The evening world. Newspaper, August 22, 1911, Page 1

on enn WIRELESS PROSECUTOR OPENS CASE AGAINST BELLBOY © CONVICTS GO TO PRISON FI WOATHER=Falr to-night and Weanesday; cooler. EDITION. PRICE ONE ‘CENT. Copyright, 1611 1, by The (The New York World) She Prove Publishing QUICK CAPTURE OF SPEEDERS WHO HURT POLICEMAN: | Detectives Nab Joy - Riders Who Fled From Scene When They Hit Victim. STRUCK .ON BOWERY. Officer Was Hurled Against an Elevated Railroad Pillar and Badly Injured. e police n down {itats who ru get away auge 4 this aft when Lieuts, Jo- ph De Cantiliio! of 6 Central Of ed two of the men who were in the at struck A seriousty injured a- ward J, Donovan on the Bowery Jost night. ‘The men arrested are Joseph F. Wig- ging, nineteen years old, 214 West Sixty-seventh street and of No, 49 West Sixty-seven Wiggins has confessed that he was running the car when tt struek Dono- y Barrett and four other young men whose names are !n the possession of the police were in the car as Wiggin's Buests. Donovan, who was on a stationary it at Grand street and the Bowery, the victim of joy-riders. Young \: iggine only recently got a chau.ceur’s license and went to work for the Car- hart Motor Sales Company at No. 1989 Broadway. He was not authorized to take cars out of the garage without permission. But he had a key to the garage, Last night he took out surreptitiously a 60 horse-power racing car and invited four friends to go to Coney Island. They were on their way home when the car struck Donovan. Without slackening speed they got away from the scene of the accident. De Cantillion happened to see the occurrence and got a good idea of the car. ' To-day he learned thet at any early hour this morning a tlre came off the front wheel of an automobile at Thirty- veventh street and Eighth avenue. ‘There were five men in the car when it broke down and three of them quickly dieappeared. The others patched up the oar and went north. They ap- peared to be very nervous, A policeman on Stationary post near the scene of the breakdown strolled up looked things over. Something ompted him to take the number of the car, De Cantillion and Haley land- ed the car late this afternoon in the ‘arhartt Karage and the speedy arrest of Wigigns and Barrett followed, ee cegecone GROUT MUST TESTIFY OR DEFEND FOR CONTEMPT. Attorney-General Defines Rights of Investigators in Union Bank Wrecking Inquiry. ALBANY, Aug. 22.—Witnesses falling to obey subpoenas to testify before the commission which Is igvestigating the affairs of the Union Bank of Brooklyn can be punished for contempt, accord- ing to an opinion given to-day by At- torne; eneral Carmody to perintendent of Banks Van Tuy) A mpanied by Assemblyman Gold stein of Brooklyn, Mr. Van Tuyl to- day conferred with Mr, Carmody on the contention of Edward M. Grout, former president of the Union Bank that he could not be compelled to tes- t ne Investigation ify #t vosuit of tnelt’ conference Mr Van Tuyl announced that contempt proceedings, would be Instituted against all persons not obeying subpoenas, when the investigation is resumed to- norrow. Among those subpoenaed ts Mr, Grout. MILLIONAIRE TO WED € State Su- FISHERMEN GET 10-FT. STURGEON INHARLEMRIVER ammenpemen Crowds on Bridge and’ Shore See Men in Motor Boat Capture Big Fish. Henry Easig and Tom Bidle of Bed- ford Park, Bronx, were working on their motor boat under Central Bridge in the Marlem River this aft won when they | noted @ disturbance the water along- side. Ksaig made out a whopping big | fish. Selzing a boat hook he made @ fah and caught eald rent under the gills. Mr, Fla started right up the Harlem River dragging the motor boat along. idle, looking over the side, yelled “It's a sturgeon.” “Sturgeon nothing!" howled Essig. “It's a whale. Lend a hand here." @ reached over with another boat 1 got ® second grip on the fish boat