The evening world. Newspaper, August 24, 1911, Page 1

ATWOOD WILL FLY FROM NYACK TO-MORROW | RR NARA A RRA AR ARR RR HN RAL IO A RAR ALARA RADDA, \ } Weather E owera To-Night or E PRICE ONE CENT. Fridays Cooler. EDITION. Cc ht, 2011, oF Pree. (rte Ne Tbe “ Circulation Books Open to All," The “reese Publishing York World), NEW YORK, THURSD AY, AUGUST 24, 1911. ~ BEATTIE’S EXCITED DOINGS ARE TOLD —— Uncle of Slain Woman, Show- ing Bitterness, Says Prisoner Raced Home With Body. DID NOT JOIN HUNT. Doctor Describes the Wife’s Wound and Quotes Prisoner —Coroner Testifies. CHESTERFIELD COURT How , Aug. 4.—Rapld progress was made by the prosecution to- at the real start of the trial of Henry Clay Beattie on the charge of murdering his wife, Witnesses tn quick succession told of Beattle’s doings the night of the tradesy and events following. Little time was lost in legal squabbling; Judge Watson, presiding, speedily settling dis- puted point: Watching Ifke a hawk, his eyes some- times glaring, Beatt!@ followed every word and move of Thomas Owen, the first witness called against him. Owen, the uncle of the n bride, was sum- moned to the stand by the prosecution to tell how Beattie brought his wife dead to the Owen home on the night of the tragedy. Owen in his tmony showed bitterness against the prisoner and had some sharpstilts with the counsel for the defense. Dr. Herbert Mann was the second witness having been called to the Owen h after the body of Mrs. Beattie had t ay on brought there. He told of t that caused her death and described a cut which the prisoner had declared had been inflicted by murderer as a “mere scratch.’ The prosecution tried to introduce testimony tending to show that the fatal shot was fired by Beattie, but the defense objected Coroner Loving, third witness, of the case that led to Beattle’s arrest FACES TRIAL ON ANNIVERSARY OF HIS WEDDING. who followed as the reviewed the investigation fn which Beattle had started out with his wife for a ride and in which he brought her back shot to death. The prisoner was calm he looked over the gruegome exhibit which was to be used as evidence to convict him. Court was jammed when the of testimony was begun, while hundreds unable to gain admission flocked about taking et two left togethe 1 Gregory “she Owen, did.” sald was dead. GRUESOME EVIDENCE OF THE TI.AGEDY SHOWN. 4 he nthe a 1 in a »mob! outing from way wir re “% baard a vol doen the ho said, “Z recog- f ag Genry Beatties, Me war ‘My God, oh, my God! They killed Louise! I ran down and because Z didn't » on the floo mt seat. ex body iy a e@ bottom of the wee so badly cramped that we had trouble getting it out of the car. ‘A ghastly recital of the condition of (Continued on Page Fourteen.) Beattle was plainly norvous to-day f&nd his aged father in solicitous mood | fat beside the prisoner and fanned him with a large palm leaf, Previous to the opening of court, father and son had inspected the blood-stained automob!! on the lawns and ns peering through the trial ows. In the | Dig throng the word was passed about that Beattie was beginning his f for life on the anniversary of the di he wed Loulse Welford Owen, whose mur the State has haled to trial, Thomas Owen, the m un ng cal >t rn At G NIGHT OF WIFE'S MURDER BY WITNESSES GIRLS STRUGGLED INWATER AN HOUR TIL RESCUE CANE Police Searched Jamaica Bay All Night, Sure They Were Drowned. WAVE CAPSIZED BOAT. Young Women Took Life-Pre- servers and Jumped Into the Water. The story of a fight for Nfe in the waves, after his power boat had been wrecked on Rockaway Shoals, was told to-day by Henry L. C, Wenk jr. of $35 Eastern Parkaway, Brooklyn. Two young women, Misses Arna and May Robinson, were with tme young man when+ his craft, the Carrie, a twenty-five foot, elght horse-power Sasoline boat, turned over. All night @ police launch, aided by searchitghts, had worked over Jamatca Bay trying to get some tidings of the persons known to have been on the boat when she went down. The police knew that p Were on the boat, but they did not know thelr names, and