The evening world. Newspaper, July 27, 1911, Page 1

» inca, Kiso Orders Option Taken on | . Seashore Property at Rockaway. ‘ORY FOR PEOPLE. Evening World Suggested Plot at Coney Island for Park \ \ After the Fire. The Frening World's suggestion that Qhe city acquire, by purchase for park Purposes, the property at Coney Island Gevastated by the Dreamland fire three months ago, was unanimously adopted to-Gay by the Board of Estimate and Apeortionment. This action followed the adoption of a report submitted by & special committee which has been investigating the plan. ‘The members of the committee are Comptroiier Prendergast, Aliermanic (President Mitchel and Borough Prest- Ment Steers of Brooklyn. They submit- te4 a recommendation that the city ac- quire at once a strip of land about 1.000 feet along the shore front and 700 feet wide extending from West Tenth atreet fio West Fifth street, exclusive of a atrip 0 feet wide along Surf avenue belong- fing @ the Dreamland company. ‘The committee also submitted two eptions offered by the Dreamland peo- ple on ‘ts entire property, one for $1,- (0,000 and one for $1,500, At the suggestion of Mayor Gaynor (he Board committed itself to the plan ef purchasing the entire beach frontage Between Surf avenue and the ocean and West Fifth strect and West Tenth treet. It was agreed that the land can be purchased more cheaply now than at any time in the future and also that ft ean probably be secured more rea- gonably by direct purchase than through condemnation proceedings. Following 1# the report submitted by the committee: HIGHLY DESIRABLE PARK SPACE FOR USE OF PEOPLE. “To the Board of Estimate and Ap- poctionment: \ “Gentlemen~The special committee to whom was referred the question / of the desirability of acquiring a | peaside park at Coney Island, after canvassing the situation thoroughly, recommends that a strip of ocean front bounded by West Fifth stre in the Borough of Brooklyn, on the east, the Atlantic Ocean on the south, @ line parallel to and distant 200 feet southerly from Surf avenue on the north, and a line paraliel to West Tenth street, or nearly so, and dis- tant from sald West Tenth street feet on the west, be acquired for public park purposes. “This tract of land will cover an area of one thousand (1,000) feet on the ocean front, by an average of approximately seven hundred (700) feet inland, The Dreamland Com- pany, which owns approaimately the westerly one-half of this tract in- cluding the two hundred (200) feet front on Surf avenue, which 1s ex- eluded in the above description, has given city two options on its the one offering to sell to at private sale, the sum its holdings including the f avenue frontage, at $1,350,000, and the other, offering to sell {ts hold- ings to the city for $1,500,00, tn the event of nnation proceedings having been instituted, and such cone awards having been {n this amount of $1,500,000, co helleves that the acquisition strip of land along the shore t, and running within two hundred (20) feet ¢ nue, WILL MAKE AH SIRABLE PARC SPA essible to ale city, and recommends that co: nation p lings be institute acquire the samc S30ARD ALSO TAKES OPTION ON SITE AT ROCKAWAY. fn addition liring the Dream: j site the to. 2 250 of Rockaway Park converted into th play nis to of the to be afflic cone Yi proposition . A&A number of clvie EDITION. PRICE ONE OENT. CITY BOARD OF ESTIMATE APPROVES PLAN 10 BUY DREAMLAND PARK SITE ‘WRATHER-—Fair to-night and Friday; warmer. eee cone Cae Le Sita Copyright, 1912, by The Prose ron. Ure’ Now Tork World). TOMBS PRISONER SHOT EAP OF BROGE OF SIGS citing Bombardment-of Bullets in Street. REVISED WOOL BLL BY LAFOLLETES PASSEDIN SENATE Republican Insurgents With | Aid of Democrats Pass Measure, 48 to 32. SLID DOWN A _ ROPE. Painter’s Scaffolding Helped Man Awaiting Grand Jury to Short Liberty. In a Garing attempt to escape from confinement to-day Joseph Hall, « square-Jawed, red-headed young west sider, climbed through @ window of the detention room of Part 1. of the Court of General Sessions, gained the root of the Bridge of Sighs between the Tombs and the Criminal Courts Building, dropped twelve feet to a painter's ecaf- fold alongside the Bridge of @ighs, alld d forty feet to the ground on a rope, ran Measure Adopted Reduces | ,"siock and was stopped in Lafayette Mariff:tor35iFer)-Cents Ad |toeh ac eases sacar a cana Valorem—Veto Threat. HOUSE BILL IS KILLED. jeg. Hall is under indictment for feloni- gus assault. | Fully ten shots were sent after the WASHINGTON, July T—<A com-|5°FVY fugitive by different policemen, Promise Wool bill offered by Genator | THC #treets in the vicinity of the Ortmi- La Follette of Wi , @ modification |"8! Courts Butlding and the