The evening world. Newspaper, August 12, 1911, Page 10

$7 OOO NPLUNOER LOCATED IN ROOM OF MISSING MAN Brooklyn Police Think They Have Clue to Country-Wide Shop-Lifting Gang. SILVER FROM TORONTO. ERODE a PPR LTE I One of the digrest hauls tn supposed | loot made in some time bv) the police {s being gone over at Brooklyn Headquar- ters to-day, while a general alarm ts out for a man known as Ben, Ver of No, 38 Bainbriage street, Brook. lyn, The plunder, valued at about $3,009, was found in Silver's room at No, a6 Bainbridge street—the other address Proving to be a saloon where he had been employed—in about fifty sult cases, boxes and bags, which had been shipped to Silver from many cities, including Pittsburg, Philadelphia, Boston, Toronto, Buffaio, Baltimore and Richm 1, and consists of silverware, linens, cigars, cigarettes by the suspenders, furs, clothing, other things, some of which atti! con- tained store tage, ‘af the police that they have run across one of the oiggest | shoplifting enterprises on record, and it has b diMcult task for several detectives to sort the stuff anda try to determine from what cities and stores ‘t was taken, | The discovery was made by accident ; Two women were arresied in Boston at- ter they had been detected stealing $100 worth of goods in a department store, ce REPRO EEE TS ND LOT SE. it is said, They gave the names of Elizabeth Smith, No. 1% Brodawy, Brooklyn, ang Anna Krafft, No, 1516 Broadway, Brooklyn. TRACED SUIT CASE SENT TO SILVER THURSDAY. Boston detectives had learned t the women shipped a sult case to Silver ig Brocklyn'on Thursday nd asked the Brooklyn police to investigate. They ascertained that No, 31) Bainbridge street was @ boa.din, house cunduei by the two women and that Si.ver boarded there. He had recently announced his en- wagement to one of the women and given up his Job as bartender. Deiec- lives Muriay and seiesky were told that Silver had gone io tailimore a day or two ago. They were told at the saloon where te formerly ‘worked that many sult cases were sent to him there, but he always carried them away, At the boarding house they induced a boarder to show them to Silver's room, The wrsi suit case opened was from Toronto, filled with silver knives and forks. In the search that followed the contents of several rooms were selzed. ‘There were #0 many suit cases and begs that it required half an ! our for policemen to carry them from the house to the patrol wagon, and the detectives | are confident it will take several weeks | to uncover the extent of the operatio and find the owners of the good: part stolen from Bost there to be used against the two women under arrest. The Bertilllon measurements of the women will be sent here in order that the police may © if there Is a record HOCH! BEER IN THE PIPE, WITH NICKEL SLOT METERS. Also Park Fountains to Spout the Maltine Fluid, Utopian Demand of Montelgir Man. Mayor Hinck of Montelatr, N. J., re- celved a letter this morning which re- quested that he and the Common Coun- cll give careful consideration to a re quest for a franchise from the Mont Beer Piping Company, which proposed to do the following To construct a huge tank on Montclair Mountain and fill it with the brand of beer which the majority of the con- sumers preferred, with pipes connected with every home of Upper Montclair, | which has now no saloons; subserits to have meters and to pay only for what they use; all pipes to be of best nickel 4 full head of pressure to be ed; also public beer fou attachment the company to pay either @ royalty of 381-3 per cent. on its profits to the city, or to pay for a blanket license at the rate of $800 a year for each 2,00 persons served. ees ae |nival of Cap and Bells of last autumn, |The pageant will be shown the length Store Tags From Many Citizs| in the Loot Hidden in Fifty Suit Cases. 