they were in total !gnorance of the res- cue until young Wenk to-day told the story. WHEN TENDER SWAMPED THE GIRLS JUMPED INTO BAY. There are two channels in the bay. The deeper and wider channel is in ne middle of the bay, a more shallow jchannel lies nearer to the shore, and a bar, Known us Rockaway Shoals, Hes between the two. Wenk tried to cross this bar at half tide-a performance three ons that 1s dangerous. At the top of the shoals a big wave swept over the power boat and half filled tt. The little party on board feared that the boat would sink and Wenk got t life preservers. Ho fastenea one on each of the girls and prepared him- self for the worst results, The little tender that was bobbing along behind the power boat was pulled up and the three went into tt Hardly had they left the motor boat when she filled completely. The bay was running roughly, The waves tossed the little tender about Ike a jchip, and tt was not long before the tender had to be abandoned. The young man and the two girls jumped jinto the water with only their If , | pre rs aS an ald against the sweil- ing waves. For an hour they were tossed about They cried for aid as loudly as possible land their cries attracted the attention of Joseph Warner, who was on a fisn- poat half # mile from Rockaway hn eff red for her mu and t he got them on his his fishing station, Iry clothing was provided and ne three dried out for the Dp home. | ABANDONED B89. RESCUED, TOWED TO SHEEPSHEAD BAY, In the meantime Charles Rogers of No, #5 Hewes street, Brooklyn, who was with a Capt. Edward Welgrath, on his motor boat, the Ade- laide, saw the Carrie, Tho captain headed his boat for the wreck. At top speed the Adelaide ran to the distre: motor bout, Rogers sought the mis but without succ towed and b to Sheeps- the up the oe Last Two Days of Big Sale $12 wile SEKus SUils, $4.95 THE “HUB" CLOTH CORNER, way, cor, Barelay opp. Post Oitice, Will seil to-day and Priday 1,500 Men's sults, serges, worsteds, flannels, che viots, de. 1n blues, blacks, grays and mixtures; fast colors; satin’ lined; all | sizes; worth $12 in any other store; our @pecial price to-day & Friday, Br oe SHOPPERS SEE GO FAMILIES LOSE Busy Williamsburg District Swept by a Spectacular Blaze. 13. BUILDINGS BURNED. Rotten Hose and Unruly Crowd Hamper Firemen in Hard Battle. Thirteen buildings were destroyed by a fire which started in the cork factory of H. Guriand, at No. 7% Flushing ave- nue, Williamsburg, to-day. The fire de- veloped a spectacular series of events. A huge crowd collected in the centre of the second largest shopping district on tho Brooklyn side and was held in check by police reserves from threo stations. Elevated railway service was halted be deflected to oher routes. emergency quota of fire fighter: Policeman Rudolph A. Bender was on his way home when he eaw smoke com- ing from the cork factory, which was & two-story frame building. The house was packed from“top to bottom with cork and the policeman knew that a very ugly blaze was in prospect. His alarm was quickly followed, when the firemen arrived, by two other alarms. H, Batterman’s department store is at the triangle formed by the intersection of Broadway, Graham and Flushing avenues, and the point, but a short distance from the starting place of the fire, {8 the busiest of the whole region, From the cork factory great clouds of smoke hung over the streets, obstruct- ing the view, concealing the real cha: acter of the fre and making work dim- cult for the firemen, FIRE SPREAD TO HOMES AND STARTED A PANIC, M. Bloomberg's sash concern occupied the two-story frame house at No. 731 Flushing avenue. The flames jumped from the cork factory to Bloomberg's. Then @ fork of flame shot around the corner and took hold of No, 20 Thorn- ton street—the first of a row of eleven three-story frame dwellings that ex- tends trom No. 20 to 30, inclusive, Mary Manvere, an elderly woman, was |confined to her bed at No. 20 Thornton street. Her daughter, Lucy, aided by neighbors, carried her to the street and then rescued her