York brought s dire predictions to the White House to- ay. “If business conditions continue as bad as they are now," said Mr, Wood- ruff, ‘the Democratic party stands on excellent show to carry the State in the Vyesidential campaign. That ts due to ractice of business interests in uning the party in power for famine, Coouphts and all other natural and un- patural disturbances, The reciprocity agreement," said Mr. “has made President Taft partioularly in farmers are yelling cody murder,’ and it remains to be eon whether or not they will come around by election ume." door to this) THE EVENING WORLD, Novelist Oppenheim Still Seeks to Create His Ideal of a Woman She Must Be Very Womanly and Capricious and Hard, to Conquer and Have Brains, but There Is No | Telling What She Is Likely to Do. The New York Woman Has the Face and Figure o1 a Saxon but the Clothes of a French Woman, and She Knows How to Wear Them. NIXOLA GREELEY-SMITUH. “Women are distracting creatures,” Phillips Oppenheim. But lately landed on our shores, this Brit “The Long Arm of Manuister, the Adven- | “A Prince of Sinners” and some seventeen | other novels, which have been widely read in the U nited | States, was seated in the Waldorf-Astoria when he made | his eryptle announcement concerning women. “A man's Hfe—his thoughts, actions and feelings are observed Mr. E. ‘ : author | of turess,” nna, reste i governed by a few well known Ixws. A man {gs much | [# | & GREE ES ec] «More mechanical, less subtle, than a woman, Another 2 man can always ynderstand him, can divine a e what un der | given circumstances he 1s going to do. eo “In writing a story now J get to hav eee - — endly feeling for my men chara » en 8 finisied, I want to Wine you hates coektat vt'wme- | SOME Observations on Women thing before you got “But women are my great aim- culty. I don’t understand them. If the public would let me I'd write | altogether about men. I've never created a feminine charactor that satisfied me—never one for whom I have the cordial feeling some of on inspire in me, You « women are so lawless, er each one of you makes her own laws, and its i;possible for a men know any woman well ough to know -vhat under all cirenmatances she will be likely to feel or way or do. But most men have women reduced by Visiting British Author ON NEW YORK WOMEN: You have the faces and figuri French wom: There are, of course, Bnglish women wo get their clothes in Paris, but they don’t put them on so well. They're more careless, uot #0 ni you ar WOMEN IN GENERAL: The most {mportent quality for woman to possess is a senso of humor. The ideal woman {s one whose sexse of Lumor keeps her from being o bor The ideal woman should be very feminine and very capricious. She must be hard to conquer, but utterly conquered when you got it @one. And by way of variety she may not stay conquered forever. of zon women, but the clothes of you es AN eh Pe denies ‘Women are so lawless it is impossible for a man to kuow what they and end to get married, and thes ete Modem dahil solve everything which puzzles or dl mneerts them by falling back upon at dea.” Formula-Made Heroine yes, formulas are easy," Mr. n answered, “If I could make ccording to a formula, I sup- should be better satisfied with But as yet I've never succeeded my Sdeal of a woman.” that ts STRIKE RIGHT NOW, (BEEF TRUST LOSES, MAYOR TELLS CTY | SHERMAN ACT § heroine: pose I s ot often that an Englishman « ribe the Ideal w an the very time you meet him, and I could * Mr. Oppenheim approached the sub- | “Phe ideal woman, you know, | i Cionld el very temising Very L And Youll Key Work for aheemirrdsy. a he of the Indicted | womanly,” Mr. Oppenheim re- plied, ‘and very, very capricious, She must be very hard to conquer, | but utterly conquered when you get 4t done, And, by way of variety, she mustn't stny conquered for Packers Overruled and All Must Stand New York Again, Adds Gay- | 1 nor, Angered by Threat. Trial. + ° Ono showld be obliged to ‘ mensi all over again cvery Uttle | “T have been Informed th€t YOU GrtoAGo, May 12.