1. You remember, when Bobbie and Bessie, in their quest for Fairyland, reached the North Pole they were nearly frozen, and the Sun Goddess took them in her warm, glowing arms and made them all warm again? Well, then she set them carefully down and picked up the great golden sun and held it aloft, over the flelds of ice bergs. The sun was so big it made the children look like tiny aolls. THE EVENING WORLD, 2. The sun's Hight poured down upon the icebergs. And everywhere its rays fell the ice melted and won- derful flowers of all sorts of colors sprang up. The melting ice rose in vapor, Just like steam from the spout of a kettle, and came down again Ina shower that drenched the two chil- dren. “Oh, I wish I had my rain- coat!” cried Bessie. “Don't you care!” said Bobble. “It's WAL BE KING OFT CARAAL AT CONEY LAND and Voters Can Get Busy To-Day. All Coney Island te busy preparing for the ninth and greatest of mardi-gras celebrations in the history of that now established institution. There will be several floats added to the constantly srowing fleet and the Robinson Broth- ers, Al and James, who won thelr spurs as creators of the flotilla for the Kansas Exposition, are building the floats for the Carnival of Flowers and Song, under the supervision of Chair- man Fred Kister of the Floats Commit- tee of the Mardi<Gras Association, in the old “shipbuilding” shop in Sea Beach Palace. They have a prolific fleld for the imag- ination in the theme of the carnival and the work has progressed far enoug! to amply justify the prediction that the coming displ.y will excel even the Car- of Surf avenue every evening from Sept. 11 to 15 and on Saturday afternoon, ths latier being Childry Stephen BE. Jackman, who successfully plloved the last Mard!-Gras celebration, has been re-elected president, with the same associates as last year, and head- quarters at Kister's Hotel, EVENING WORLD READERS WILL SELECT THE KING. Ida Robinson, loaned in accordance with long custom by Bloomingdale Bros, for the service, 1s busy with @ corps of needle women in creating the costumes for the 1,00 dainty ginis, 200 men and hundred horses to appear in the pageant, and@he Evening World has been asked to conduct an election for a king to reign over the week-long festivities, as 1, For what would a Mardi- Carnival be like without @ king to lead in the frolic and fun? That is how it happens that the firat official ballot provided by the commit- tee appears on the second page of this paper, where the ballot will be found 4{each day from now until Sept. 7, when the contest will close, so as to give time for @ count of the votes and for the chosen monarch of the Isle of Joy to order his roves from the royal tallor and his crown and aceptre from the Jeweller to the crown, and, besides, time to choose the lady who shall be his queen and the queon of t vels, it~ ting beside him on the throne, whtoh will The letter was signed by the “Secre- ‘ tary of the company," who sald that his associates were all prominent citizens who desired to remain In the backgro’nd un‘il they heard from the press Younc!! through th Belore Selecting Your Apartment CONSULT THE “Apartments to Let” Advertisements In the Daily and Sunday World. IT WILL SAVE YOU Time, Energy and Money The World'sApartments tc Let” Advertisements Offer You the Greatest Variety of Selection. All prices, sizes and locations — be on the float at the very head of the pageant of flowers and song. Voters must cut the coupon ballot from |the Evening World, AU in the name of |the candidate, elther by writing It, | printing it In on @ Lypewriter or stamp Ing Mt with a rubber stamp in the space eft for | on the ballot, Send your bal- lot to the Mardi-Gras Editor, Evening World, Koom 313, Third Floor, Pulitaer Hullding, No. 63 Park Row. Ballots may be sent In each day or hoarded up and ent in ln @ bunch at any time before the pools close on Sept. 7. Vote for only ne candidate on @ ballot and do not te time voting for any one whore name t» not Included in the “OMcial Lis: f Candidates,” which 1s printed to-day with this story and will appear again from time to time as the election pro- kresses. GREAT CURIOSITY OVER THE SELECTION OF THE QUEEN, The King-elect will select a Queen to reign with him, and there will be quite 4s much curlosity about who {8 to be favored with the Queen's diadem as about the result of the race