yanked back and the Harlem, and people on rs and the foot paths of Cen- Bridge shouted encouragement to the Impromptu fishermen, Finally the fish and Its tow got near the Hronx shore, and John Dinsmore, superintendent of Macomb's Dam Park, threw a line to the motor boat. Essig and Bidle managed to make the line street tral infiean D) TTT Te WEATHER—Fatr t FI NEW YORK, TUESDAY, “AUGUST 22, 1911. CROWD JEERS WIRELESS MEN ON WAY TD PRISON Veteran President sit Wie De- fiant, but Others Try to Dodge the Taunts. ONE GOES, TO COAST. Lawyer’s Wife and Children Will Live Near Prison Until His Release. Handcuffed to thres Deputy Ufilted States Marshals, three of the four con- victed United Wireless officials ran an unexpected gantlet of grinning and jeer- ing citizens along Franklin street to- day on their way from the Tombs to the elevated station, The trio, after the United States Ciroult Court of Appeals had refused to interfere with their sen- tences, were bound to the Federal Prison at Atlanta. fast, and then, by dint of hard pulling, the fish alongside a pile of the ridge. It was a ten-foot sturgeon, the big- gest ever caught in the Harlem River. Esatg and Bidle swore it weighed a ton, but fishermen said it would probably weigh about 200 pounds. A butcher driv- ing his cart across Central Bridge bought the Ash for $11 and took it to his shop. MEAT SOARS T0 NEW HIGH LEVEL: IS GOING HIGHER Top Scale for Two Years Reached by Beef Trust Mandate. Another sharp advance in meat prices Was announced to-day from the various local headquarters of the Beef Trust. The wholesale price of ribs and loins in the best grade of beef reached the new high level of 16% cents a pound. ‘This is up 1% cents inside of a week and 4% cents since the first of the year. Rounds of beef were advanced to 11% cents in the best grades and 11 cents in the second grades, which {s an advance of half @ cent since Inst week, Even chucks have gone up from one cent to half a cent, Representatives of the Beet rust intimate that there will be still another advance next week. Here 1s @ comparison of the figures of the New York wholesale market since the first of the year: Pricesthe Net Ad- To-day. fimt of vance 1911, per db, No, 1 Beet— Rite and lotus. ..16%e. 12 ands ay ff Sy Heet— Ribs ‘and loins. ..166, 10 Rounda 81, Chucks ay Ri Rownd maintain against such reta’ public voice to thelr grievanc Scarcity of good cattle tn South- and West 1s the explanation for the boosting of prices made by the ors as give Chucks 4k Retail bute say that there nothing for them to do but to pay the wholesale e They fear being placed on a “black list’ which they say the representatives of the Beef Trust) te Col. C. C. Wilson, the “genius” of the wireless concern, was quickly recog- nized, as was evidepeed by such salutes as “Ah, there, Colonel” and ‘“Howde, Colonel? Col. Wilson walked between Marsha] William Henkel and his former counsel, Francis Xavier Butler, will serve two years in the Federal Prison to the Colonel's three. The Colonel wore his wide, bleck hat and a gray sult. Butler, the dapper, brilliant- minded counsel of the Wireless Com- pany, who is only thirty-two years old, withetood the gamut of abuse gamely. Behind Wilson and Butler, with his left hand supporting his head, walked William W, Tompkins, one of th cern'’s sali sents. Tompkine's right hand was clasped in irons to that of Marshal Miike MoAneny. Tompkins's physical condition 1s poor. LICHT SENTENCE FOR TOMP- KIN8, WHO IS BROKEN DOWN. Judge Martin hed Tompkin's feeble condition in mind when he changed his sentence from a Blackwell's Island term to one year at Atlanta, so Tompkins will be able to leave prison in four months. The party boarded the 1.08 o'clock train over the Penns} nia Rallroad, and will reach Atlanta to-morrow at 4% P.M PARKER GOES TO WASHINGTON TO SERVE SENTENCE, The leet of