—The demyrors of waite tor savers | “reuse, to strike Unless one of a the Chicago packers in the “bee? trus.”* These was a 1 for several nen tg put back to work. Tf that 18 #0 case were overruled to-day by Jude Red yeas if Mr. Oppen- | ai, rye got to aay ts that you can KO Carpenter tn the t District Conrt ae sa sel a UBya |ahead, right now, and strike, and when In his ruling the Judge deciared tha ae % youl ak Y assure you that, so| the Sherman antl-trust law, which had tallen's hand. Then, lke Byamalion,| you 0 strike las i rethoun imself that gle must! long as I remain at the head of tho bien auneee by the packers, have a sou City Government, you wit never Work) “a7 4155 neta that the indletment Must Have Brains, Too. for the city, You underatend that T| ce imiy ‘au inet the indtetmen Really sald, with what seemed trust, Now go ahead and etrike Teche: THER TRE te eee 5 note of apology in his vo Mayor Gaynor used unusual emphasis ty yajia, ‘T think she must have a brain-a good when he thus addressed a delegation of Judge Carpenter'a decision may have bra That's the only thing that will Municipal Ferry engineers to-day at the an inatrect bearing on all anti-trus p a man Interested for any length City Hall, The men comp lained tit) wtigation In the United States, tn wu time, A man won't give his whole Chief Engineer Wilson had been 95-|noaing the completeness and stadilit and soul to a man unless she missed fr the service by Dock Com- | or the sherman act. Of this fe atu, @ brain to understand him, to be misstoner Tomkins on the alleged Com=| ine court said sompanton in every sense. plaint of preferring unfounded charges! “Tho statute has been the subloct © you know, I should say the ag sainst a subordinate. of discussion for twenty years. The most important quality for a wom- “We came here because we Mosecessie pana Court of the United Statoy . t ‘ou yesterday that you would|inany times has sustained dec | @m to possecs is a sense of humor, | from you legal which restrained violations of i” | ‘After all, a usnse of lumnor is only — give your decision on our complaint,” As to the stability of the indtetment, " of the men. a of proportion It keeps a = «ald one t the Court sald rs . I have nothing else woman from over-emphaats, from Do you expect a do net ee how the Grand Jury boring, you know. Yes, that's it— | to do but Rive decisions on your CoM) 4.14 Wve made the charae more asf plaints?” demanded the Mayor, "Do; you fmagine that I can give a decision |; the {deal woman ‘s one whoso seni of humor keeps her under all coa- + und belleve it is sufficiently spe satisfy the substantive law hour? ou think that I] ‘Tho whola plan (that of the packer: Aitions from being @ bor n half an hour? Do you ae ‘ “Do you thin tf ever poriray have nothing else to do than to take up|as alleged in the indictment, from tte ts e my : your troubles? 2 fon appears plainly to be one to| " SNINO Interest in Suffragettes. “As T understand this case," contin- eliminate competition asa factor In fx hat’ 9 tng prices among the three groups jon was tried bY | defendants, beginning with the agres- luea the Mayor, “W! Oppenheim looked ee Dock Commissioner Tomkins and, as @ 4 trifle pained no!" he maid: ‘people aren't ment not to bid against eaa other, in ‘em, Jus: before T sailed result of the evidence, was dismissed. and in fact to ibld exactly the wame tea 1 attended the first-per-| Now you rush up to the City Hall