Tombs of beth his own and the House bli, waa? Wek? Crowded at the time. With bullets paseea by the Senate 48 to %, ehrough |A72S through the alr and from the pavements and walle of butid. the uason of Democrats and Repubii-|ings it ie a wonder that Hall was tho can insurgent. Upon this middle only person ahot—partic round the Democrats, having secured pollos markacsen portrait Hog ba @ record vote on the original Under-| Hall 1s the first prisoner that ever ‘wood (bill, joined with the Republican | attempted to get away from the Tombs insurgent forces. | or the Criminal Courts Building by way The measure adopted reduces the of the Bridge of Sighs. His try for raw wool duty to 35 per cent. ad/ freedom was made possible by the fact valorem and correspondingly reduces | that two painters have been at work the duties on woollen articles. The! for several days past decorating the present Payne-Aldrich tariff on raw/| tron aides of the Bridge of Sighs with wool is #& per cent. @ coat of vivid red paint, which ta to Tne passage of the La Follette re-| serve as the base for another coat of vised bill, followed the defeat of the|@ color not #0 conspicuo original La Follette bill and the House| PRISONER SAW SCAFTOLDING measure. | AND PLANNED ESCAPE. There ‘s some doudt as to what ‘The scaffold upon which the painters course th - rae the House Democrats will PuF~ 42. working hung to-day on the easter! sue with regard to the compromise Gays ago served notice that the House | i> csoners from the windows of the de- would not h é Mette bun et the original La Fol- | vention room of Part J. of General Bee “ ‘0 | vhich court-room is on the south- The “regular? Republican members | *08% Which of the Senate Finance Committee an-| St comer of the third floor of tho Criminal Courts Building. nounced that because of the carrying | ‘4s out of the Democrat-insurgent Repub- | j,w)tn some twenty other Prisoners lican wool programme they would re-| lial! was taken acrows the : o fuse to serve on the Conference Com- | S!&hs from the Tombs this morning and culties berbesn he ee tonite. herded into the detention room in ques- ‘Although President ‘Taft has made| ton to await pleading before Judge no definite utterance to that effect, it| Crain. It was just before 10 o'clock has been strongly intimated at ‘the| and court had ict opened, The Deputy White House from time to time that|Sheriffs in Part 1 were busy looking he might feel called upon to veto @| after the order in which thelr prisoners wool tariff bill, passed In advance of | were to be produced in the court-room, Rhee a that schedule from the/und for a time the detention room was “The situation te entire f| HOE cloeely watched, MMinee eeede Cuiniertant Bice rus “ne oH5| Hall, who ts twenty-seven yeara old Finance Committee. "We are autiating | ad athletic, looking from the window, that the President will veto any bili|S4W the acaffold and w rope depending that can be sent to him within the] from the floor of it to the sidewalk on range prescribed, and we shall proceed | the south side of Franklin atreet, along- side the high stone wall of the Tombs. next winter with whatever tariff re- vision may be necessa: Then we e@hall| The window of the detention room, un- have the Tariff Board's report and can} parred, was open for air. Hall con- ceived his plan and put it into exeou- work intelligently." tion In a few seconda, —— Leaping to the sill of the window, he COTTON TARIFF BILL . REPORTED TO HOUSK, (tor sot oh ilae of Mane Vs \GTON, painters’ scaffold. Swinging over the WASHINGTON, July The Under. | Painters’ seal wood Cotton Reviston bill was reported ng by his hands and dropped to the House to-day by Chairman Un- | ‘ely ending Date ean Wo Mee |derwood of the Ways and Means Com.| Prsed members of the House Painters was postponed until} and Deco! ore nion. mittea, but deba' to-morrow to permit the Republicans to file a minority report from the com- mittee. j vad grabbed the dangling eee FARMERS’ FREE LIST | io 36 anu started to slide to the ground. SKIN TORN FROM HANDS AS HE SLID TO THE STREET. ‘ore the painters could make a BILL IN SENATE | te aid not wo down hand over hand, | but let himself #ifde, When he struck the pay l the skin wae torn rom the palma of his hands. As he landed in Franklin street, Hall made the un ed busin waa fac westward, He started {n Bristow of Kaneas announced he that direction, with the intention of ould offer amendments to tt to be voted | dodging Lafayette street to Myon tomar, Me: Anal Voto on the Peonard street and then running into se ‘ hea Broadway and losing himself, | WASHINGTON, July 2.