for King. he fancy and character cost division of the Mard ; successful last year, with about 2 ticipants for the gold prizes aggregatng $20), will be made @ special feature, with added priges aggregating another $100, this year, Richard J Blghth street, Coney 1 d, has the arrange- mente for this feature in charge, and Geary, Many Candidates in the Field| [Officers and Direc'ors of Mardi Gras Planned tor Coney Island Next Month Je VENDIG, applications for entry, deseribing the character or costume to be worn, should Entry 1s be addressed to Mr. Geary. open on Monda: will tell an tnquirer that there t thing In getting an early scart, TWO SHOT TO DEATH IN JOKE THEY PLANNED, Railroad Detectives Killed by An- other Officer When They Played Robbers and Ran at Him. DETROIT, Aug. 12—Frank J. Cook and Dante! Vreeland, spectal detectives for the Lake Shore Railroad, were shot and killed last night by Speci: Officer William Burnett of the Michigan Cen- tral Railroad, on the Michigan Central tracks near Junction avenue. The men met death as the result of a joke that they attempted to play on Burnett, They were all on the best of terms and met at the junction of the two roads every nig’ t. Last night Cook and Vree- land, knowing that Burnett had had trouble with two car breakers, decided that they would hide behind a car and| epring out on him as he passed. | Burnett, not recognizing the men in} the darkness, drew his gun and shot four times at them, three of the bullets taking effect, One went throug Cook's heart, the other two striking Vreeland | in the bead and chest. Burnett then | ran down the tracks to Junction ave> nue, ta city patrolman who was toward the of the sho When burnett re- Larned to the scene of the shooting and recognized the almort couapsed men a IMs friends be | from _ shock. Pioneer Dry Goods Man Dead. Bernard Wolbarst, one of the pioneer dry goods merchanis of this city, died to-day at Belmar, N. J. at the age of sixty-nine, Mr, Wolbarst came to this country from Poland in 1866 and went nto business at once, He retired (wenty years ago, He was @ contrib iting member of the funds of Moun Sinai and Beth Isracl Hospitals, the | Jewish Protectory and ma Jewish ch His sons, Samuel, Jacob, EM and Miss Rose Wolbarst, survive hi fineral will be at noon to-morrow from n'a home, No. Kast One Hundred | and Twentieth street. Visits Sick Wife, Is Robbed, Joseph Borchsemius called last night ‘on his bride of five weeks, who ts il] in a hospital, then returned to lds home in the Kenesaw, No, 6% Bt, Nicholas avenue, During his absence three broke in and 00d descriptio from Mra. Arthur Sigel, who raw them leaving 0s AA IT AEE —a good for the flowers, and just look at the gorgeous rainbow!” 3. Sure enough, the rain stopped Just then, and there was a wonderful rainbow that started at the children’s feet and stretched away like a glitter- ing, many-colored bridge for miles. “Come on,” said Bobbie. “Let's cross the Rainbow Bridge. They say there's a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. Maybe Fairyland ts there, —————————————— SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 1911. of Fairyland .. a gR py PINS 2, Fle sentinvtoy Omintta A too.” So off they started. has trodden rainbow paths can tl ees asked Bobbie. “No,” you, 4. At last the two tired children | never heard of it.” came to the very end of the rainbow.| 56. “Oh, dear!” fretted never ts. catching rainbow gleams in their | yet. caps. The Little People seemed very| “We'll go with you,” cried the Lit- It was | glad indeed to see Bobbie and Bessle.