and] amounts for Mke grades of live #tock co of play by Jerome K. Want me to override the decision of the | fixing 4 uniform selling price and ending | Jerome deal ith the suffrage ques-|Comminstoner and you ask mo to reach | Wit) Oxing a unlform price » ma | I forget t just now, but tt a decision over maght. T think tt 48 the) iota) businems done. fell rather fla height of impudence for you to come | To Control Production. You won't be too hard on me, now here and ask me to interferawith chat | 7 on oe ane opinion that will yout’ asked Mr, Oppenheim, as| procedure, Jetated tn the Indictments sh rs ed to sudden ca “To| ‘“L intend to look into your case, but | nian or weheme organ write It, you know, suff es are|until then let me say to you that {f/opration by the defend about as interesting as dead cats, you Want to strike go ahead and) mate purpose of whic There's no reason now why a spinater strike | the @roduotion, sale and owning pro: or a widow with no ‘The Mayor had required the men to | ‘real meat throughout a husbat represent her shouldn't vote give their names before }> addressed | 0% Pua CMners and, an just as well as a man,” Mr, Oppenheim them, They were recorded as WIMam | oy oaucer of the raw material » \added. “But that two persons tn one F, Yates, Phillip J. O'Reilly, Edgar ©. | prices to the consumer of t shed house should each have a vote seems Lohman, John R. Fatrbanks and Ed- While the facts do not dis to me ridiculous. But don't be hard on ward McMahon danlute monopol t ne. I didn't know the women were Turning to Yates, the Mayor asked, aioe the busi nterested in the suffrage question over, "\re you employed | nthe Dock Depart es that t aad ment? to acquire at least a a Ritz-Carit | am not, Mr. Mayor; 1 came here yonopoly. I've just been up to the Ritz-Carlton io yepresent” the men.” HT sk te a ete for -Junehean. What ® lot Of your hon what have I to do with you?! yurrere, saMi he did not titnk the tria women linen. with sean Abner sda t there any one here wio !» em- 1 be held: before fall, Ma the fagt MF Dngland s wasn. ployed tn the Dock Depantment?”’ de ra will appear and the Ing wold have her man slong, anded the Mayo or fil t hero young en Fete iy. Healtatingly O'Reilly advanced und Government alt Le RRA cring sight—all those began, “We called, as Mr. Yates has y right to ask Ladies pase pb een thing said, to Ket your decision, Mr. Mayor to-day, but Pretty women in inost the only twan in| it Was then the Mayor declared him- n the session May 1 the place. like Paradise: | #elf. eae pes a a —_ “yooalig nt your women, you know ttm Ye '°| WANTS $25,000 FOR JILT. can't make up mind ‘whether I'm retyaed pitonal | Fae eave the faces and figures ’eneficlal Association. Ho did not re- |Pretty Agnes Fricke Sues, Allegine Sees women! and you wear |i , them Mxe Freuch women, There = (ity Hall and are, of course, Huglish women who Ee... rida Has Poe's Enangen get their cloties in Parts, but they |Mrooklyn, has begun # don't put the: ‘They're NEW HAVEN, Conn. e!Ostrander for breach of promise and more care! as you engagement of Pagar Allen anke $25,000. anpNdaiicntin’ b are. poet, figured in the tnventory of Ande Ape aU aan ee “T ike to 0 about in the restaurants estate of Mrs. Eliza Poe Hayden, vag trope ya) of strange cities," Mr, Oppenheim in the Probate Court here to-di her father, Herman, added, “I've got many ny plots in poet gave the ring to a M ton |ad Mtem, she swore t 1; | posed to her in July, 1g solitaire ongae In February 10 fidavit, James c restaurants just watching a little party of Rishmond, Va,, whom he was at one of the tables, I besin to wonder way to Visit when he died at Baltimore, | a what they met for—what they are say- Mre. Hayden was a second cous! ing to