daughter, Elizabeth, seventeen months old. The infant w brought to the street wrapped In @ wet blanket. Hardly had the woman and hi been brought to the street \ erted that her son, Tony, aged two, wi still In the house, A hasty search was made for the boy. A policeman remem- bered seeing a little girl staggering from the house with a child and went over to @ neighboring curbstone, where he found Mille de Jonova, @ young girl of No. 2% Throop avenue, holding Tony in her arms. Both were crying. When the fire assumed a threatening aspect, the fire drill call was sounded in Batterman’s department store and 200 girls marched out to the street perfect order. Six families ved tn each house. The Clymer street, Stagg street and Vernon avenue police stations had by this time been stripped of their reserves, The policemen began getting the residents from the dwelling houses in short or- der, A paint store at the beginning of the row, owned by H. Tunsch, added fuel to the fire and aided materially in store and the All Saints Church, Roman Catholic, were in danger, They went at the fire with telling effect ana held {t to the frame buildings, which were all destroyed |ROTTEN HOSE HANDICAPPED FIREMEN IN THEIR WORK, Then the old firemen's bugaboo de- veloped, and rotten hose began to help the ff nes, Several tim the defective Jhose burst, sending the killing water into the alr when it ought to have found jits way to the doomed building, This |nandicap did not dampen the ardor of he fire Ughters, although it did serve to dwmapen & ain af sp ators, The elevat at Flushing Javenue and Broadway became a tire grand sland. Hundveds crowded to th: station in order to get a view of the firemen and the burning buildings. The crush became #o great that the police proceeded to clear the structure, HOMES IN FIRE for twenty minutes and the trolley cars that pass through the district had to Three alarms brought sixteen engines, four hook end ladder trucks and a full spreading the flames, The firemen ana policemen thought | that the big Batterman department FLAGGEDCARS «| AND FOUGHT POLICE -—TOENDHIS FE | Relative of “Eddie” Sugden | Makes Three Attempts to Kill Himself. | TRIED HANGING IN CELL. | Then Snatched Surgeon’s Scis- sors and Tried to Stab Himself. About half an hour after Patrick White of No. 413 East Sixtieth street had been landed tn a cell of the Fant Ono Hundred and Fourth street station this afternoon for standing in the mid- dle of the Third avenue car tracks and flagging the cars with his coat, Door- man Burns found him hanging from the bars of his cell, his suspenders serving for a noose. Burns cut White down promptly, and when Dr. Ritter of the Harlem Hospital looked him over he seemed to be all right, except for intoxication. ‘The Heutenant ordered Poltcoman Me- Grade, who had arrested him, to bring White forward and make an additional charge of attempted suicide against him, “I won't run away—let me alone,” suggested White. McGrade slipped his hand from White's shoulder. Quick as a wink, White dove for the door, but MoGrade tripped him up. Dr. Ritter was still in the station house, and the Meutenant asked him to examine White's neck for abrasions caused by the suspender. White stooped over to submit to the examination. He saw Dr, Ritter's shears protruding from his pocket, and whipping them gut, he lunged at his breast. Ambulance driver Doyle pounced on White and caught his arm just in time to prevent him from seriously injuring, if not killing him- self. nd me away for a good long time,” White whined, ‘or I'll kill myself sure as soon as I get out.” He pointed to a newspaper clipping containing the account of former Police jSergeant Edward Sugden’s attempt at suicide on Aug. 16, which had been taken from his pocket when he was searched. “I'm related to him, and I'm sorry he | didn't go through with the Job.” Then he told the lieutenant that he 1a daughter on the stage. “She's making a big hit and lots of hi money,” he went on, "But that's be- cause she's 80 clever, For me, I'm noth- ing but a fool, and had