| tle People. slippery walking, too, as any one who | “Can you tell us the way to Fairy-'nice place since you're both so anx- an-| lous to get there.” swered one of the Little People. “We | Bobbie. many of us hunting for Fairyland There was no pot of gold there. There | Just when we think we are getting now, we'll surely find it soon,” said But there were @ lot of there we always find it's somewhere| Bessie. queer little people playing around and/else. Come on, Bessie! We'll find it “It must be an awfully | So off they all started, with Bobble jand Bessie in the lead. “With 80 | (To be continued. Watch for the nezt adventure.) Candidates must be nominated to the fleld: and A. M. Anton Dahlbender, No. 60% Grand Official Candidates tor King ot Coming Carnival at Coney Schiffman, Secretary, Surf avenue, Coney Island, in writing and accepted as candidates by the Nominating Committee of the Mard! Gras Association. No others will be recognized by The Evening World. The following are now in Conrad Stubenbord sr., Coney Island, the Mardi Gras Assoctation, Charles Past Master Kedron Lodge, F. street, | | seven.h street police, concealed in the | suicide’s cigarette case, bears out the | ’ |theory that financial troubles caused I wer |One was addressed burger, the other to Hugo Hayman, the | |TROUBLED BROKER MAILED WILL, THEN FRED FATAL SHOT Siegfried Hayman Wrote Law- yer Before Shooting Himself at City Club. | Harry W. Newburger, a lawyer of No. 2 Rector street, to-day received from the Coroners Office a letter written by Slegfried Hayman, thirty-one years of age, a broker of 74 Broad street, just before Hayman committed sulcide yes- terday afternoon at the City Club by shooting himself through the head. Tue letter verified the theory that the broker had killed himself because of financial troubles. | It was in effect an appointment of | Newburger as attorney to take charge of Hayman's estate and affairs. Tt was Hkewlse equ! ent to @ will, tn that it |directed all of the suicide's property to be given to his wife. “His debts drove him mad," said one of his closest frie who had evidence upon which to base his statement. | | LETTER SHOWED HE HAD LOST IN STOCK MARKET. | An unsigned letter found by Acting Capt. Glouster of the West Forty- Hayman to end his life. Three letters found on a table near the suicide. to Lawyer | dead man’s brother, and the third to his | letter addressed to him, uness he Brooklyn; nominated by the would wife who is summering with her infant | | son at Elberon, N, J. | Coroner Holtzhauser refused to per- mit Lawyer Newburger to open the —_——. consent to make Its contents Farmers’ Club, David Morgan, Secretary, James H. Curtin, No, 1402 Broadway, York Lodge No. 1, Theatrical Mechanics’ Association, the German-American Citizens’ League and Arlington Y. F.C. A, Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. August von Hasselin, No. 37 Smith street, Brooklyn; Brooktyn Saengerb' Club, Tammany Hall, William D, Kolle, Prospect Hall, Nos, 261 to 23 Prospect avenue, Bri lyn, Brooklyn Quartet Club, John J, Curran, No. 1659 Second enue, Manhatt: esters, graph money can buy as « their esteem, Manhattan, President of the New Hugo Hessel, real estate, No. 712 Schenck avenue, Brooklyn; nominated by John J. Relsler, No, 169 West Forty-fifth street, member of Mecca Temple, Edward G. Smith, No, 78 Wall street, Manhattan, member of the Algonquin , Manager, member of the Catholic Benevolent Legion, Irish-American Athletic Clup, Elks and For- und, ‘0ok- Bluefield, W. Va., Policeman Killed and Two Others Are Among the Injured. BLUEFIELD, W. Va., Aug. 12.—While rounding a sharp curve on the outskirts of the city last night, an automobile in which were seven passengers struck a rock and turned completely over sev- eral times, all the occupants meeting |death or injury. —T a7 ———-= | James L. Booth, of the Bluefield forca, token of was pinned under the car and so ter- public, Upon Newburger’s refusal to do | fo, the coroner dropped the three ietters down the mail chute. Hugo Hayman recetyed the letter ad- | dressed to him during the evening, 1c contained nothing, he said, that would explain his brother's act. Hayman was not connected with any firm, and had desk room at the offices of Charles W. Turner, at No, 74 Broad street, Before launching into the brok- | erage business for himselt he was asao- | clated with Kuhn, Loeb & Co,, the brok- erage firm of which Jacob H, Schiff and | O:to H. Kahn are members. | He had evidently prepared for his sul- cide, In the morning he had bought | @ revolver and then went to the City| Club, of which he was @ memves, ana | askea for a room in