The evening world. Newspaper, August 23, 1911, Page 1

wren re renee ne en renee BELLBOY’S LAWYER ATTACKS THIRD papi FI WEATHER—Probably Fair To-Night and Thureday. EDITION. é “ Circulation Books Open to All. PRICE ONE CENT. The WEATHER-?P: f idl Circulation | Books 3 Open to. All.” | A011, ‘The Tress Pu One Utne’ New Tork wean NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23, Ue 14 PAGES iy Fate To-Nt FI EDITION. PRICE ONE CENT. BELLBOY TOLD DETECTIVE HE OWNED A HANDKERCHIEF FOUND IN SLAIN MAN'S ROOM Central Office Man Declares Geidel Said Talking of the | Crime Made Him Sick. SHIFT IN THE DEFENSE. Lawyers Seeking to Show That Broker Jackson’s Death Was Accidental. Part of the confession alleged by the Police to have been made by Paul Gekdel, the seventeen-year-old bellboy) on trial before Judge Crain in General Sessions for the murder of aged William H. Jackson in the Hotel Iroquois, was placed before the jury this afternoon. Detective Barber testified that the bellboy had admitted tne ownership of @ red stained handkerchief found in the slain man's roon. According to the detectives testimony, Geidel said to him; "Don't ask me about it. It makes | me sick.” During the ss-examination of the Whiness the lawyer for the defense asked pointed questions about the po-! Nee thin? degree. Before the detective went on the land an entirely new line of defense bad been foreshadowed during the ex- ammthation of witnesses. The questions put by James A. Gray of Geldel's counsel to Coroner's Phys!- clan ‘Timothy Lehane indicated that the defense would try to prove that~ 1, Mr, Jackson had tubercular under strong ex- citement, snuffed chloroform on the ight of his feath to prevent a hemorrhage. 3, Because of the hemorrhage and « serious derangement of the heart Mr. Jackson fell to the floor, striking his head on the furniture. 4, That the washoloth soaked in @hioroform was stuffed into the mouth of the dying man ine fran- tio ignorant effort by Paul Goidel, who had been fighting with Mr. Jackson to stop the hemorrhage. Just how this new scenario was to be harmonized with all the other plans made to save the boy from the electric chair was not disclosed. MORBID CROWDS ARE BARRED FROM THE COURT-ROOM, Under orders, the court officers en- forced unusually strict rules to exclude crowds of morbid curiosity seekers. Geidel was, as usual, dull-eyed, yel- low-pale, mechanical—almost trance-like —when he was marched into court and placed at the side of hin lawyers, The first witness was Harold M. Coe, No, 96 St. Nicholas avenue, the offici photographer of the District-Attorney’s ‘office, who identified photographs taken by him of the Hotel Iroquois and the apartments of Mr. Jackson and the windows of his rooms. Mr. Gray objected to the photographs of Mr. Coe on the ground that they were taken on Aug. 16, three weeks after the murder. He said that they did not show the position of the furniture as {t was when the body of Mr, Jackson was discovered. “The position of the furniture,” served Judge Crain, of these photographs, the jury will use them only in fixing on their minds the general ground plan, appearance and relative size of the apartment and the other parts of the h ."" Mrs. Annie Geidel, mother of Paul, en- tered the courtroom during Mr. Coe's testimony. She sat back near the door. Her glance met the full brown eyes of her son soon after she entered. She smiled lovingly. The boy's eyes simply opened to show more of the yellowish e margin of his balls, lot an- muscle of his face moved ob- over MOTHER SEEMS DISAPPOINTED AT GREETING OF HER SON, Was crossed by tis mother’s face ® f worry or disap parently caused by ‘ ot his greettt There were occasional murmurs from tie corridor When the court room door Was opened. A great crowd stood out tiere staring at those whose duty It was to go in and out, Conspicuous in (Continued on Second Page.) not the purpose | | | played in | brin |ward Trumbull-Smith, | Dreier residence, TRUMBULL'S BRIDE ON WAY TOLONDON TO SEE OTHER WIFE Miss Dreier and Sister Sailed as Soon as Artist Revealed His Deception. HE'S STILL IN DETROIT. District-Attorney Seeks Proof of Bigamy and Perjury From London Police. After an interview to-day with H. Ea- ward Dreter, brother of Mra. Katherine Dreler ‘Trumbull-Smith, who is secking the annulment of her marriage to Ed- Assistant