the convicted Wireless quartet, George H. Parker, leaves for MeNell Island Federal Prison in the State of Washington, Friday, Parker is aid to have $500,000 invested in Seattle real estate, He asked to be sent to McNeil Island, and Judge Martin grant- ed his request. Parker is the first Fed- eral prisoner to be sent from New York to McNeil Island, aia TENNIS TITLE CHANGES HANDS AT NEWPORT. NEWPORT, R. I., tional champtonship in lawn tennis doubles passed to-day into new hands for the first time in five years when Raymond D, LAttle and Guatave F, Touchard of New York, the challengers, | defeated Alexander and | Harold H the four year hold- in of four sets, ‘The Aug, 22—The ni Vrederick B. Hackett, scores 6-2, 64. E. P. Larned, the ew York crack, was beaten by A. 8. Dabney of New| York 6-4, 2-6, 6-2, $11, 6-1, Karl Bel New York, defeated B. P. hWangers, Canadian champ! , \6 B.C. Wright defeated L. J Hun Newport, and Dean Mat Princeton, defeated L. J. Hunt, Ne | port Hs , FIREBUGS BURN HOME. | ° | Maze Started Mysteriously in | Stable Near Brooklyn Dwell! wholesalers, This {s the annual offering. An Investigation was started to-day to discover, {f possthle, the cause of a fire that ¢ nd the residence and barn of Tony Mareno at No. 2 Ola | Bushwick road, Brooklyn, early to-day. Mareno says there was nothing in the| |varn to sthrt 9 fire and he suspects an | enemy. The barn was blazing when Mareno was awakened by the smell of smok He roused his family and, with the as- sistance of Salvatore Mungo, pled the upper floor of the house, three of the four horses to safety who oceu- | lod 4) Th HIS DAUGHTER’S CHUM,| some of the butchers deciared that| he extra high prices they belleved was ‘ discrimination of the Beet Trust Thomas H. ‘Logan, Bay State Shoe} iguinst. the people of New York ber Magnate, Tells Engagement to wuse of he, ‘old storage lnws pesned A sy the Legislature, now going Into ef- Miss Edith M,. Manning. mlniton Mantariiar’ Meats wit LYNN, Mass, Aus. 22—Thomas H. higher than those of August, Logan, forty-seven years old, million- » have already shocked consumers air hoe manufacture for ten years! who have returned from their vacations, widower, gave society Circles a sur : prise to-day in the annonncement that a soon marry. the twenty=twe a ld sehomt chum of hia daughter, M Edith Mo Manning. The wedding hen on set for Sept. 7, an the bride- vg GauBnCes, 1 18 Bald, Wl Oe ee te ee Biller Word) maid of honov Park How, Phone Deckman 4000 1) commun! other hose was burned to death |fere the flremen arrt ted to the Be. | the flames had | Ing, a frame! structure, |defense claims it will not be hard to at: | a dairyman, who has declared that saw Henry Reattle on Midlothian Pik two hours before the murder, To-day tt was announced that the defense had} | summoned him, His testimony, the pros: | ecution Heved, would bear out thetr y that Henry Beattie took the gun ot where the murder was com- mitted long before he appeared at the Owen home on the nh of July 1. BEATTIE FINDS — NEW WITNESS TO | HELP HIS CASE! Richmond Man Says He Saw Paul Beattie, Cousin of Ac- cused, Near Scene of Murder, RICHMOND, Va., Aug. 22.—A witness whose testimony may break down en- trely the story of Paul Beattie, upon whioh the Prosecution depends to send Henry Clay Beattie jr. to the electric chair for the murder of his wife, was discovered to-day. R. F. Ellington, an engineer on the Southern Ratiway, turned up with the declaration that on the night Louise Owen Beattie was murdered he saw Paul Beattie on the Beit Line Rallroad tracks within a mile of the scene of the killing, and almost at the exact spot where the gun with which the murder was committed was found. If hie testimony fs unshaken ft will destroy the narrative of Paul Beattie, whose wife and mother-in-law have sworn that he was at home in bed the night of the killing. Ever