each other-—and before I know It the poet. The tnheritor of the ing in have @ story. | Mre, Susan Mower of this ctay, ment ring, according to her af Ned the engagement off Justice Putnam granted the application, ( FIREBUG'S BLAZE FRIDAY, MAY 12, 1911. _ | PHRER-YEAR- OLD | SAVED FROM HOOFS OF TEAM BY MOTHER. | OVERCOMES FIVE BRAVE FIREMEN Capt. O’Connor and James Ridding Hurried to Bellevue. Three Others Rescued. SAVED BY “BILL” CLARK. wr Fire Hero Directs the Rescuers—Death Plot Re- sult of Feud There woutd ha a great loss life, Deputy Chie? “Snooxy J Marti n ’ said the fire, had It not been for the bravery and quick wit of C apt. Bill Clark of Truck No. 7, who ved medals for his reckless heroism in sav- Li TOSAVESON > Hotel Windsor fire. nnoll, the owner il the | house, who Ilves in the seca ftoor | Apartment, found the hall full ry am) when he went home at 1.20 o'clock this morning, Me ran down to the tteor be- | Mrs, Mavid Is Painfully Injured flames E ilar statrway as She Hurls Chill Out » the strevt, leaving the Danger. In the fi Asem riments John Cockeroff, a pu ler, boarded a oa six other have stands for| 4 th : frult and candy selling near the Thit ' . 1 ourth street ferry, Other peddiers of the district. have complained — that : ay 1 Cockeroff and his hoarders were undui : favored by the police, e © son, Meyer Mag An Investigation by the Marshal after ten jo & point ni the fire was over showed (at an a was knocked sassin had bullt a bonfire with benaino in the sub-basement under the room| Mos Magid heen to a nel where the seven peddlers slept. | Th drug store and turn ne can had been thrown oa top of to her nove laden with 8. Moy heap of kindling, who Iv three years old, ran along in men George Chadwick, Alfred | front of ily mother, «At One Hundred an and Join Doyie of Hngtne| Thivty-ateth street and Rrovt y Capt. O'Connor, rus nue the sat the foot of 2 the cellar tairs, followed by Uie| men of Truck 7. The first man of t ho express w Ww to the second lot to go down caine siuitger York and on Dispatch Com-| back waving his arms blindly before as coming down the hill, The ! hin face, yoy yan Inte the street before the Capt, Clark pushed his men back, all| % river Ad not have time to but James Redding, and then alone) qe: hia proves and the mother, 4a dashed down the stairs, He came oack| tie co! niger, dropped her bundlos] with George © ick of Engine No.| ant dived ater the itte ¢ 21 in his arms, ‘The fire had meited the| She get ihe hoy by ana| lead piper of the gas meter in the sub- | Hurted him withy unusorl wi ccagth to cellar and the principal danger was| sidewalk. He stru head curd and sustained « painful not from the flames themselves bu ha the inathar itteae Thecentia from the poisonous flood qf gas whton| oot, te oF of the hor was pouring along the ceiling to tho| aty er and whe went down te stairway entrar | tre The driver, . hey brought out Doyle first. He in| not learned, won able t the man wh cued Capt nnon of re she was run o Engine Company No. IS from suffoca- | Ne" to the sidewalk tion in the fire in the cellar of the old | Crrwd Follected and wa Norton House, In Fourteenth street, a Ag Sait at LEDER ily pT week ago. Then they brought out Red- Ue DU Se Ae POUAGR ding, Buchanan and Capt, O'Connor Wick cate fram Ambulance Surgeons Byron and Lend and dressed the Pai attended all the firemen, ‘The condition He sald that she had « bid! of Redding and Chadwick was #o seri-| lacerated shoulder and Internal injuries oun that Father Laffy was called from] bat Mrs, Magid insisted upon going to the Carmelite Church at First avenue] her home, where she might be treated and Twenty-elghth street administer | OF er Own: Dhealeee, the rites for the dying. ‘Then they were Pa taken