which he might Japanese Hero to Take Lunch | tower. AT WEST POINT; REVIEWS CADETS —_— } With Col. Roosevelt at | Oyster Bay To-Morrow, Admtra} Togo ts at West Point to-day, | c where he will inspect the military acad. emy review the cadets, He left the Hotel Knickerbocker this morning at 8 o'clock and made the trip up the Hudson tn the presidential yacht May- He was the guest of Maj, Gen. Barry, superintendent of the academy, at luncheon. Admiral Togo will motor y and lunch with ex-Presi- elt, and in the evening he will receive the Japanese residents of the city at Carnegie Hall, where they will present him with the finest phono- ented a AE ALR A RI ribly Injured that he died within thirty|hold a consultation with his lawyer Admiral Togo returned to this city | minutes. He was assigned to Room No, 503. Then yesterday from Philadelphia more ex-| p he telephoned for Newburger. When hausted with the ince: a Sanna Tae . Doyle, also a policeman, suffered! je lawyer knocked at the door of Room serious !nternal injuries and may dle, 0. Fred Stafford, policeman, about the head and arms, Ray Evans had his chest crushed tn, and several ribs broken, His condition {s serious. functions to which he was subjected in “| the City of Brotherly Love than he was at the termination of hi, engagement with Rojestvensky's fleet in the Sea of which ended only when the last 1s had disappeared | “g . beneath the waves. The pace was too | eee SURGE: AN Sk. AROUS. the ewitt for-him, and for the first time in| 164 Anderson and Everett Hawley hie Ufe he was compelied to ery for i I known yo 7 quarter, He dodged the balance of the | eal snow wat narienaiy. ourade saa programme by bolting for the train, in| Ov eary, the owner, was driving the| which he slept all the way to New| oa: at the time of the accident, York. pon TRE ENA WHAT'S THIS, “TY” COBB DROWNED MAN FOUND. NOT A “GEORGIA PEACH?” stocutes you in ti The law Just as th w Hy The: Lost Lite Swimming tn| seventh Margaret . Cy Aug. 12.—North | Creek at Springticia, Lo families 1 which disputes with South| The body of Harry Stockles, twenty: when Mr Carolina the honor of being the birth: | rs old, of Rockaway road, Spring- field, L, I, who was drowned {n Thurs- ton’s Creek Friday night, was found y to-day by Fred Boettler, trolley ace of Andrew Jackson, 1s seeking further laurels in the line of the par- entage of noted men by challenging the | Elberon, brother's Claim that Tyrus Cobb is @ Georgia |car conductor on the Far Rockaway and oun Jamatca line, | brate the oh 5 Stockles, accompanied by Miss Rose | ding. H, Taylor Cobb, an uncle of the Des} josepn and her brother, Louts, went troit fielder, who visited the city swimming in the creek near the Spring- ‘Thursday, stated that “Ty Cobb was | field dock, born on Mocassin Creek, in Cherokee County, North Carolina, and that did not move to Georgia with his father The Josephs left the water earlier than Stockles and returned home without him, He {8 belleved to hai been attacked by a cramp, aw the body ying on a mud bank of | pa tive Bell until he was ten years old, He attended ee notlned Rolieean gona | route T the village school at Belleville, the| Bunte of Jamaica and the body was | weighing nele sald, for several years before dat the direction of Coroner | shall be Boing to the Cracker State. matter. eaten he rere was cut| opening !t'a few inches: “Walt downs! to Newburger. ASKED LAWYER TO WAIT, THEN ‘olver on Hayman lived at No. 12 street. He guests who had come to help her cele WASHINGTO: Boettler | bill authorizing the estab! Hayman came to the door, irs, Harry, I will see f minutes,” Hayman sald SHOT HIMSELF. yer went down to the library he fifteen minutes elapsed An- ns, a hallboy, heard a Newman and th, and receiving peated knock ler t sin with a pas y found Haymen's body hud doy harm chair near the win the floor al was Heller in 1910, ived together until 1 er went fo’ very hour ide was welcoming the fifth anniversary of her wed- i Parcels ¢ Bill. . 12.—Representa orgia has in of ¢ he bill proposes that packages not more than eight pounds handled as fourth class mail