—The Farm- Jers’ Free List bill was laid before th Senate by se Penrose to-day and s. Sen jown It happened that Policeman Danial J. Bolger was crossing the Bridge of Bighs at the moment picked by Hall for his slide for liberty. Bolger hurriedly ques- | Comptroller Prendergast and President | tioned the painters, looked through one ‘Mitchel have been foremost in advocat- {of the windows on the west side of the the Rockaway park site and they | bridge and saw Flail legging it for the (ated recently that any favorable ac-| Lafayette street corner. Shooting as with reference to It would| pest he could through the bara Bolger © against the interests of the | gent three bullets after ugitive: a side park site fgned by | phe reports of the revolver, magni- and philanthropic bodies have advocated the acquisition of this site for years and | now the board is In favor of tts accept. ance. he no Hvening World for C anc Allied Hospitals, Jacob A, Riis and /empty Bridge of Sighs, were heard others appeared before the Board to-| throughout the Criminal Courts Bulld- ay to urge the acceptance of the Rock- eway park plan, Pa a ea NEW YORK, THURSDAY, (Continued on Becend Pages - ff? OES har ay aguaing Dinaelt v2 be ULY 27, OTEL IROQUOIS MURDER COMMITTED _FROM THE INSIDE, POLICE NOW BELIEVE 1911. WHATHER-—Fair to-night and Friday; warmer. FIN EDITION. PRIOE ONE CENT. 16 PAGES BANKER MURDERED BY THIE IN ROOM IN HOTEL [ROQUOI. Atconauiy ee Al EN il Ze HOW EnTeancs | WAS i MADE ‘absent ax often as possible, preferably GETS INWUNCTION continuously Brehm laughed at the suggestion and made 1 harder than ever. He helped himself at the bar and at the HU til as consistently as before, and, in desperation, the widow upplied to the ourt. She has sued Brehm for $600 damage to her business that his love- making interruptions cau but as the sult ix likely to drag 1 for | months, her lawyers advised her to | seek the injunction | If Brehm refuses to obey the tnjune ° tion he will have to continue his | wooing from the Raymond Street Jatt Widow’s Wooer Won't Stop|5 KILLED; 75 INJURED Wooing Without Word of IN CRASH OF TRAINS. Legal Warning. Negro Excursionists Victims of Collision on Seaboard Air Line her application for an injuncti¢ Werdner said Brehm became attentive “meray y(t | after ahe had purchased a saloon at ner| SHEPARD SLIGHTLY BETTER. [Present addrens. He wanted to marry | — |the widow and annex the saloon | LAKE GEORGE, » Mrs. | negroes. Ju Dr | Beginning his euit for the hand of| Henning left Fuward M.— Shepard's }the widow and incidental control of | home at 9.30 A, M. to-day after having |the saloon a year and a half ag nat the bedsld for Brehm has kept up hia love making at| Senter hour in @ full pressure. He has also patronized | hours and w the the saloon freely, playing the freely | Test of the ile | thrae ways, He would occasionally pay | aignt improve for @ drink, but, having paid, wo | 80] yeomed to have f allied afte to the till and borrow back the money of Wednesda kht. He ty ex-| | This wan one of his cute little jokex ly weak 9 uation t@ a0 | ‘The widow admits that Brehm shone | great that the matical [with @ certain amount of eclat as « wooer and that for a while she realy | $12 $5.95 contemplated wearing the name of |The ™ Onan Brehm e@ Was cautious enough aw sale ever, to look up Hrehm's past and find | Lo" 4 nut that he Mad a wife, whe was atti! | Outing Sulte, satin lined, All mises ry much alive. 2 breasted; worth $12 1 our to-day and Then she asked Brehm An ‘function in restrain of love was in North Carolina granted by Supreme Court Justice) HAMLET, No ©, July {fo -An ex Stapleton tn Brooklyn to-day, in favor | cursion train from Durham, N.C. on| of Mra, Bilzabeth Werdner of No, ar |tne Seaboard Air I an Rallroad, bound | Stage streot, Willlamsburg. Mrs. W. 2 | eee te ee hig ene ner, who fs an attractive widow, sought | at 10.90 A, M. to-day, Instantly deilling the injunction as a means of soft- | tive persons and tnjurtng about se pedalling the wooing of John 7. Many of the Injured will die % The train which ran into the fret! Brehm, also of Williamsburg ‘ |was @ megro excursion, All the dead In various aMdavite accompanying | yd practically all the tnjjured are Wounded in Leg After sx-Diagram Showing How Murderers 6 | ) | AT CINCINNATI. ra ROQUOW | NATIONAL LEAGUE. Police Believe It an “Inside Job,” of Banker Might Have Crossed Roofs| Committed by Some Person or Persons Familiar With the Vic-. R tim’s Circumstances. CHLOROFORM TRIED FIRST, BUT SLEEPER WOKE UP No One Heard What Evidently Was a Great Struggle-—Blood Stains Washed Off. All of the detective talent at the command of the Police Depart- \ment, under the personal direction of Commissioner Waldo, aided by Deputy Commissioner George S. Dougherty and Inspector Hughes, is engaged in an effort to solve the mystery surrounding