Dis- Le Roy Ross of Kings County announced that he would com- muntcate immediately with the London Police to secure proof of the young artist's former marriage on which to base action on a dual charge of per- jury and bigamy. From Mr. Dreter tt was learned that his sister, accompaied by another sis- ter, Miss Mary Dreter, sailed Aug. 17 trict-Attorney | for England, with the probable intention of looking up S::ith's other wife and child whd, they say, .s in London. Two other sisters, Mrs. Margaret Robina, wife of the Rev. i.aymond Robins, who performed the marriage ceremony at the No. 6 Montag Ter. rookyn, Aug. 8, and Miss Doro- thea “Dreier, are in Chicago, Mr, Dreler and attorney George D. Beattys as the sole sources of informa- tion regarding the matrimonial misad- venture that has caused such a atir in the dignified, conservative social circles of Brooklyn in which the Dreters moved. EVERY EFFORT MADE TO HUSH UP COMMENT, Mr. Dreter and Attorney Beattys have made every effort to hush the comment aroused by the announcement that the Smith-Drier marriage notices had been formally withdrawn because of the dis: covery that Smith had a wife living. Four detectives from District-Attorney Clarke's office have worked on the case since yesterday, but they learned noth- ing of the whereabouts of any of the Dreter family until Mr. Dreter voluntar- ily told Mr, Ross what he knew of the affair to-day. According to Dreler, his first meeting with Smith was just before the mar- young artist came from same steamer with Miss r and Mr. and Mrs Drelers knew nothing about him except that h to be a member of a d necticut mily and that he and Katherine, who is also an art met in London and had become en Dreier explaned the part Mrs. J of Detroit, Smith's mother, the affair. Mrs Faxon had, he said, vis! ver son in London and found him living with @ woman under the name of Trumbull as man and wife, They had a girl baby. MOTHER PERSUADED HIM TO TELL. Faxon learned that her to marry Miss Dreier race, was supposed inguished Con- Miss axon When Mrs. son was about she determined to prevent the marriage, to pretended tilness to Detroit. U1 ony W Wh rot his mother pr and son at once mar ahead o} Dreler said, inately th ceren’ ada arrived in De his fo ed it invalid, ried under the assumed name bull. The new Mrs, Smith was pros- trated by the shock and returned imme- diately to Brooklyn. After a few days he and her sister eatied for London, ad been mare of ‘Trum- dell as he ie leaving | *¢ he! ATWOOD 133 MILES OFF, TOEND FLIGHT HERE TO-MORROW. Airman Will Land at Sheeps- head Bay Racetrack in the Afternoon. | NOW AT CASTLETON. May Fly to Rhinecliffe To-Day to Break World’s Long Distance Record. (Special to The Firening World). | ALBANY, Aug. 2%—With only 188 miles to be covered to complete his record-breaking airship fight from St. Louls to New York, Harry Atwood is resting at Castleton, nine miles south of this city, while mecnanics are equip- | ping his aeroplane with aluminum pon- tobns for use in case the machinery | should give way and the machine fall into the Hudson River. It 4s not Ikely that Atwood will at- tempt to reach New York to-day. Rep- resentatives of the airman say he has signed a contract agreeing to land at the Sheepshead Bay race track to- morrow afternoon at 4 o'clock. If Atwood had his way he would keep right on to New York to-day after leav- ng Castleton, but his managers are look- ing for reimbursement for the heavy ex- penses of the trip, and it is anticipated that an immense crowd will assemble at Sheepshead Bay to welcome the aviator. If a landing can be made at Rhine- cliffe on the Hudson and Atwood gets that far this evening he will stop there over night. At that point he will have covered 1,177 miles, or thirteen miles more than the world's record of 1,161 miles, recently made in Germany, WILL BREAK WORLD'S RECORD| TO-DAY. | Atwood has only forty-five miles fur- | ther to go to break the world's record. There is scarcely any doubt that he wil! do that within the ten-day period trom the time of his start. This is his tenth @ay out from St. Louls. By breaking | the world’s record to-day he can go into New York to-morrow with the prestige hing to a man who has flown fur- through the air in a heavier-than- air machine than any other person in the history of the world. ‘A