better end | | everyt | DISLIKED BEING SAVED BY FLUNG PRESERVER. | “Why Waste Time?” Asked Sea- man Who Went Overboard With One End of Fall. In the gentle manner of the sen Capt. Schiimbach of the Oceana to-day took Hans Fischer, able seaman, to task for carelessly conducting himself while on duty, whereof the specifications were: Wren the Occana was co day from Bermuda Fischer took a block nil tackle and essayed to attach it to a | part of the ship He had fastened one d of tackle and was proceeding along the ral in seaman fashion when he fell overboard ning in to-| lan overboard!" called a dozen | hands, Capt. Schiimbach ordered full speed} astern and the ship ehurned the outer | harbor. Then a threw a life preserver to the floating man | He ducke ‘ ou throw things mit} din an injured ¢ an't you see dot I haf der | uf der rop: handa me oudt uf der vet tugged him out by the rope lhe had held when he fell, and when \he got aboard the captain berated him |for careless seamansh -_ | Hi lectrle | BUFFALO, N. Y., Aug Martin | Boller of Chicago ix in custody here | suffering wit manta,” ac tro pacin Duateroun te Tinea, Catskill Dominion "and fa3 5 parcels at oy Oud nny Mali baggage and station, Money <8, siways open, Cheek ‘Tanica, ers. and’ avellers’ checks: The, W 4 Trane | raneau Arcates Buliteer (Wor! Budi Es ‘Beekman 4000, 0,0" Row, od | CHICAGO. oo {TO PROVE WHAT ee =e World Champion Long Distance Flyer And His Course To-Day Down Hudson a | } j irculation Books Open to All.’ | 14 PAGES AAA ARARAAAAARARARIIE RARE AAA RABANNE IY TSN RAR ne ‘BEATTIE FAILED TO JOIN HUNT FOR SLAYER WEATHER—Showers To-Night o FI EDITION. PR - —_——___—__—— — ICE ONE CENT. AIRSHIP BREAKDOWN KEEPS ATWOOD FROM REACHING CITY TO-DAY \Connecting Rod of Motor Melts and Aviator Comes Down in Nyack, 25 Miles From End of 1,269-Mile Journey. ISMASHES WORLD'S RECORD FOR LONG DISTANCE FLIGHTS Thousands Line River Banks and Gather at Sheepshead Bay in Hope of -eeing Airman. atry WN. Atwood made the following statement to The Evening Worlds | over the long distance telophone from Nyack late this afternoon: “Z am sorry to disappoint the people of Mew York, but there is ne chance of my getting away from Myack before to-morrow. Even under the most favorable circumstances my motor cannot be repaired before 6 o'clock this evening. We are just starting on it now, “It would be too late for me to make a stort for New York even if sor eee GRAM OF TO-DAYS FLIGHT SCORES TO-DAY NATIONAL LEAGUE. AT NEW YORK. FIRST GAME 7.35 AM CAuTLeTON ODAC 7.49 Av EAHQDAGS 7.49 Am PITTSBURG— + 755A" 0oooorot1t GIANTS— — pumion 8.09 AM 000000010 i fy Batteries—Adams and Gibson; Ma BtGancareet thewson and Meyers, SECOND. GAME, PITTSBURG— Genmavronn @.22 AM: gvvd0010000-1 Ns, GIANTS— — | vL000100 2 Batteries—Camnite und Gibson; Mu erniniecuitr @,AO AM quard and Meyers. wewe 13 116s AHEAD g Op WORCDS RELORD AT BROOKLYN. eo 0 0 fousecear O8O BROOKLYN— 2uu0 Sutteries—Ruelbach and A Burke AT BOSTON. ST. LOUIS— | 400000, .— | BOSTON— fates 110200 *— AT PHILADELPHIA. CINCINNATI— 00000000 PHILADELPHIA— vv0,00000 — AMERICAN LEAGUE. AT CHICAGO HIGHLANDERS— 200 0 1 Batteries—Qu and Block and KILLED | THEATRE MANAGER GULICK. | ~ NEW COMET IS NEARER. PITTSBURGH, Pao Aug 4 Prenls | Way soon Be Visible Without Ald of R. M. Gulick, owne of the y um} Theatre here, have taken step. af Gineves his body exhumed in order t may know the ca f try, died Au q n ' ax to It has ve v tha ieee satane F left a will other than that in which the top star northern cross, di and the remainder of his $60,000 8- \y coming nearer, and will continue to tate to bie housekeeper, row brighter for several weeks, could get away at 6 o'clock. My intention at this hour ts to wait until to- morrow afternoon before making the final fight. I shall not start again until everything about the acroplane is in shipshape and the conditions ‘are all favorable for landing in New York without further mishap, “Ef the connecting rod hadn't given way XI would have been in New York @ little after noon. I am pretty well