the murder of | William Henry Jackson, seventy years of age, and for thirty years cashier of the firm of Van Schaick & Company, No. 7 Wall street, who was beaten to death in his bedroom at the Hotel Iroquois, at No. 49 | West Forty-fourth street, early to-day, The detectives have accepted the theory that the aged man, who was wealthy, was murdered by some one having access to the hotel who had full knowledge of the habits, condi- tion and infirmities of the elderly victim, Following this Idea the police are seeking an employee of the hotel who may be able to supply some information concerning what persons went to the tenth floor of the hotel, upon which Mr. Jackson's room was located. This employee was in charge of the elevator that took the murdered man to his room floor after he was last seen alive at 9 o'clock last night, and who, the police think, can recall any other persons who made the same trip. Two addresses were given as betng the residences of this employee, but at neither of them have the police found the man they seek “INSIDE JOB,’ POLICE THINK NOW. That the murder was what is known as an “inside job, able by these things: ‘ s made prob- The extreme difficulty of entering the hotel from any surround- ing building without detection, The fact that all of the known means of such entrance were under continual watch, The fact that an inside worker would have Jackson was extremely deaf. known that Mr. ‘The fact that his liberality in tipping the employees created the impression that he was much richer than he really was. The fact that access to the room where the murder was com- | GIANTS— mitted would have been comparatively easy for one accustomed 000 - to the hotel | CINCINNATI-- All of these circumstances combined to displace the carlier theory 200 — Jot the police that the murderers of the elderly cashier came over the Teo! Batteries -Drucke and Wilton; Keefe : . Avers ; s and McLean of the City Club Building, tmmediately to t west of the Hotel Iroquois rere «ther from that building or from the Hotel Algonquin, which adjoins 1 AT PITTSBURG the City Club. BROOKLYN— oo00000 EVIDENCES OF DESPERATE STRUGGLE, | PITTSBURG— Evidences of a desperate struggle between the elderly victim of the | 250000 murderers and the man who came to rob him were apparent, and the materia Rucker and Bergen, Liefleld) ace setting of the tragedy furnished a complete story in still objects j —.—- which told {n detail what has happened in the room AMERICAN LEAGUE. A chloroform bottle found tn the closet, empty and with the name on mee its skull-marked label destroyed, told of an effort to chloroform a sleeping AT NEW YORK. victim, A gag in his mouth, made from a towel, added the detail of en- T, LOUIS— forced allence, and the torn condition of Mr. Jackson's pajamas, the num- 000 — |ber and character of his wounds, and the condition of the room made the | aH ANDERS thread of the tragedy perfectly plain 005 - ‘The burglars, so the police thought at first, had climbed over the threes | _Geterne sane and Meplen; Maher | root airshaft between the City Club Building roof, which was flush with the i - - tenth-floor windows of the hotel, Into Mr. Jackson's roor Then they had | AT BOSTON. chloroformed and gagged him, and while engaged tn this work ho awoke | CHICAGO | We fought the intruders with the strength that is born of desperation and | 200010 — | of the sensation of facing death in the dark, and he fought itke a madman, | BOSTON— Wounds about the face and head showed that he had been repeatedly | 200000 — | atrnck by the burglars, and probably with ® blackjack or jimmy, A deep | AT WASHINGTON, ‘gash was over his right eye, and the ekull was crushed by the final blow } perroit— | that ended the combat and sent the aged man to the floor, where he was | 00000 — | found Pee aA oar WASHED OFF STAINS IN BATHROOM. poets For motive, completing the essentials of the crime, every pocket of AT PHILADELPHIA the clothing thet had belonged to the man had been turned {nside out and | CLEVELAND— whatever valuables he had were taken, tt was thought, before the burglars oO 00 — and the murderers went to the bathroom, washed thetr hands and wpled the | ATHLETICS— atains away on the underelothing of the man they had killed 0000 Sd All of thts took place between ® o'clock last night and early to-day. Coroner Winterbottom, who made an examination of the body, sal it For Baseball Raparta See Page 16. 1.4 hour of attack had probably been about 1 o'clock Bi, #ye), Bureau It was 9 o'clock to-day before the crime was discovere!. Next to the valk ian iter ai room in which It was committed te the eutte occupied by Distriot-Attornes r . and Mrw. Whitman, They heard mothéng during the aight, and the Distrie®