since the ar- rest of Beattlo lawyers for the defense have sought to find a weak point tn his story, DEFENSE WILL TRY TO NULLIFY HIS ALIBI. j They were confident to-day that they could nullify his alibi, With that much | of Paul Beattle's story discredited, the tack hie reliability and destroy the ef- fect of his statement that he bought | the gun for his cousin. Attorneys for the prosecution conferred this afternoon with Roland Sydnor, Sydnor this aft prise that he would be ness for the defense. expressed sur- alled as a wit- "T was surprised, shocked and in- censed when I read of it," he maid. “It must be a mistake. I have not been summoned to appear a8 a witness for the defense or the prosecution The prosecution this a non dented | that {t Was Worried by the action of the defense in calling thelr star witness, ‘Sydnor will tell what he knows,” said | Luther L. Scherer, "Let the defenso| leall him and all the rest of our wit-] neases. if it wants to. | Half a score bf deputy « erie | scoured the outlying districts of Chester. | men from whom the four remaining | tentative jurora will be en to try] Henry Clay eon the charge of| murder ind the wife deputy (Continued on & Alleged Wife Slayer; Jail and Wife and Baby of Cousin, His Accuser. (Photo Copyright by G. V. Buckworth, Washington, D. C.) 12 PAGES His Cel {TWELVE JURORS CHOSEN EDITION. PRICE ONE OENT. IN THE BELLBGY'S TRIAL: DEFENSE SHOWS 11S HAND Questions By Counsel for Geidel Show a Determination to Attack the Character of Victim of Iroquois Hotel Murder. TWO ACCEPTED TALESMEN ARE TAKEN FROM THE BOX Attorney for the Accused Fails in His Effort to Have All Those Chosen Yesterday Dismissed. THE GEIDEL JURY. tate, Mo. O71 Lexington avenue, Mo, S—GEZORGE L. DANE, songs, Mo. 81 Bast Fweaty-seventh street; jo. G08 West One Bunéred and \ver- | age Warehouse, Wo. 211 Bast One Hus- and | dredth street; home, Wo, 208 Bast One silks, Wo, 966 Bast One Buadred and Mo. 307 West ATWOOD WILL FLY DOWN BROADWAY FROM THE BRONX Daring Aipoian Plat Plans to Give| City Some Re When He A al Thrills rrives. A fitting welcome in being planned to-day for Harry N, Atwood, the Bos tor. aviator, bringing a message trom the St. Louls Pont-Dispaten to the New York World. Ho ts ex New York Thursday Atwood has sent word conditions are favora over New York fro lowing Broadway Forty-second street at After a few manoe bustest corner in t | strike out across th | Bridge for Sheepsnead Bay Aero Development ( arrangements for a at the race track Johnson will mittee, -| ATWOOD TO-DAY SPOILED BY | "RACUSE, WIND AT oecial to The Event Aug caniens SFLI pected to reach that if weather © be will wall Bronx, fol- t down to res around the w W id will wh \as completed ng reception re Commisaloner head the reception com. | GHT ing World) A strong, guaty wind, blowing from the east, kept At- wood, tie uviator, on the ground thi morning at Belle Isle, five miles w | of thie city, where he landed last night. | ‘Thar he will be unable to resume Me | Journey to New York to-day ts unocer- | tain, ‘The wind will probably not dim- | inian tn force before late this afternoon, too late to allow him to make his ached uled Might to Albany, 162 miles away. Unless Atwood can get to Albany to- night he will not be abfe to reach New York on Wednesday, He encoun- | GOSTTON (NY) RACE TRACK, Ane Jo2--An attendance of 10.0 people was estate, Mo. 149 Broadway. The jury that is to try Paul Geidel for the murder of Broker Will- iam H. Jackson in the Iroquois Hotel on July 26 was completed a few minutes after 4 o'clock this afternoon before Judge Crain in the Court of General Sessions. Long before the twelfth man had taken his seat the questioning of talesmen by Lawyer James A. Gray had indicated a determination on the part of counsel for the defense to blacken the character of the victim in an effort to prove