remarkable and unexpected feature about Atwood's filght ts that the atr- ship he is using now {s the airship he| sailed from St. Louis in ten days ago. Not one of the important parts has | peen replaced. Only minor repairs have | been found necessary, At tho end of some of his periods of flight Atwood’s | machine required no attention at all, except for olling and cleaning. Since leaving St, Louls Atwood has flown 1,132 miles, His actual flying time has been 2% hours, 18 minutes. He has alighted 18 times. Atwood was up at daybreak at Fort Plain, where ho landed last night after a perilous trip down the Mohawk Val- ley. He found the early morning weather conditions ideal. There was a hazo in the air, but practically no wind The smoke from the factory chimneys as- cended straight In the alr. CHAS:G GATES |W INDE: oD O ON GOL TOSD LUNATIC LOVING ‘MONA LISA’ STOLE $5,000,000 PICTURE Paris Police Believe Man En- thralled by Painted Smile of Beauty Is Thief. PARIS, Aug. 23.—Th who nourished a mad love for Leonardo da Vinct's “Mona I cut the $5,000,- 000 painting from the frame and man- aged to smuggle it out of the Louvre ig the novel theory that has suggested | ituelf to Prefect of Police Lepine to ac- count for the theft of probably the most famous painting in the world. Although the British Government once offered $5,000,000 for “La Juconde,” as the “Mona Lisa” ts called by the French, {ta value to a thief would be ab- sdlutely nil. One might as well expect to sell the Czar’s crown m St. Petersburg Up to this afternoon not a trace of th picture or the thief had been obtained, The attendants of the where the wonderful smi conda had heen on view for five years, attracting vastly more attention. than any other painting in the Louvre, tell to-day of having remarked the freque t a monomantas GETS UNDER WAY WHILE WEATHER IS GOOD. | “This is too good to miss," sald At- wood, “Im golng to start while the signs are right.” At 7.25 @clock he got away. Heading |toward the Hudson he was soon lost | the | tn the blue haze that hung | valley, Ho said it was his tlon to Keep right on flying as long as| | weather conditions favored, Althou money had 1 offered him for a at Schenectady he decided to cut t city out of his route and passed threes miles north of it, On his way from Fort Plain Atwood was compelled to make a descent a Glen, a short distance from the start ing point. «fis gasolene tank was ing. The repairs took but a few min utes. A plen in a big wag *sing the point v s helped appe he of ay found dead in t ‘ Knapp's livery stab! when one of the men went to awaken him, Mo! was sitting In a chair and was sup posed to be asleep. Coroner Squires has been notified, but the cause of th 1s not yet known. ppearance the picture of a youn man, > it for hours w rapt a gard. During rece ¥ tor was almost in con stant ce before the p |during the hours the gallery was ENTHRALLED BY MYSTIC SMILE OF “MONA LISA." ap, cara this 1 man ge 6 was of evn ra He wa and had big blue eyes of the so-called soulful va He would Tohn W. Gates’ 's Widow and Son, Who Are Left Millions {| the tncompar ESS. GATES: | gaze at the picture as if he were com- i pletely enthralled by tho mystic smile | of the Ita tan beauty. Some of the at- tendants who : ed tue young man Aiscussec this visitor among themselves and arrived at th. conclusion that he was either {fsane or on the road to Bedlam. Now and then they noted mething wild .1d unnatural in nis ook, He never sy 4 to any one and alw 5 remained absolutely qulet whiic he #tood before the painting. While Prefect Lepino did not publicly declare that he belleved a maniac had stolen the picture, M. Hamard, head of FIFTH AVENUE'BUS ISALMOST UPSET | INAUTO COLLISION Women Cut by Flying Glass | and Bruised in Panic cape. io MEN LEAP FROM TOP. Vreck of Victoria Alone Saves Big Motor From Going "Way Over. ‘Twenty-one pi engers ina Fifth ave- | nue motor bus had a narrow escape | from death In front of the Metropolitan | Club, Fifth and Stxty-first street, to-day when a ble wrecking | automobile of the Third Avenue Ratl- | way Company banged into tt tn the |rear, forced it up on the sidewalk and turned it almost over on tts side. ‘There were fourteen passengers on top of the bus and seven Inside, all of whom were thrown Into a screaming |pante, am they feared the hig vebto |was going