satisfied with to-day’s work, anyhow. The world's record has been broken and from here on it will simply be question of piling on @ few more miles, “I do not know whether I shall go from New York to Boston through the air ov not, but at the present time X do not feo) that I shall continue the flight beyond Mew York “Give my regards to the people of New York and tell them they will ime to-morrow if the wind isn't too high.” Atwood’s scheduled landing in his aeroplane at Sheepshead Bay racetrack, at 4 o'clock this afternoon, was prevented by an accident at Upper Nyack, 25 miles from New York, where the aviator landed at 11.33 o'clock this morning. A connecting rod of his motor gave way ind forced temporary postponement of the flight. i at Atwood son River between 3 and 4 o'clock thie was apecding toward York at the | afternoon set the faces of hundreds of ‘itt He landed | thousands of people toward Riverside p near Ny-| Drive after the noon nour, By 3 o'clock arn tost efforts was|every open space from Spuyten Duyvil |down to Seventy-second street was oc- | by sightseers, Swarms we 1 would & to the Drive and Riverside Park oe Hud: 1 all the cross streets while the olght al Jersey shore were ed With sightseers, THOUSANDS LINE RIVER BANKS TO SEE AVIATOR. Below Seventy-second street on the New York side the piers and riverfront time his mishap New an hour rate of without 10k unable t m erin a MMs gre the repair work un after 4 0" The a dow Atwor he HOW ATWOOD FLEW DOWN THE HUDSON RIVER. — were 80 ‘owded as to interfere with 7.35 A. M.—Left Castleton, 9 miles |) tramic. Sheepshead Bay race track at- south of Albany. tracted great throngs from South Brook- 7.49 A. M.—Passed Schodack Land- ing. 7.65 A. M.—Pa 4 Stuyvesant. 8.00 A. M.—Pat Newton Hook, flying high over the river to avoid guste from the hills. 8.05 A. M- Passed Stockport. 8.09 A. M.—Passed Hudson, twenty miles from start, 6.14 A. M.—Pa 4 Catskill, in view of thousands Lining the mountain sides. 6.22 A. M.—Passed Germantown, (29 A, M.—Passod Tivol. —Passed over Darrytown, lyn, but not many appeared to be anxi- ous to pay their way into the enclosure. The final news that Atwood would not arrive in New York this afternoon was w in getting to the crowds and {t was ost the situation was ark defore inderstood But for the accident Atwood would have rounded out the most notable day {his trip, He had already broken the | world's record for cross country flying and was directly In the way of estab- lishing ord of covering 1,265 miles en days when he was compelled o land, FLEW UNDER GREAT BRIDGE neclitte, 1,176 AT POUGHKEEPSIE, vice from St, Louis, Here at-] Previous to his enforced landing at wood was thirteen miles ahead of nck, Atwood bad. banleg te ueaam 0 V during the morning, Starting the previous world's record, 49 A Pasnet ing close to surface of the rive 8.62 A. M.—Passed Hyde Park, fifty- five miles from Castleton, 8.59 A. M-—Passed Poughkeepsi fying under the railroad bridg 9.09 A. M.—Passed Mew Mamburg, eton, where he had spent all lay repairing his machine, he B. across the river om West Point, without a stop, pass- under the big railroad bridge at keepsie en route, He was to re- 4 at Cold Spring or West Point 1 8 o'clock this afternoon ure, sixty-five miles from start. But the eapricious weather of the 9.15 A. M.—Pasved Newburgh, M. ¥, at forced him to change A. M.—Paswe’ Cornwall, plans. Banks of clouds, climbing up rate ge ind the mountains to the west, shed y42 A, Mi—anded wt Gold Spring, re and enge 1 squally windy ac a the river ps West Point, kicked up aves on the Hudson. 11,02 A, M.—Laft Cold Sprii yd had been notified that the 1L.14 A, M.-Baswed Peeksxiil ver Bureau looked for a storm in 11.26 A, Me--Pansed Croton, thirty. | ye lower Hudson Valley during the jles from New York, 4 Ossining. tour Lat A. M.—Pa: so fternaon, decided to get to New York as soon as possible, , ‘The field at Cokt Spring from whisk he made his start at 11.03 o'clock about Mfty-four miles Gem New Yeu 11.33 A. M.—Landed at Nyack, twen- ty-five miles from Mew York,