justification for the killing by the accused bellboy. SCORES TO-DAY|:= 2s sit fense will try to prove that Geide! NATIONAL ONAL LEAGUE. went to WMitam H. Jackson's room to AT NEW YORK. steal; that the elderly man discovered him and attacked him in such a way that the boy was justified in killing Mr. Jackson in setf-defe: In ques- tioning Talesman Emmet L. Powers of No, 160 Nassau street Mr. Gray asked CHICAGO— , | this question 1200 — | | “It tt should be shown by all the evi- GIANTS— — dence in the case that the deceased met 0020 — _| hie death while stamping . ine upee the person of the defendant and while Batteriee—Brown end Archer; Amer ar gant was attempting to defend him. bas vere self from the crime upon his person, AT BROOKLYN. would the fact that the defendant, prior to the attempt upon his person, did stea ST. LOUIS— property belonging to the deceased, pre- 001 “~ | vent you from rendering a falr and im- BROOKLYN— partial verdict regarding the defendant's 1 — [mult of the crime for which he ts on trial? air, Ratteries—Steele and Bilas; Burke and Erwin Powers seamed to think that the |tered bud weather conditions since en- fuct that the accused boy was a self- tering New York State, AT PHILADELPHIA. confessed thief would, If proved, affect Atwood covered only forty miles yes-| pITTSBURG— via judgment of the evidence. He was terday from Lyons to Belle Isle, He got 0000000 —— [excused by consent. ost in the air after leaving Belle Isle After the last Juror had taken his and flew about fifty miles aimlessly be- | PHILADELPHIA— seat Ansistant District-Attorney ©. C. fore locating Auburn, where he made @ 170000 Nott began his opening address, ‘The stop, From Auburn he resumed his| Batteries—Ferry and Gibeon; Alexan- mother of the defendant, his Hetle sister flight in the direction of this city, but | der and Madden. Agnes and @ friend, who had been sit- was forced to descend at Belle Lele on| rages ei Jting by the girl, lett the court-room account of darky | AT BOSTON. w Mr, Nott bewan, They had been es CINCINNATI— the only nen in the courtroom @'l 10,000 HARNESS HORSE 41310 i. [aa % N— LAWYER GRAY ASKS TO HAVE ENTHUSIASTS ATs GOSHEN. eosrox— | oy (On eRe ‘Sieuaeae Waa’ Kal’ Winner lib wasestamai| ° * | Mr. Gray started a sensation to-day [at the opening of court. to atrelent eat) Grane AMERICAN LEAGUE. He asked for the discharge of the six Clreatt M oe jurors already aelected to try his client AT DETROIT. jane. enteen-year-old boy who was HIGHLANDERS— discharged from the employ of the ho- present at the opening of the Grand |tel a few days before the murder, on Cireult races at the historic track th! 400 — | the ground that the jurors already se non. Many of the noted horse: | OBTROIT— | lected might be prejudiced by the pub- mien Of Sle: Souin in Wer o11 — | iication in the newspapers of the fact [ance accammpanied by Mouserds of the = iT vin (that Geldel'y lawyers yesterday after- [falcase, ine Reems maa be: Eeatent io Pry shinny Reel and | Omeneny A MP noon had asked District-Attorney Whit- The kel won the free-for-ali in three ——— |man to consent to a plea of guilty to Iheats. Major Wallow wan second,! AT ST. LOUIS. murder in the second degree, and that | Major Bring thimt and Red Row fourth FIRST GAME the offer had been rejected. ; : 4 wie | ATHLETICS— Assistant Dstrict-Attorney Nott rose Bender Guard won 4,00 trot, purse ~ 2, to remark that the jury had been in- $2.00) in two heats NEO Second, | ane 0 o 0 1 949 ; structed by the Court not to read the a READ AEA ANG MINN Been ST. LOUIS 01001 g Nevepaners und therefore the pudiica- Bee saa. won we Wenn who 06001 > tlon could not affect any of them. But, fe Stat two heats, Barling: Hla Hattortes, Danforth and ‘Thomus: he ed, with some sarcasm, the pro- wetting the third heat and fourth, Mitchell and Kritenell, bition had been made of no effecs Ly ~