to turn over. Seven men |leaped from the top of the bus to the pavement and were severely bruised, ‘The women got jammed in the narrow stairway and had to be extriceted by policemen. The wrecking truck, which 4{d all the damage, was driven by Dennis Rich of No, %2 East Ninety-seaond street. He whirled by Sixtieth street at full speed, disregarding the warning cry of Patrol- man Patrick McCaffery of the East Sixty-seventh street station, MoCaffery yelled after him, “Take it easy, or I'll run you tn,” but Rich never let down his engine a spark. RAN BEHIND BUS TO AVOID!” TAXI. In turning out of the way of @ taxi- cab, he ran up betind the by which was directly behind two Victorias, be lon = Patrick Sheey of No, 46 Fulton street, Brooklyn, and Kdaward | Hubbard of No, {62 East One Hundred | and Second street, both public hackmen, Nelther the driver of the ‘bu Thomas ‘Thompson of No. 100 Hast Thirty-seventh street, nor the two jhackmen had any warning of the ap- proach of the big wrecking automobile. Rich thought he could get by without a collision, but his rear wheel caught the rear wheel of the ‘bus and swung the big vehicle up on the curb as If avenue to |the French Secret Service, uttered ths statement to-day that he has grou ‘tor believing that the fair-haired youta fs the thief and that he stole the ps ing so that he might have it aly |near him to love and gaze upon Support for the theory that Lisa" was carried away by somo one whose head had been turned by the beautiful face, was found this evening in the admission by M. Le Prieur, the Curator of the Art Museum, that dur- ing the past year letters addressed to ‘Mona Lisa” have been recelved quite | frequently at the Louvre ‘These communications were addressed in various handwritings, but in all the | writer expressed in ardent terms of ten |derness and passion his admiration for} ble tady one has g extraordinar More than been jserved show! © presence of the person ntton tn pleture Ing moved to tears or mu ne words of admiratio; n 1 oe administration of the mus as- signed @ sp wa pore Jtrait. susp t ome: thing mt t Upon the oi M. Hamard de- seriptions bh }of this pri fart an being Marquard and Speed on iases Give Giants Pennant Chance, but Tinker Says Cubs Wili Win. of the we: new pit ton to beat.” a the team we w Mona | it had welghed pounds instead of tons, As the ‘bus turned on the pavement and tilted over, its radiator and front uxie banged Into Scheay's victoria, re ducing the rig to kindling and over- |throwing the horse, Hubbard's vic-| toria was also smashed and the horse| bolted into the Sixtieth street entrance jof the park. Ali this happened in a second. Every ss in the ‘bus was shattered and the sengers inside were showered with GATES LEFT MORE THAN $30,000,000 10 HIS FAMILY, A MILLION 10 FRIENDS Justice Gildersleeve, Who Drew the Paper, Tells Evening World Con- tents of Document in His Possession. (GREAT FINANCIER BURIED FROM THE HOTEL PLAZA ‘Protected Friends And Business relatives, employees and near friends. of ten years. Mr. stocks by his estate after his death. SCORES T( TO-DAY NATIONAL AL LEAGUE. AT “NEW YORK, CHICAGO— 300 - GIANTS— = Batteriee—Richie and Archer; Wwiltse and Meyers. AT BROOKLYN. ST. LOUIS— ‘ 00004 nes BROOKLYN— 2111 Ratterios—THarmon and Bits: Rucker and Erwin, AT PHILADELPHIA, PITTSBURG— 0011000 ao PHILADELPHIA— 1001001 -t Ratteriee—Ietfield and Gideon; Stank and Spencer |glass Half of the vehicle hung over the curb, jammed in the wreckage of |Sheehy’s victoria in such a way that it |was prevented from toppling over ‘The big wrecking auto was uninjured, | |Its operator was ordered to appear tn| court to answer a complain of reckless | |driving ater | SUICIDE | IN BORROWED BED. Disponsensed and Savings Gambied| Away, Carpenter Kills Self by G Despondent after he had gambied | away his savings, Harry Libman, « carpenter, who had been dispossessed! at his former boarding house at No, 73 Eldridge street, committed sutctde by ving gas early to-day in Samui Berger's carpenter shop at No, 245 | Broome str He had beon allowed to tleep there by Berger, for whom he nad formerly worked. | Libman left @ note sayti of work and h there was not olde. peop! Roy Dews, aged elve, were fata’ * him @ Gecent bur : oy tailing wails, Bearch Is peing , to Mr, No, 985 other bodies s Detroit, war forwarded | soph W. Rurke Dead, 1 1 paeenamY : { Victim of Rinters. Nena, cin Burke, wife of Joseph apr inein ye editor of tha Maton Leland Fs New York correspondent, Vin Hospital, M 1 n yd Horoush, follow- on ght, ine had 1 onty | Joana Hom y ! sare out t having remained oor two chit and her + domph Arohivane, twonty-aie ara old, # driver, of Fifth and Jacke | _>- son avenues, was held tealay by Magis Wortd Ryliding Turkish Bathe, trate Dodd without ball on # charge of | st! a A i ‘homiotde, leadanes, * an ental a AT BOSTON. CINCINNATI— 0o190i1000 BOSTON— 0001001 Battertes—Fromme and Clarke; due and Kling Per —_>—_— KILLED IN HOTEL FIRE. Rell Boy Victim, bac Oth De in Raine of Building, 7 PARKERSBURG, W. One person ts dead, two y and the Chancellor Hotel te damaged to the ex of 850,000 ult of @ fire which started on the seventh floor here to-day and spread eo believed section was hurt ed and Mrs, World by Clause Forbidding Sale of Stocks Within Ten Years. John W. Gates left an estate of between 980,000,000 and $40,000,000 tm trast to his widow and his son, Charles @. Gates. Im addition he made thirty special bequests, aggregating 61,000,008, tee The will was drawn a year ago last spring by Judge Henry A. Gi- dersleeve, his personal counsel, who to-day gave The Evening World exclusive information concerning the contents of the document. A clause in the will prevents Mrs. Gates, her son or the Equitable Trust Company from selling any of the so-called Gates securities inside Gates did not want to embarass friends who staked their capital along with him in these enterprises by any unloading of To comply with the Texas lew Mra. Gates made a will at the same time 45 a!@ the dead financier, making the Drectse bequests, for under the law of the Lone Star state a wife has « halt interest in all property acquired by ® husband after their marriage “I wrote Mr. Gates's will a year exo last Spring, being called from my offic: to his apartment in the Plaga for that Purpose,” said Judge Gildersieeve. “It it & soung bueiness document, quite characteristic of Mr. Gates, in which he Iberally remembered ali of his rel- atives, employees and near friends. The: special bequests, sot thirty in number, range from $1,000 to amounts of several hundred thousands of éol- lara, and, I should say, aggregate more than $1,000,000, GOT REDUCED RATE FROM COM. PANY TO HANDLE ESTATE. “The bulk of his estate Mr. Gates left - |to nts widow and eon tn trust, who, to- |sether with the Equitable Trust Com- pany, are the trustees of his estate, His wonderful business sagacity wae shown by his making @ contract with the Equitable Trust Company for the ed- ministration of his estate at less: than the legal rates. and an advance pay- ment on account of the spn. oe th administration being paid to his frien President Aivin W. Krech of the Trust Company. By eo doing Mr. Gates ‘bas eaved his estate thousands of dollars. “An interesting feature of the will i @ clause which stipulates that neither his widow, his son, nor the trust com: pany shall Qspose of stocks and bonds [in various enterpr! in whtoh Mr | Gates was Interested at the time of his jdeath, before ten yeara shall have Passed. These include his holdings tn | the United States Realty Company. the Republic Iron and Steel Company, Mr and the Texas Ol] Company. Gatos told me that he feared the of these peourities might affect the |market price, and he was not going to bring any embarrassment upon his friends who had gone into these enter prises with him. Ten years hence, ho jeaid, his family would realise far tn excess of their present market worth. “In Texas there 1@ a iaw which pro- vides that all property asoquired by « husband and wife, subsequent to thely marriage, is joint property of the hus- j band and wife and neither can dispom of it absolutely by will without other the Joining, To meet this altuation. Mr, Gatos, being & legal resident Toxas, 4 will making the same hequesis waa mado by Mra, Gates. PRIVATE SECRETARY SAID TO GET A LARGE 8UM. Judge Gildermeeve stated that in a probability the will would be pro! n Texas, and ancitlery letters issues in the other States where Mr, Gates held property, He sald that he held » copy of the will tn ht At his office, ‘co, 9 Rector atrest, and that it was ao drawn that {t @eted as a conveyances of pro} ty, three farms in the Weg