to Bellevue, ‘The otier three re-|TWO ON TRIAL FOR TRYING turned to thelr quarters after being e HPT Ren TO BRIBE PROCESS SERVER. | —=__ LORD MAYOR OF DUBLIN ASKS VOTES FOR WOMEN. Appears in Parliament With Other Court Will Decide Whether Prin-} cipal Witness Is Public Official, as Indictment Say ‘Thee question whet en process eemve re is a public oMclal came up tor adiva Officials and Urges Passage of ation defore Justice Mocail to-da Law at This Session, when the cages of Herman Kosxentha LONDON, May The advocates of | tnd Lann Vitall, prominent Mast woman's suffrage gave their cause an-| #portemen, were ca Indto other boost in the House of Commonsa|@salnst the duo charge bribing o: to-day when Lord Mayor John J. Far-| Eel Kitng, a process server attached | to Diatrtot-Atorney Jerome's office. ¥, for the defendants, co the indlotment ts defective, read@ public offictal, and th Only & procems aerver {a charged that in and asked Abe nds that) une it at Kiting was | rell, at tne head of a deputation from the Corporation of Dublin presented at ne bar of the House a petition urging the pasnage of a female euffrage bill at © present session of Parliament members of the deputation ap- red in the full regalia of their offi Vital! approached | hin te oft on gamilers clal 4 the ceremony was attended wit of 316 for euch turesque details, in charged. ‘Thin en eee | wan ratified Rosentha 4 eution omends, althoug wsentha AMERICAN WOMAN GOLF als. nak. gure ine tha leatuals moan transaction Ls o King lephonet CHAMPION IS BEATEN.) (vrnston. one ung, ‘elephane fromptly ty 1 over to the ther Mra. Ross Defen' Mi Dorothy) re District-Attorney, Magist +4 i 1 a, | Danter Murphy: Campbell on Linke tn teelan Magistrais Murphy, Inspector Russe LONDON, May 12—Mrs. Ross, who on| and a number of por provnine sions held the British wome 16 gambling atmo ob hip title, to day de- | East pare’ Diaaent Miss Dorothy Campbell, tye | #4 spectators > - ' Canadian champlor American and Cana a Dix Has Hope for t ae y ed eve: ALBAN May 12.-€ elu the Assent! ry Co, Mrs Tudlel and on pla vapor fave ‘oss made 1 ed stroker. Pedera 1 who t Rritleh and Beoteh tt amendnent t White Rese -| a TAKING MONEY GIRL IS INDICTED FROMMENCHARGED AS THE SLAYER OF AGAINST SEMANSKY HER STEPFATHER Hook and Ladder, Twenty-two-Year-Old , Eliza- Company Tell of Demands beth Pearsall Called to Trial by } for Manslauzhter: Firemen of Assistant Foreman. Assistant Foreman Louls Semansky 0 Charged with having «stabbed to ok and Ladter Company No. 9 was death Michael Reid, her stepfather, Commissioner Waldo twonty-two-year-old Elizabeth Peareall c trint next Thursday On| woe today Indicted for man a 1 r ' arke Is the 5 ange A ; hed home 1520 Prom tried Fire Departin » i the night of uM where, 9 #k3! on A 22. 5 inger steter, Civil Serv , ann’, ha ourting” age, i ne On sna Jon the right to rééetve her ne Mr " and entertain hia In Hook and Lid Held objected, 3 te aslo i of the tragedy Ret@ where Annie wae and put’out the ‘ad ‘ u ¢ 11 » god and Reid M " J tt out aya Reid ugheld her ae ty bd secur ised er, ad woe @ stormy ky tet of pal during which Reid struck SIs han James : Elizabeth urged, aonsger oh \ tletpated tn the altercation, a Week on charges preferred 0; her stepfather « her mother ohé sky that Haseott was slow ge rushed into hen, got a carving Ae Sate oe Ente ent ea ie | ERO Rha eres it Into her steps of an alarm. Hassett told Commis: | ei gee heart sioner Waldo that |Semansky was 7 rate o munding him becnuse’ he had refused lhaee ‘ing wan in nett Mv \t , s ¢ Pda ner Waldo caused an -| 9 Heb il arta! ; New Book by Rooxevelt. ye he Ae Ms Kah r h re Wt] CAMBRIDK May 12 -Harvard Unt aa Tadabr ale. 8 . 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